Combat aircraft
Move 2016’ was a welcome opportunity for the squadron to work hand-in-hand with its Spanish Harrier colleagues and even to join ...
Acknowledgements: The author thanks CAPT Massimiliano Buzzoni, CAPT Alex Sirni, Cataldo Palmisano and Cristina Lanzalaco for the ...
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Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar is one of the most important operating locations in the Middle East, supporting missions over Iraq an ...
OF ‘INHERENT RESOLVE’ This shot of a 2nd Bomb Wing B-52H shows just how far the Stratofortress has come in recent years. This Ba ...
C ONCEIVED IN 1969 as Russia’s answer to the F-15 Eagle, the Su-27 ‘Flanker’ has become the benchmark for all ghter aircraft o ...
debut in the Abkhaz-Georgian war of 1992-93, when Russia uno cially fought with Abkhaz troops. Of note is the fact that on Marc ...
Sharper claws Between 2003 and 2009 the Komsomolsk- on-Amur plant upgraded 48 Su-27s to Su-27SM multi-role con guration. The SM ...
T HE KOMSOMOLSK PLANT developed and produced the export-standard two-seat Su-30MK2 multi-role ‘Flanker’, which was initially cre ...
T HE IRKUTSK-MADE Su-30 family started with the Su‑30MKI for India and is now in service as the Su‑30SM in Russia. These are ult ...
CHALLENGING EXPORT PROBLEMS Even the domestically-optimized Su-30SM retains a host of foreign systems including a French Sigma 9 ...
Two stages of radar upgrade are planned. The rst involves replacing Indian computers with indigenous systems. Russia will then ...
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H AVING AIR BASES in close proximity — Bodø in Norway to the west, Kallax in Sweden in the center, and Rovaniemi in Finland to t ...
The Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland and Norway have found a way to optimize their daily training to include scenarios with a ...
anything, like just the way you talk on the radio, like ‘Bingo fuel’ and so on.’ Norway soon noticed the advantages of the CBT p ...
just in the CBT environment, and that is not that many aircraft.’ There was no need for such concern. ‘The funny thing’, says ‘R ...
countries now taking advantage. Two years ago, the CBT program began its ‘special events’, which included F-15 Eagle formations ...
Acknowledgments: The author thanks Maj Jouni Turula, Lt Col Erik ‘Folder’ Brettingen, and especially Capt Daniel ‘Northug’ Stran ...
I T’S SOBERING TO think that the Lockheed SR-71 — widely known as the ‘Blackbird’ by those outside the program — fought and won ...
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