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Return of the Blackjack
By Piotr Butowski
The Tupolev Tu-160 is the world’s largest combat aircraft...
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A-7 Corsair II: The Swashbuckling SLUF
By Bertie Simmonds
What it lacked in speed, the subsonic A-7 Corsair II made up for in payload and persistence. It also ushered in a new era of strike accuracy, as Key.Aero reports.
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A look back at USAFE's C-23A Sherpa operations
By DR KEVIN WRIGHT
From the mid-1980s, C-23A Sherpas could regularly be seen shuttling between USAFE air bases. We spoke to former members of the 10th Military Airlift Squadron to hear how this unit functioned and its importance should tensions with the Eastern Bloc have spilled over into conflict during the Cold War
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Eagles’ Wings
What do you get if you take a museum stuck in the past, a multi-million-pound refurbishment and a punchy new name?
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Recapping the fly-off between Boeing's X-32 and Lockheed's X-35
By Gerard Keijsper
Back in 2000, the most valuable fighter fly-offs in modern times took place between the Boeing X-32 and Lockheed X-35, as we explain
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Britain's Aircraft Carrier Conundrum
By BEN DUNNELL
America, the leading western superpower, pleaded with Britain...
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Aviation News May 2022
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Tactical Fighter Meet ‘86 at RAF Waddington
Early August 1986 saw a gathering of more than 70 aircraft from from eight NATO countries at RAF Waddington for Tactical Fighter
Meet (TFM) ’86...
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Greece’s Last Phantoms
Greece is one of the few remaining operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II...
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DC-10 Tankers: Extending Airpower
By DR KEVIN WRIGHT
Derived from the DC-10, the KC-10A has supported every major conflict involving US forces since entering service in 1981.
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Aviation News September 2020
Welcome to Aviation News September 2020
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RAF retires BAe 146 to IWM Duxford
By Martin Needham
The RAF has begun retiring its four British Aerospace BAe 146s, leaving the BAE Systems Hawk as the force's sole remaining British-designed and built type
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To Kill a Radar: Analysing the now largely-forgotten ARMAT missile
By Tom Withington
Now largely forgotten, ARMAT was a French weapon that proved its worth in the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq War. We take a closer look
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Victor at war in the Gulf and Falklands conflict
By Chris Pierce
Thankfully, the Victor was never used in the role it was originally designed for, but it played an important supporting role in the Falklands conflict (1982) and Gulf War One (1991). Chris Pierce reports.
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CANBERRA SUB-TYPES GUIDE
BRITISH VARIANTS OF THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC SUB-TYPES...