Death of F/Sgt Ingvar Fredrik Håkansson, Swedish volunteer pilot in the Royal Air Force. Håkansson was born in the United Kingdom, in a mixed family of British mother and Swedish father (who was a navy […]
Bristol Type 171 Sycamore (OE-XSY, formerly ´78+17´ Bundeswehr/Heer) from the Flying Bulls collection, static display at Helicopter Show 2018, Hradec Králové, May 2018. The story of British rotorcraft development have started with Airborne Forces Experimental […]
Beginning of this year´s summer in Serbia was marked by a large-scale tactical exercise of domestic armed forces. A series of training activities under a common name ´Momentary Response 2021´ (Муњевити удар 2021) had started […]
We are only two months away from the Belgian aviation weekend consisting of the 42nd edition of International Sanicole Airshow and spotter day at Kleine-Brogel air base. And, as the date draws near, organizers of […]
The end of June was marked by a joint live-fly training of the Russian Navy and the Russian Aerospace Forces, being held in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. For the first time in […]
Summer has many different faces. At a time when many people are setting out to spend their holidays by the warm sea – or suffers summer heat wave in their own homes, there still exist […]
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF (c/n 967801, ex-Slovak Air Force ´7801´), NATO reporting name ´Fishbed-J´, static display during Slovak International Air Fest air show, Sliać air base, September 2012. At the end of 1961, the first four MiG-21 […]
Last week, combat helicopters of the mixed helicopter regiment – being a part of the Baltic Fleet naval aviation – performed a live-fly tactical exercise (летно-тактические учение, ЛТУ) that included a missile attack on the […]
Sukhoi Su-31M (OK-HXC, c/n 0601), Aerobatic Freestyle Challenge, Prague, June 2012. Usually, when we think about aircraft designed by Sukhoi construction bureau, combat aeroplanes are the first that comes to mind. And indeed, military aircraft […]
Last Friday, 18th June 2021, one of the Europe´s largest live-fly exercises – Arctic Challenge Exercise 2021 (ACE 2021) – was successfully completed. This year´s edition of Nordic training involved a total of nine nations, […]
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