Tag: fighter
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U.F.C. Fighter on How to Protect Yourself from Being Swept Off Your Feet
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What’s up, jamokes! It’s Daryl (Death Grip) Daley, the baddest U.F.C. fighter in this goddam town. A little bit about me: I like punching people, and also kicking them. It feels weird being in print, ’cause I’m not a big reader, but I did once smack a guy with a Dean Koontz book. Let me…
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A traditional Russian ally snubbed Moscow’s latest fighter jets for competitors from Pakistan and Turkey
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Azerbaijan’s biggest arms supplier has been Russia but it will likely acquire jets from elsewhere. The rumored deal suggests the longtime ally is detaching more from Moscow, a defense analyst said. Russia’s answer to America’s F-22 and F-35, the Su-57, has severe shortcomings. The small, oil-rich South Caucasus country of Azerbaijan has big plans to…
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Ukraine Says It Shot Down Russian Fighter Jets And Drones As Country Officially Marks Christmas
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday hailed the shooting down of two Russian fighter jets on Christmas Eve and said “this Christmas sets the right mood for the entire year ahead.” In a Christmas message marking the first time the country has officially observed the holiday on Dec. 25 rather than…
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‘Technical breakthroughs’: Next-gen fighter pilot helmets will give US aviators training edge, airman says
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Visors that allow pilots to simulate dogfights while they’re actually flying will give the U.S. military a “transformational” advantage, a former Air Force aviator told Fox News. “When you combine the power of AI with the power of augmented reality, now you are capable of creating synthetic worlds that are living, breathing, digital worlds that…
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Iran kicks off air force drill as US sends more fighter planes to the region
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Sunday began an annual air force drill in the central part of country, state media reported, as the U.S. sends more fighter planes to the region to deter the Islamic Republic from seizing commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf area. The official IRNA news agency said 11 Iranian air…
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Air Force fighter pilot tapped by Biden to be next Joint Chiefs chairman has history of firsts
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WASHINGTON — The Air Force fighter pilot tapped to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff got his call sign by ejecting from a burning F-16 fighter jet high above the Florida Everglades and falling into the watery sludge below. It was January 1991, and then-Capt. CQ Brown Jr. had just enough…
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French Resistance Fighter Goes Public About Execution of German P.O.W.s
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Shortly after D-Day during World War II, French resistance fighters took 47 captured German soldiers to a small wooded area in southwest-central France. In the scorching heat, they forced the soldiers to dig their own graves, shot them dead one by one and buried the bodies, covering the remains with quicklime, according to a witness.…
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Zelenskyy blitzes Europe with fighter jet diplomacy – POLITICO
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LONDON — Ukraine has no permanent seat at the G7 leaders’ summit. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has already made sure his talking points will dominate discussions at the G7’s annual get-together in Japan this weekend. Zelenskyy arrived in the U.K. unexpectedly Monday morning after visiting Italy, Germany and France as part of a diplomatic blitz…
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Fighter jets coming ASAP, Poland tells Ukraine – POLITICO
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Poland will deliver four Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine “in the next few days,” President Andrzej Duda said Thursday. Poland is the first country to formally commit to sending combat planes to Ukraine, which Kyiv says it urgently needs to repel the Russian invasion, which has become a brutal war of attrition in the…