VMFT-401 Snipers in KAFW 2-2020

Military Aviation Photography and Spotting
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Komatsu Airport 小松飛行場 (RJNK) located in the city of Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. This airport shares between the Civilian airport for the city of Komatsu and the Japanese Self Defence Air Force. This airport spot a single 8860 ft runway of designation 06-24. Komatsu airbase houses the following units : 6th Air Wing (第6航空団) 303rd Read More ...
Nellis AFB Aviation Spotting Guide. This Guide shows the different locations to get good pictures. the timing and also the focal length of each shots are shown in the pic EXIF. Read More ...
VMFT-401 ” Snipers” is the Marine Corps only “Adversary or Aggressor ” Squadron in service. Currently located at MCAS Yuma AZ. This small unit flies the Northrop F-5n Tiger II with aircraft painted in the Eastern Bloc type adversarial Camouflage pattern. Most of these F-5n were ex-Swiss Air Force aircraft and the reason for choosing Read More ...
Meiringen Airbase Information ICAO Code LSMM Runway : 10/28 Position : 46°44’36″N 008°06’36″E Frequencies 360.875 / 130.150 Tower 268.625 / 138.050 Info 138.275 / 142.325 Arrival / Departure 143.775 / 249.800 Arrival / Departure 368.450 Arrival / Departure 143.200 Axalp Shooting Range 138.600 Ground Crew-Pilots Local Squadrons Fliegerstaffel 8 F-5E/F Fliegerstaffel 11 F/A-18C/D ( Read More ...
Spotting in Chengdu China ( CAIC) taking pictures of J-10C and FZ-7 fighters Read More ...
The Days of the Mighty Phantom is coming to a closure soon in the Land of the Rising Sun. All Japanese F-4 Phantom is currently base at Hyakuri Airbase ( RJAH) just 53 miles north of Tokyo. Currently only 2 of the active squadrons still flies the F-4. There are 2 parallel runway 21L 03R Read More ...
Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) been in the past procure both Western and Eastern bloc combat aircraft. Currently, they equipped themselesves with MIG-29, F/A-18D, Hawk, MB-339C, and the Sukhoi SU-30MKM. The SU-30MKM has the same airframe, same engines with thrust vector control (TVC), and an Read More ...
Red Flag Alaska 17-2 Detail Report Red Flag 17-2 was conducted from June 8th to 23rd 2017 involving approximately 1,700 personnel and more than 100 aircrafts from the United States, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Denmark, Thailand and other nations. The table below breakdown all the participating units, Read More ...
Komatsu Airport 小松飛行場 (RJNK) located in the city of Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. This airport shares between the Civilian airport for the city of Komatsu and the Japanese Self Defence Air Force. This airport spot a single 8860 ft runway of designation 06-24. Komatsu airbase houses the following units : 6th Air Wing (第6航空団) 303rd Read More …
The Days of the Mighty Phantom is coming to a closure soon in the Land of the Rising Sun. All Japanese F-4 Phantom is currently base at Hyakuri Airbase ( RJAH) just 53 miles north of Tokyo. Currently only 2 of the active squadrons still flies the F-4. There are 2 parallel runway 21L 03R Read More …
Ft worth Alliance Airshow 2019 detail report. Read More …
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC), is a government contractor based in Newport News, VA. ATAC operates Mk-58 Hawker Hunter, Israeli F-21 Kfir, A-4 Skyhawk, and L-39 Albatross II fighters in tactical flight training roles for U.S. Navy, Air Force and Air National Guard. Recently, they aquire 63 Mirage F-1 of different variants from the French Read More …
RAF Red Arrows North America Tour 2019. Houston TX appearance Read More …
Summer is officially in full swing for Texas and lets take a look at the activities we had for June and July in NAS Ft worth ( KNFW ) and Ft Worth Alliance Airport ( KAFW ) F-35 Activities have been heavy and in hot summer months, F-35A, B were the main aircraft we caught Read More …
Star Spangled Salute 2019 Tinker AFB Airshow Read More …
RSAF F-16 in Ft worth TX. Read More …
Ex Astral Knight 2019… an integrated air and missile defense intergation held in Aviano, Italy. Read More …
Barksdale AFB Defenders of Liberty Airshow 2019 detail report. Highlights include B52H,B2, F-35A demo, F15E,A-10C, F16C
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LIMA is an Airshow and Maritime Exhibition held every 2 years in Langkawi, Malaysia. This civilian airport have a single 12500ft runway at 03 and 21 runway direction. In the past, LIMA have attracted many foreign Air forces in showing off their military hardware. 2019 is no exception where by the Russian show up with Read More …
RAF Coningsby (GCY) located in Lincolnshire, UK is the main fighter base for the Typhoon FGR-4 fighter. Currently 2 main fighter squadron is house in this base namely 3rd and 11th Squadron. No 41 ( Typhoon Operational Conversion Unit) and 29 squadron (Typhoon Operational Evaluation Unit) also base here. This is also home of the Read More …
LIMA’19 Fleet Review was held on the morning of March 27th 2019. The KD PERANTAU, Royal Malaysian Navy’s hydro-survey vessel, was the platform hosting the VIPs for this Fleet Review. The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Yang Amat Berhormat Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, was onboard to receive salute from each of the participating ship. A Read More …
LIMA’19 : Story behind the fiery Hornet (M45-06), Pacman & Crawler Emergency Incident during Day#1 of LIMA’19 March 26th, 2019 – the first day of LIMA’19 saw an exciting display by various RMAF(Royal Malaysian Air Force) assets at the morning opening ceremony. Flight demonstration by teams from Indonesia, India, Russia, USA, Singapore and Malaysia started Read More …
Coverage for Excercise Iniohos in Andravida AFB, Greece. this Ex involve Italian Air Force TOrnado IDS,ECR and F35A, IAF F16 , USAF F16, UAE Mirage 2000 and all the Hellenic AF FIghter units Read More …
DEath Rattlers VMFA-323 visiting Ft worth TX. We caught them twice and each time 8x F/A-18. Read More …
One of the last few Grumman EA-6B Prowler was retired by the United States Marine Corps on Mar 2019. VMAQ-2 Death Jester base out of MCAS Cherry Point flew the last of these Electronic Jamming Aircraft. Mar 12, 2019 one of the EA-6B buNo. 162228 flew into Dallas Love field and she will be on Read More …
Feb 2019 Aviation Report. We have F-35A, F/A-18, F-16, C2 and lots of C130 and T38s. Read More …
I would say this is the best viewing deck for our Electronic Jamming Squadrons base out of NAS Whidbey Island, WA. Couple days a week this outlying field is being use by our Navy VAQ Squadrons training on their Carrier operations. The runway orientate as 14 and 32. When I was visiting this field aircraft Read More …
January have pass for 2019 and we are looking forward for Spring time here in DFW area. Lockheed Martin and our local units have been flying quite actively lately. Also, we get to catch some unique transient traffic here at NAS Ft worth JRB ( Joint Reserve Base) ( KNFW) and KAFW ( Ft worth Read More …