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Tactical Airlift Ops, Canadian Style: TACAIRNET Flies with 436 Squadron of the RCAF

May 4, 2017 // 1 Comment

It’s just after lunch on a cold, dreary Wednesday in Eastern Ontario, Canada. A pristine lake with mist settled above the waters sits quietly, surrounded by [read more...]

Navy to Explore Resurrecting the F-14 Tomcat to Replace the F-35

March 31, 2017 // 30 Comments

Under condition of anonymity, a senior-level official with the Navy has informed TACAIRNET that the service intends on bringing the F-14 Tomcat back from the graveyard to [read more...]

A Bulgarian Man Just Bought an Attack Helicopter to Combat Potential Terrorism by Himself

March 22, 2017 // 2 Comments

According to The Daily Mail and The Sun, a Bulgarian “migrant hunter”, Dinko Valev, has somehow managed to get his hands on an ex-Bulgarian Air Force Mil Mi-24 [read more...]

Nightwatch: The Air Force’s Doomsday Jet

March 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s midsummer 1964 and the unthinkable has just happened. Radar picket stations frantically clog up the airwaves with congruently dire messages. The USSR has launched [read more...]

Harriers Could Gain the Upper Hand in a Dogfight by Literally Stopping Midair

February 19, 2017 // 3 Comments

Remember that scene in Top Gun when Maverick tells Goose that he’ll “hit the brakes” and the instructor pursuing him in an A-4 Skyhawk will just fly right [read more...]

How Combat Tree Made the F-4 Phantom II the Deadliest Fighter Over Vietnam in the 1970s

January 2, 2017 // 5 Comments

Imagine, as a fighter pilot, being able to see your enemy without them knowing you’re even in the area. Sounds like some newfangled stealth capability you’d [read more...]

Canada’s Next Top Guns: An Interview with an RCAF Trainee Pilot

January 1, 2017 // 2 Comments

The Royal Canadian Air Force is currently in that state of flux many modern militaries find themselves encountering when older equipment nears the end of their feasible [read more...]

Watch this Russian S-300 Surface-to-Air Missile Fail Epically

December 6, 2016 // 3 Comments

If you’re looking for a highly effective laxative that’s sure to clear your bowels explosively, look no further than the S-300 missile system. The video below [read more...]

Phantom Pharewell.

November 27, 2016 // 3 Comments

By Jan Mack, Melanie Mann, Ethan Garrity and Tom Demerly for TACAIRNET.com One of the most prolific and successful combat aircraft in history, the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 [read more...]

Watch These AH-64 Apaches Fly Through the Streets of Houston for Veterans Day

November 19, 2016 // 2 Comments

Flyovers and flypasts are pretty common in the United States. You see them before football games, during ceremonies, sometimes funerals for deceased military officers, and [read more...]

The F-8 Crusader Once Scared a Vietnamese MiG Pilot Into Ejecting Before a Dogfight

by Ian D'Costa in Vultures Row

Every fighter pilot out there just wants to fly an aircraft so badass that nobody dares tangle with it (or them by extension). But there’s a secret part of them that hungers for the fight that their jet was built for. Naval aviators privileged with flying the F-8 Crusader were given a fairly badass jet, albeit one with an astonishingly high [read more...]