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from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

Israel's 240 Fighter Aircraft Fall Just Shy of the Major Regional Power

Israel operates advanced F-35 and F-16 fighters but does not possess the largest fighter-jet fleet in the Middle East.
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

From Guernica to Gaza, Death to Civilians Often Comes From the Sky

Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can't match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in a poem, using the voice of a Nazi commandant, "Do not think yourself better because you burn up friends and enemies with long-range missiles without ever seeing what you have done."
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World news
from24/7 Wall St.
2 weeks ago

Russia Holds 4X More Strike Aircraft Than Its Asian Neighbors

Russia fields nearly 700 attack aircraft, more than four times the fleets of South Korea and India, enabling extensive Eurasian power projection.
fromThe Cipher Brief
2 months ago

Why Iran's Nuclear Program Cannot Be Dismantled from the Air

The U.S. GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator can penetrate reinforced concrete, but the deep mountain rock surrounding Fordow scatters blast effects, reducing impact.
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fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago

A NATO member just upgraded its Soviet-era jets to advanced French ones

Croatia has replaced its MiG-21s with Rafale jets, elevating its air power status in Southern Europe.
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