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Watch: Boeing Drop Tests Starliner Spacecraft Parachute System

March 20, 2017 Boeings CST-100 Starliner to perform a drop test of the spacecrafts parachute system

Boeing is working through a series of ‘drop tests’ for the parachute system on the Starliner spacecraft which makes for some spectacular video! During the test, the Starliner was lifted View More ›

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Air Force Makes it Official – Minimum of 100 B-21 Raider Bombers Needed

March 18, 2017 B21_Bomber_Raider_Air_Force_Official

The Air Force recently made sure Congress knows that 100 is the minimum number of  B-21 Raider bombers they feel is required. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, General Stephen View More ›

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Saab 340 Loses a Prop in Flight – Yea We Really Mean ‘Loses’ a Prop!

March 18, 2017 prop-falls-off-plane

This is a very rare event in many ways. A twin engine Saab 340 with 16 passengers and three aircrew landed safely after one of the aircraft’s propellers literally fell View More ›

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Syria Claims They Shot Down an Israeli Fighter Jet

March 17, 2017 F-15I_Ra'am

The Syrian Army says they shot down an Israeli jet that was attacking military targets near Palmyra inside Syrian territory. The Israeli government has confirmed they did send aircraft into View More ›

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North Korea Condemns South Korea and the US for B-1 Bomber Provocation

March 17, 2017 south-korea-us-joint-exercises

North Korea is highly upset with the United States and South Korea for “escalating nuclear attack threats” with a “fleet” of B-1 Lancer bombers and the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson View More ›

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Air Force Tests Using Drones for Aircraft Post Flight Inspection

March 16, 2017 c-17-drone-inspection

Drones seems to be everywhere and doing everything lately and that is no exception with the US Air Force. Earlier this month the Air Force’s 412th Test Wing’s Emerging Technologies Combined View More ›

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$3 Million Patriot Missile Kills $200 Drone!

March 15, 2017 Patriot_missiles_being_launched_to_intercept_an_Iraqi_Scud_missile

US General David Perkins told an audience at a military conference that an “ally” of the US used a Patriot missile to shoot down a small off the shelf $200 View More ›

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New Marine Corps Helicopter to Cost More Than an F-35? Really?

March 15, 2017 CH-53K_King_Stallion_Rollout

The Marine Corps has a new helicopter in the works to replace the CH-53E Super Stallion. Ok, great! The Marines need a new heavy lift chopper but here is what you may View More ›

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China’s Fifth-generation J-20 Fighter Jet has Entered Active Service

March 14, 2017 J-20_at_Airshow_China_2016

The People’s Liberation Army announced last week that their J-20 fighter aircraft has begun operational service. This is significant as apparently it is their first fifth-generation fighter. While the aircraft’s View More ›

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Looking for the Enemy! The Air Force Goes Shopping for ‘Hired Guns’

March 13, 2017 F16C_Aggressor

The Air Force is facing a shortage of enemy aircraft and pilots to fight. Well, not the ‘real’ enemy but the “Red Air” adversary aircraft for training exercises. To deal with View More ›

FighterSweep Staff No Comments Air Force, Military Aviation, News
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