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Crazy footage of
#Ukrainian
Su-25s flying ultra-low over a highway. The pair is attempting to stay below
#Russian
radar coverage and avoid being silhouetted against the sky. Low and fast, in and out, ballzy flying!
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Ain't nothing like watching a Tornado GR4 ripple fire MBDA Brimstone fire-and-forget AGMs. Multiple missiles, multiple targets, single aircraft. Fantastic!
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This badass A-10 has "killed" everything and everyone, including an F-16 AND an F-22 👀 Must have been an epic dogfight!
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A slow-mo montage of Raytheon Coyote taking down drones! Coyote 2 is
#USArmy
's interim counter-UAV system... cheap, simple, and effective!
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#UAV
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The inner workings of turbojet, ramjet, and scramjet engines. Simplified but interesting. Enjoy
#avgeeks
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#aviation
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#USAF
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Milliseconds from disaster! Incredible footage of a
#NATO
E-3 Sentry "almost" crashing into a KC-135 during refuelling.
One-word review: Sheesh!!!
#avgeeks
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#News
: Japan will be receiving its first F-35B V/STOL jet in 2025. Japan is F-35's biggest export customer, with plans to acquire 147 aircraft (105 F-35As and 42 F-35Bs).
#avgeeks
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Did you know that the North American XB-70 Valkyrie was the largest and fastest bomber ever built by the United States? Here's how the behemoth compares in size to "active" service bombers/strikers in the
#USAF
inventory.
#avgeeks
#aviation
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#aviationlovers
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A B-10 with several tones of freedom flying over Nellis. Captured by the brilliant Santos Caceres. (santos_caceres.lv on IG).
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The legendary John Farley, Harrier's chief test pilot, demonstrating his unique "Farley Climb" at Farnborough '82. Slightly grainy, but great video.
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#RAF
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This badass A-10 has "killed" everything and everyone, including an F-16 AND an F-22 👀 Must have been an epic dogfight!
#avgeeks
#aviation
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Intimidating 😗 AGM-114 missiles looking for targets. The 100 lb, 11 km ranged Hellfire can make short work of most (if not all) MBTs on the battlefield.
Btw I feel AGM-114s have killed more terrorists than any other missile!🤔
#avgeeks
#aviation
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Slightly outdated but still very, very relevant. A combat comparison of F-35A and F-15EX, two of
#USAF
's latest fighters.
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#aviationlovers
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An F-16B performing an unrestricted climb to 20,000ft. Wanna clock it? 😉 It's a rockettt!
#avgeeks
#aviation
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"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds!" A B-52 pilot from
#USAF
's 96th Bomb Squadron wearing the EEU-2A/P goggles during training. The Vader style helmet is designed to protect the pilot's eyes from nuclear flash blindness.
#avgeeks
#aviation
#ColdWar
#Oppenheimer
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Did you know that during its service life the SR-71 had over 4,000 surface-to-air missiles fired at it? All the SR-71 had to do to escape those missiles was accelerate 😉 No Blackbird was ever lost or damaged due to hostile action.
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#aviation
#aviationdaily
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Size matters.
#USAF
C-17s, C-5 and C-130s on the tarmac.
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#OTD
: 20 years ago, Maj.Gary "Wolfman" Wolf landed his heavily damaged A-10 at Tallil AB, Iraq (April 8, 2003). The A-10 (. 80-0258) was hit by an Iraqi SAM during a CAS mission near Baghdad.
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#history
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From prop to stealth, the evolution of the flying wing! 🙂
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#aviation
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#USAF
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It ain't always easy! A pair of F/A-18s taking off under daunting 40 knot crosswinds. Crazy stuff.
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#aviation
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#TopGunMaverick
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An incredible photograph of a CV-22 Osprey from 352nd SOW conducting submarine logistics operations with the USS Georgia (SSGN-729), an Ohio class SSBN (most probably in the Mediterranean) (Circa April 2021).
#avgeeks
#aviation
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The difference between landing in the Air Force and Navy 😀 Or should I say between a landing and a controlled crash! Via Itsmelugui on Reddit.
#avgeeks
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#aviationdaily
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#USAF
#USNavy
#TopGun
#SaturdayVibes
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Although not classified as a stealth, the SR-71's speed, shape, and iron ferrite coated paint made it a very difficult aircraft to detect via radar. At its cruising altitude, the bigass SR-71 had a minuscule RCS of less than 10 m² 😮
#avgeeks
#aviation
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#USAF
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Check this out: A short video of B-2's unique rotating fuel receptacle - very stealthy, very Opel GT!!!
#avgeeks
#aviation
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#Stealth
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Ah! What a sight these brand new Rafales at Ambala 😻 The lineup belongs to Indian Air Force’s No. 17 Squadron, the "Golden Arrows".
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Crosswind? What crosswind? A BUFF doing what a BUFF does best. Those steerable dual-bicycle gears are something, aren't they?
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Absolutely unreal footage of an
#Aussie
"Pig" (F-111) smashing windows, roofs (and I'm sure a few eardrums) during a very high-speed, very low-pass over Evans Head, New South Wales,
#Australia
(Circa Nov 1994). You'll love the SheeeBOOM!💥
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Shoulders 😉 A
#Hellenic
AF F-16 with Conformal Fuel Tanks. The extra fuel increases range, loiter time and combat persistence as well as reduce the demand for tanker support. Range increase is in the order of 20% to 40%, depending on stores.
#avgeeks
#aviation
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With a wing area of 565 sq ft, the F-14 Tomcat was big, not THE biggest, but one of the biggest aircraft ever employed by the
#USNavy
. Here's how it compares to regular people.
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Going vertical (together). A pair of F-16As from Montana ANG over Great Fall (Circa 1989). Notice the wingtip mounted Sidewinders? This photo was taken before the F-16s were AMRAAM capable.
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When you absolutely, positively want to dominate the skies. A Swiss F/A-18C armed with 10 x AIM-120 AMRAAMs and 2 x AIM-9X AAMs (not to mention the M-61 6-barreled 20mm cannon with 412 rounds).
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#aviation
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Did you know that despite its size the F/A-18E has a radar cross-section 1/5^th the size of an F-16? A simplified size and RCS comparison below 🙃
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#radar
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HUD footage of F-15s Vs. F-15s Vs. F-4s - the twist and turns of WVR aerial combat at its best. Remember, when BVR missiles fail, it all boils down to this!
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#aviationdaily
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When you absolutely, positively want to dominate the skies. A Swiss F/A-18C armed with 10 x AIM-120 AMRAAMs ans 2 x AIM-9X AAMs (not to mention the M-61 6-barreled 20mm cannon with 412 rounds).
#avgeeks
#aviation
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Eurofighter Typhoon's "bumpy" HMSS 😉 The helmet allows the pilot to look at multiple targets, lock on to them, and prioritize them using voice command! Like the F-35's HMDS, the Eurofighter's HMSS allows the pilot to see targets through the body of the aircraft! 1/2
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A pack of Indonesian F-16s. Action figures sold separately 😉
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With 2,184 examples in "active" service, the F-16 will remain the world's most prolific jet fighter in 2023. Here's
@FlightGlobal
Magazine's latest top ten combat aircraft list.
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Simply outstanding 😍 A French Dassault Rafale captured by the incredible mario_de_pian (on Instagram).
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Shoulders 😉 A Hellenic AF F-16 with Conformal Fuel Tanks. The extra fuel increases range, loiter time, and combat persistence while reducing the demand for tanker support. Range increase is in the order of 20% to 40%, depending on stores.
#avgeeks
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A BLU-109 "Bunker Buster" undergoing testing. The 25mm thick steel casing enables the bomb to penetrate 4-6 ft of reinforced concrete! As you can see, the BLU-109 goes through concrete like a hot knife through butter. Incredible weapon.
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From P-51 to F-22: 60 years of American fighter cockpit evolution in one photo.
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There is nothing like watching a carefully choreographed, precisely piloted flyby of "22" F-14s over NAS Oceana! Footage from March 10, 2006, marking the end of Turkey's combat deployment.
#avgeeks
#aviation
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#aviationdaily
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#Tomcat
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Fishing for Christmas presents? 😀 Navy recovering the F/A-18E that was "blown off the deck" of USS Harry S.Truman (CVN-75) due to bad weather. The aircraft was recovered from a depth of 9,500 ft from the Mediterranean.
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#aviation
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Not a pound for air to ground: the F-15 of my childhood dreams. I'll be sad to see it go...
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#ColdWar
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Presenting ASW Sonobuoy deployment procedure AFTER impacting water. I always thought
#sonobuoys
were simple cylinders with a few hydrophones, but this video opened my eyes to the sophisticated engineering involved.
#AvGeek
#Aviation
#Navy
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An Indonesia Air Force C-235/CN-295. Action figures sold separately 😉
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#aviationlovers
#Indonesia
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Did you know that the simple M206 flare used by aircraft like the A-10, C-130 & F-16 costs $35? In comparison, the advanced decoy flares developed for the F-35 cost a whopping $3,000 EACH! A 1000% difference in price!
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#aviationlovers
#MoneyHeist
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Vintage! Japan said its phinal pharewell to Phantoms in November 2020, after 48 years of service. Forty-eight! A lifetime. Photo by Katsuhiko Tokunaga.
#avgeeks
#aviation
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#Japan
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Did you know that the B-52 was due for retirement in 1996? Since then, the might BUFF has seen its retirement date pushed successively back to 2000, 2003, 2040, and now 2050! This photo was taken during the 1991 Gulf War, a few years before the 'original' retirement year!
#avgeeks
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An A-10 Warthog coming in for a landing on a highway in Michigan. Some real seat-of-the-pants flying and readiness training here. Btw did you know that the
#USAF
is planning to retire its last A-10 in 2028? 😔 The end is near for the mighty Hog.
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
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A head-on view reveals the complex curvatures of this Fulcrum's intake/nozzle area - tin bending at its finest.
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#aviationlovers
#Poland
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A size comparison of Dassault jet fighters (new and old). Which one of these French beauties is your favourite?
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#France
#Dassault
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At one point, the F-15 Eagle shared its production line with the older F-4 Phantoms at McDonnells' factory at St. Louis, Missouri. Two greats together under one roof, eh!
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
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Mirroring! A V-22 Osprey from JGSDF's 1st Helicopter Brigade at JGSDF Camp Kasumigaura in Kasumigaura, Ibaraki. Japan is the only other country in the world, besides the United States, to operate the type.
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#Japan
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A Warthog driver getting ready to roll. Sadly, such sights will become increasingly rare, as the
#USAF
will likely retire all its A-10s over the next five to six years.
#avgeeks
#aviation
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A very interesting survey of pilots rating the F-35's performance against the F-15, the F-16, and the A-10.
I believe it's from 2016 via
@Heritage
Foundation.
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#FromTheArchives
#USAF
#USNavy
Don't shoot the messenger!
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A "Ghostrider" pummelling an island with Bushmaster 30mm rounds is the best video you'll see today! The surgical firepower of this fourth-generation battleplane (AC-130J) is unbelievable!
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#aviationlovers
#SOF
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This image highlights two of the
#USNavy
's latest capabilities: the MQ-25A unmanned tanker (which remains in testing) and the E-2D's newly added ability to refuel in flight, which will enable the E-2D to go further, and stay on station for longer.
#avgeeks
#aviation
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Hello Raider! The B-21, the world’s second stealth bomber, made its maiden flight today at
#Northrop
's facility at the Air Force's Plant 42 in Palmdale, California (November 10, 2023).
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#aviation
#aviationdaily
#aviationlovers
#news
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If artillery could fly, they'd call it Cobra 😉 A fantastic shot of a Taiwanese AH-1 by the fantabulous virgo_avgeek.cck (on Instagram).
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationlovers
#Taiwan
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Unit price of Sidewinder, (AMRAAM, and HARM missiles) as per US DoD's official 2021 Fiscal Year budget document. Shooting down em balloons ain't cheap 😀 Not to mention F-22's operating costs, and associated expenses. 1/2
#avgeeks
#aviationlovers
#ChineseSpyBalloon
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Let's race! An F-5N next to an F/A-18F at "TopGun" NAS Fallon.
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#aviation
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At 62 m² the Sukhoi Su-30’s wing area is twice that of an F-16. It also has an empty weight of 17,000 kg, the same as that of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber of
#WWII
! It's ginormous...
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationlover
#aviationdaily
#Indonesia
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The beauty that is an SR-71's cockpit. Notice that every control surface is designed to be used with bulky pressure suit gloves! And clean too👌
#avgeeks
#aviation
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#USAF
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Here's a photo of a M61A1 20mm cannon mounted on the outboard side of the right engine air inlet. Can you guess the aircraft? 😉
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#aviationlovers
#QuestionOfTheDay
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Absolutely amazing footage of a German Air Force F-104 Starfighter during Zero-Length Launch (ZELL) testing in the 1950s.[Audio German].
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#Luftwaffe
#Classic
#ColdWar
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A cracking view of a Mitsubishi F-2, aka "Viper Zero." Did you know that the F-2 was the world's first operational fighter to feature an AESA radar?
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationlovers
#Japan
#Japanese
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The best air-to-air loadout of its day! An
#RAF
F-4 Phantom showboating.
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#aviationlovers
#ColdWar
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The Lockheed F-22 Raptor is the world's first (and in many ways the only) production fighter with a genuine supersonic cruise capability, i.e., the ability to fly supersonic without using afterburner for sustained periods. 1/2
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#OTD
: 40 years ago, a
#USAF
KC-135 saved an F–4E from crashing into the Atlantic by actually "towing" the fighter with the tanker’s refuelling boom (Sept 5, 1983). Yup! No kidding. 1/3
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
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Sizing up some MiGs! To put this into perspective: the 23 meter long MiG-31 (at the bottom) weighs approximately seven and a half times more than a 9.75 meter long, fully loaded MiG-9 (at the top).
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#aviationlovers
#Russia
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Did you know that in the 1980s, Soviet doctrine advocated sending a staggering force of 100 Tu-22s and Tu-16s bombers against a "single" American aircraft carrier? 1/2
#avgeeks
#aviation
#aviationdaily
#ColdWar
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