Category: Ali Gaffari

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USAF F-35, 158th Fighter Wing, Vermont ANG, 22 May 2020 0

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U.S. arms sales to UAE draw fire from 29 rights groups

Twenty-nine arms control and human rights organizations have signed a letter opposing the sale of $23 billion worth of missiles, fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates and asking the U.S. Congress...

U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet(203) 0

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Pentagon Reveals USN F/A-18F Super Hornet Fighters Patrolling Middle East With Stealth-Spotting Infrared Sensors

Photos recently posted by the US Navy show its F/A-18F Super Hornets deployed to the Middle East are now carrying new infrared sensor pods capable of spotting stealth aircraft. An advanced infrared targeting pod...

Kuwait Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon multi-role fighter aircraft 0

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First flight of ‘most advanced variant of Kuwaiti Eurofighter’ takes place

The first Instrumented Series Production Aircraft (ISPA 6) configured for the Kuwaiti Air Force has successfully completed its first flight. The aircraft is the first to fly the Captor E-Scan Radar with Phase Enhancement...

First flight for Iran’s Kowsar-88 Yasin 0

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First flight for Iran’s Kowsar-88 Yasin

IRAN HAS flown a prototype of the Iran Aviation Industries Organization’s (IAIO’s) Kowsar-88 advanced jet trainer, now renamed the Yasin. The Yasin jet trainer, formerly known as the Kowsar-88, during its maiden flight from...

Iranian Air Force Yasin trainer jet 0

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Iranian Air Force conduct test flight of Yasin trainer jet

The Iranian Air Force has conducted a test-flight of the Yasin jet trainer, a locally-produced aircraft. On October 17, 2019, Iran showed off the jet trainer, referred to as Yasin, at a ceremony at...

The U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) 0

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Iran’s Guards commander says U.S. military presence in Gulf is ‘an opportunity’: ISNA

The United States’ military presence in the Gulf used to be a serious threat but now it is an opportunity, a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday, according to the Iranian...

Qatar receives first Airbus H125 training helos 0

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Qatar receives first Airbus H125 training helos

Qatar has received its first Airbus Helicopter H125 training platforms, national media and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have revealed. Footage of the graduation parade shows the H125s to be painted in the livery...

USAF F-22 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, Al Dhafra Air Base, UAE 0

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USAF F-22 Raptor stealth jets got 587 aircraft to back off in their ‘combat surge’ over Syria

U.S. Air Force F-22s recently completed their first “combat surge” in operations over Syria, and in doing so deterred almost 600 Syria, Iranian and Russian combat aircraft in the crowded skies there, the Pentagon...

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Iran admits to being hit by potent cyber attack

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweets ‘Incredible series of coincidences. Or, a simple chronology of a Mossad program to kill the 2015 nuclear deal’; Israel remains silent on the matter. Iran’s strategic computer and...