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Preflight 12/15/2013

December 15, 2013 // 0 Comments

France Unable to Win Brazil Fighter Contract French defense contractor Dassault Aviation is set to lose out on the FX-2 $4B US contract for a 36 multirole fighter jets to [read more...]

Preflight 12/12/2013

December 12, 2013 // 0 Comments

Iraqi Air Force to Purchase 24 KAI T-50s The Iraqi government has agreed to a deal with the South Korean defense contractor Korea Aerospace Industries worth over $1.1B USD to [read more...]

Check out This Awesome Newly-Released Footage of Russian MiG-29SMTs in Action

by Ian D'Costa in The Ready Room

This fantastic video gives you a brief glimpse of what the view is like from inside the cockpit of a Russian MiG-29SMT while the pilot fires the Fulcrum’s 30 mm Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1 autocannon (at the 0:07 and 0:14 marks), and what seem to be unguided rockets at the very beginning of the video. The cannon’s muzzle is positioned [read more...]