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PLAAF J-8D deploying drag chute on landing

J-10C Vigorous Dragon (Firebird) of the PLAAF

United States F/A-18 Super Hornets and Greek F-16 Fighting Falcons conduct air-to-air training over the Ionian Sea in Greece as a part of Neptune Strike 2022.

F-22 Raptors posing for a photo op

J-8H carrying the PL-11 semi-active radar-homing MRAAM

SR-71A taking off with afterburner RAF Mildenhall 1983

Hellenic Air Force F-16 Vipers hugging the deck and ripping it up, or as the Greeks would say, cutting the grass.

Twin seat trainer version of Shenyang F-6 Farmer of Pakistan Air Force

BAC TSR-2 (XR219) in powered flight

Of this model's three produced airframes, the XR219 was the only one to ever fly.
While the XR220 and XR222 are preserved at Cosford RAF Museum and Duxford Imperial War Museum respectively, unfortunately the XR219 did not survive the political processes.

Stay tuned for more about this aircraft!

Simulated dogfight between 2 F-15 Eagles

Iraqi Lieutenant Zuhair Daoud From squadron 84 with a Russian technician at the former Qadisiyah base with his Mig-25 aircraft .

Iraqi fighter Mushtaq Talib and his MiG-25 in squadron 96 in 1998.

Su-34 VTOL helicopter edition

It’s Tomcat Tuesday boys.

Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder in a four ship formation

Squadron Leader Mervyn Leslie Middlecoat briefing Field Marshal (self proclaimed) Ayub Khan about AIM-9B Sidewinder missile equipped on newly inducted F-104 Starfighter weapon system.

In the late 1950s, the USSR introduced its first SAMs which made high-altitude bombers such as the EE Canberra very vulnerable. The British felt that the most appropriate response to this threat was a strike aircraft able to carry nuclear ordnance, Mach 1.2 capable on deck and Mach 2 at altitude, with STOL or VTOL performance

What da tomcat doing 😳