combat aircraft
Right top to bottom: A MiG-29KUB performed a solo demonstration during the public display at Exercise ‘Marine Ace’. An Il-38N ‘M ...
The French Air Force remains committed to Opération ‘Barkhane’ in the Sahel region of Africa, with its strength concentrated at ...
F RANCE HAS MAINTAINED a quiet, yet important, counter- insurgency operation in Africa’s Sahel region since August 2014 under Op ...
and military ights. Some sustain the base, but the bulk is distributed to French settlements in the Sahel, including Ouagadoug ...
A MILITARY HUB In 2017, Niamey saw 3,000 aircraft movements and received more than 45,000 passengers and 6,000 tons of freight. ...
replaced by the Airbus A330 Phoenix. They are also lighter than the C-135FRs and consume less fuel, allowing for a greater paylo ...
Above: A Mirage 2000C pilot climbs into the cockpit for a close air support mission. http://www.combataircraft.net // September ...
tactical reconnaissance requirement in mind, the crews take a digital camera on missions as a useful point-and- shoot backup. Ar ...
SAILORS AT LOW TIDE By the end of April 2017, the French Navy’s Flottille 23F maintained a semi-permanent Atlantique 2 detachmen ...
H AVING SURVIVED THE rather intense two-week interview process required for acceptance into the U-2 ‘Dragon Lady’ program, I ret ...
its performance. All study of the manual had to be conducted behind the cypher- locked squadron doors. Paralleling these studies ...
rarely thought about in aircraft with conventional landing gear. Both IPs had warned me that there were two distinctly di erent ...
back seat: ‘T+10 on speed will set you free’. I thrashed on the controls, attempting to maintain the centerline and applying exc ...
I turned eastward, looking down on the spider’s web of airliner contrails nine miles below as I headed for Oroville Dam, my desc ...
up speed, keeping in mind the 241ft turning radius and planning well ahead for turns. I soon got the feel of the boosted brakes, ...
but frozen, requiring massive amounts of force to initiate movement around any axis of flight. I deployed the speed brakes and l ...
the instrument panel — piloting and dead-reckoning were accomplished by manual control of the autopilot along the route. INS gui ...
I N FEBRUARY 2016, Croatia became the second country after Tunisia to acquire excess Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warriors from the US Army ...
http://www.combataircraft.net // September 2018 99 98-101 Croatia's Warriors C.indd 99 19/07/2018 12:17 ...
intended target and hand it over to field artillery for engagement. Depending on the mission, the OH-58D can be armed with any c ...
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