Military – The Tactical Air Network

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...]

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...]

Japan Unveils its Highly-Anticpated Next-Gen Fighter Prototype

January 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Mitsubishi ATD-X is Japan’s first foray into the world of 5th generation fighter aviation, already dominated by the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning [read more...]

A Quick Ode to the C-17

January 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

The end of November, 2015 saw the completion of the very last Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and the shuttering of the aircraft’s assembly line. For those of you who need [read more...]

Escuadrón Fénix: Argentina’s Defunct Special Ops Aviation Unit

August 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

The late 1970s and early 1980s were fairly eventful years for Argentina, marked by periods of tense diplomatic relations with neighboring South American countries, and the [read more...]

MiGFlug Can Take You to the Edge of Space for a Fairly Reasonable Price

June 3, 2015 // 4 Comments

If you’ve got $18,500 USD to spare and a valid passport, you might as well give MiGFlug a call to book the flight of a lifetime. The organization whose tagline is [read more...]

68 Years Ago Today: Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier.

October 14, 2014 // 4 Comments

By Tom Demerly for ALERT 5. When a manned aircraft approaches the speed of the sound it is thought to reach an invisible barrier. A barrier defined by physics. An [read more...]

47 Years Ago Today: The Fastest Manned Aircraft Flight Ever.

October 2, 2014 // 173 Comments

By Tom Demerly for ALERT 5. It flew at nearly Mach 7, seven times the speed of sound and twice the speed of a rifle bullet. The speed record it set 47 years ago today still [read more...]

Milaviate on Facebook!

December 12, 2013 // 0 Comments

If you haven’t yet heard, we also have a presence on Facebook. Like us there for interesting articles we happen upon while navigating the interwebs, updates on website [read more...]

Milaviate’s Hero of The Month

November 3, 2013 // 0 Comments

Military aviation is chock full of stories of heroism, extraordinary bravery and courage in the line of duty. Numerous pilots and crew over the past century have [read more...]