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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
At the turn of May and June, the Europe´s biggest and most complex air and missile exercise – At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield 2021 – was held at the Atlantic Ocean. The event was led by Naval […]
On 9th June 2021, during a ceremony being organized at Batajnica air base, four MiG-29 fighters were officially taken over by the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence (Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздухопловна одбрана Војске Србије). […]
´Aviadarts-2021´ competition – being a part of annual International Army Games – has just completed its all-army stage. Final national phase of that live-fly contest was organized between 21st May and 5th June at Dyagilevo […]
25th May 2021 marked exactly 45 years since the first flight of Boeing E-3 Sentry. And that makes a perfect occasion to tell the story of this iconic ‘guardian of the skies’. Origins of the […]
On 25th May 2021, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has informed about deployment of three strategic, nuclear-capable and long-range Tu-22M3 bombers (NATO reporting name: Backfire) to Syria. It is the very first […]
On 21st May 2021, the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence (Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздухопловна одбрана Војске Србије) has officially retired their MiG-21 fighters (NATO reporting name: Fishbed). A sentimental goodbye to this legendary aircraft, […]
On 5th May 2021, Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74 (74th Tactical Wing), commonly known as the ´Bavarian Tigers´, has celebrated its 60th anniversary. Formerly known as Jagdgeschwader 74 (74th Fighter Wing), the unit was founded in 1961, […]
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