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By WARREN E THOMPSON 14th September 2022

… its first operational unit, the 83rd Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS) of the USAF’s Air Defense Command, at Hamilton … The first assignment for the 476th was to fly combat air patrol missions, armed with the M61A1 20mm cannon and four … top, I glanced down at my airspeed indicator and it read 30 knots!  I was barely moving.  The sky was a dark …

By Vladimir Trendafilovski 5th August 2022

… base’s proximity to the front line. The unit’s fixed-wing squadron had one An-2T Colt transport, two An-26 Curl transports and two Be-12 Mail amphibious maritime patrol aircraft. The latter came in two versions – Be-12PL … by Colonel Ihor Bedzay, was shot down by a Crimea-based Su-30 fighter at the mouth of the Danube near Vylkove, about 25 …

By Alan Warnes 21st June 2022

An initial glimpse of some of the aircraft on static display at the ILA Berlin Air Show on June 21, the day before the event officially opened.

By Babak Taghvaee 20th October 2022

… of the exercise’s combat phase, 335 Mira and 336 Mira (Squadron) Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Block 52Ms flew from their … missions with the exception of 338 Mira, the last Greek squadron operating McDonnell Douglas F-4E AUP PI-2000s … while at sea. Ten of these fast jets flew daily combat air patrol missions over the Black Sea, supported by two 4 …

By JAN TEGLER 13th October 2022

… Anderson was a made a flight leader in the 363rd Fighter Squadron, flying D and later Q-model Airacobras as the group … wingman were tasked with flying a coastal defence patrol over San Francisco Bay. “This guy out there on my wing … dagger-stabbed skull emblem of the 363rd Fighter Squadron which appeared on the doors of ‘Bud’s’ P-39 was in …

By Dave Allport 21st July 2022

… to every military utilizing them.” Yoav Tourgeman, IAI VP and ELTA CEO, said: “The special mission aircraft … carried by a high-performance business jet. MPA (Maritime Patrol Aircraft) equipped with high performance AESA radar, …

By ANDREW THOMAS 5th July 2022

… shipping protection units, the Hudson-equipped 233 Squadron formed a fighter flight with the Blenheim Mk.If in … outfit took off eastwards on the 18th for an offensive patrol. Their objective was a point some 90 miles (144km) … – in machines lacking wireless and floatation gear. As 233 Squadron pioneered the Blenheim as a ‘coastal fighter’, four …

By Tom Kaminski 12th September 2022

… first time when AC-130Js from the 73rd Special Operations Squadron (SOS) arrived in Afghanistan in June 2019. The US … to Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand by October 30, 1968. The final delivery occurred in December of that … maritime surveillance aircraft and the Cyclone-class patrol vessel USS Monsoon (PC 4). The AC-130W engaged targets …

By TONY FAIRBAIRN 26th June 2022

… exercises. The US Navy was represented in the form of VP-8 with P-3B Orions, with spares trucked in by a C-141 from … in by C-160 Transall. From the UK came RN Sea Kings of 814 Squadron, Nimrods from the Kinloss Wing, and a couple of … operational flight was well over 22 hours. The standard patrol length against Soviet ‘boomers’ (a term we used when …

By Joseph Galea Debono 28th June 2022

… her two fighter squadrons converted from Fulmars: 806 Squadron exchanging them for Martlets and 800 Squadron taking … reserve. Each carrier would provide its own defence air patrol. Victorious was fitted with the Type 798 radar, which … the convoy suffered the last air attack of the day when 30 Ju 88s and seven He 111s swooped in at dusk. The Ju 88s …

By Igor Bozinovski 27th July 2022

… and US Army Europe’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment Engineering Squadron conducted the Dragoon Guardian 17 exercise at … Romania, where they are currently performing Combat Air Patrol (CAP) missions on behalf of NATO. As the main force in … the Fort Hood/Texas-based 7th Air Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron ‘Palehorse’, and six USAF A-10C Warthogs from …

By DARREN HARBAR 22nd September 2022

… air controller flying with the 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron (21st TASS) during 1966. Shona continued: “His … was then assigned to the Northern Regional Army Aviation Squadron out of Okadama on the island of Hokkaido. Retired … the Bird Dog to its civilian auxiliary – the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) – in 1982. Officially struck off charge with …

By Frédéric Lert 1st August 2022

… Djibouti International Airport – which hosts one fighter squadron, a transport squadron and an Aviation Légère de … The Puma offers a range of approximately 150nm, with 30 minutes of playtime, and training very often focuses on … by day and by night. It is used to conduct some maritime patrol and search-and-rescue (SAR) operations at sea, with a …

By Joe Campion 13th June 2022

… F/A-18C Hornets – assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 (VMFA-323) ‘Death Rattlers’ arrived in Europe on … (BuNo 170272) from Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352 (VMGR-352) ‘Raiders’. Using the callsign ‘MAZDA … NATO-led enhanced Air Policing (eAP) and combat air patrol (CAP) missions over the region, while also training …

By Matthew Willis 4th June 2022

… The dramatically updated Nimrod MRA4 maritime patrol aircraft was axed, just at the point where its …