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RAF Tornados involved in "marathon" seven-hour mission to defend US and...

RAF Tornado GR4s from 617 “The Dambusters” Squadron, belonging to the 904 Expeditionary Air Wing at Kandahar, have helped to defend US and Afghan forces from an insurgent attack in Helmand province, as...

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In Afghanistan, EA-6B Prowlers to be replaced by Beechcraft King Airs capable...

The US Army is using a brand new technology that is installed into its Beechcraft King Air aircraft deployed in the skies of Helmand Province Afghanistan, that can jam and intercept insurgent...

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Marine Attack Squadron loses eight Harrier jets in worst U.S. air loss in one...

On Friday Sept. 14, at around 10.15 p.m. local time, a force of Taliban gunmen attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand Province, the main strategic base in southwestern Afghanistan. About 15 insurgents (19...

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Commanding Officer of the Harrier squadron decimated at Camp Bastion among...

The Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 211 “Avengers” that was decimated on Friday Sept. 14, when a force of insurgents attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand, has not only lost two Marines and eight of the ten...

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Reaper drone and Apache helicopter involved in the Camp Bastion battle that...

Further details of the attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan by a squad of 15 Taliban fighters on Friday 14. Sept, that took out several US Marine Corp Harriers with the loss of two Marines including...

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Impressive: huge Merlin helicopter eaten by C-17 cargo

After flying more than 18,000 hours in Afghanistan, moving more than 7,900 tonnes of kit and stores and transporting over 130,000 personnel since 2009, RAF Merlin helicopters have finished their...

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[Photo] CH-53E Super Stallion at night in Afghanistan

The following image shows a lonely CH-53E Super Stallion assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 462 (HMH-462) on the ground, during an operation at Forward Operating Base Price, Helmand province,...

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[Photo] Tidal Wave of Sand and Dust approaching Camp Bastion in Afghanistan

An interesting image of Camp Bastion eerily still as a sandstorm approaches one of the main strategic bases in Afghanistan. As already explained, sandstorms move extremely fast and can completely...

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RAF Tornados involved in "marathon" seven-hour mission to defend US and...

RAF Tornado GR4s from 617 “The Dambusters” Squadron, belonging to the 904 Expeditionary Air Wing at Kandahar, have helped to defend US and Afghan forces from an insurgent attack in Helmand province, as...

View Article


In Afghanistan, EA-6B Prowlers to be replaced by Beechcraft King Airs capable...

The US Army is using a brand new technology that is installed into its Beechcraft King Air aircraft deployed in the skies of Helmand Province Afghanistan, that can jam and intercept insurgent...

View Article

Marine Attack Squadron loses eight Harrier jets in worst U.S. air loss in one...

On Friday Sept. 14, at around 10.15 p.m. local time, a force of Taliban gunmen attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand Province, the main strategic base in southwestern Afghanistan. About 15 insurgents (19...

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Commanding Officer of the Harrier squadron decimated at Camp Bastion among...

The Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 211 “Avengers” that was decimated on Friday Sept. 14, when a force of insurgents attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand, has not only lost two Marines and eight of the ten...

View Article

Reaper drone and Apache helicopter involved in the Camp Bastion battle that...

Further details of the attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan by a squad of 15 Taliban fighters on Friday Sept. 14, that took out several US Marine Corp Harriers with the loss of two Marines including...

View Article


Impressive: huge Merlin helicopter eaten by C-17 cargo

After flying more than 18,000 hours in Afghanistan, moving more than 7,900 tonnes of kit and stores and transporting over 130,000 personnel since 2009, RAF Merlin helicopters have finished their...

View Article

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[Photo] CH-53E Super Stallion at night in Afghanistan

The following image shows a lonely CH-53E Super Stallion assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 462 (HMH-462) on the ground, during an operation at Forward Operating Base Price, Helmand province,...

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[Photo] Tidal Wave of Sand and Dust approaching Camp Bastion in Afghanistan

An interesting image of Camp Bastion eerily still as a sandstorm approaches one of the main strategic bases in Afghanistan. As already explained, sandstorms move extremely fast and can completely...

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RAF Tornados involved in "marathon" seven-hour mission to defend US and...

RAF Tornado GR4s from 617 “The Dambusters” Squadron, belonging to the 904 Expeditionary Air Wing at Kandahar, have helped to defend US and Afghan forces from an insurgent attack in Helmand province, as...

View Article


In Afghanistan, EA-6B Prowlers to be replaced by Beechcraft King Airs capable...

The US Army is using a brand new technology that is installed into its Beechcraft King Air aircraft deployed in the skies of Helmand Province Afghanistan, that can jam and intercept insurgent...

View Article

Marine Attack Squadron loses eight Harrier jets in worst U.S. air loss in one...

On Friday Sept. 14, at around 10.15 p.m. local time, a force of Taliban gunmen attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand Province, the main strategic base in southwestern Afghanistan. About 15 insurgents (19...

View Article

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Commanding Officer of the Harrier squadron decimated at Camp Bastion among...

The Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 211 “Avengers” that was decimated on Friday Sept. 14, when a force of insurgents attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand, has not only lost two Marines and eight of the ten...

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