2025 Anatolian Eagle
The 3rd Main Jet Base Command in Konya province is staging base for the international air defence exercise Anatolian Eagle-2025 in Turkey.
The 3rd Main Jet Base Command in Konya province is staging base for the international air defence exercise Anatolian Eagle-2025 in Turkey.
Wednesday July 16th 2025, RAF Fairford. Situated in the beautiful Cotswold area on England, where the famous River Thames begins its long journey to the sea, aircraft enthusiasts from across the world wait in line in anticipation of a plethora of rare and wonderful aircraft.
The sound of the twin General Electric J79-GE-17 jet engines on the McDonnell F-4E Phantom II are a cacophony of noise at the best of times, but when there are 20 of them in tandem then its just a sound, and a sight, to behold.
EXERCISE RAMSTEIN FLAG 2024
On October 8th 2024, the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) air base at Andravida opened its gates for aviation enthusiasts to witness the airfields contribution to Exercise Ramstein Flag (RF2024)
In the United Kingdom the Cotswolds in middle England has a reputation of peaceful, serene beauty and visitors flock to see its ancient burial mounds and historic villages and towns. But for a week a July each year the area reverberates to the sound of fast jets, massive transport planes and the buzz saw of propellor driven aircraft as the public and aircraft enthusiasts from around the globe congregate to RAF Fairford. The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) is back in town.
NARRATIVE & IMAGES BY MARK ROURKE Exercise Iniochos 2024 – Photo album & Log From April 8th – 18th 2024 Exercise Iniochos took place in Greece. The exercise has been heavily covered in other articles across the web so Pixelsnipers has elected to just show some photos from a visit to the main operating base…
After a gap of a few years the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford returned with a bang.
With TOP GUN: MAVERICK hitting the movie theaters, and with Pixelsniper’s recent visit to NAS Fallon – the home of TOPGUN – notice the different layout of the words – yeah it is important – we thought it is a good time to write an article on “a day at Fallon”.
Think of the 168th Air Refueling Squadron (ARS) of the 168th Wing of the Alaska Air National Guard (AKANG) as the last gas station of the last frontier. With a fleet of nine KC-135R Stratotankers, the 168th ARS serves not only the guard units but also the active-duty Air Force units as well as any allied nation’s units as they transit to and from the Indo-Pacific and Arctic regions.
Once again Gando air base on Gran Canaria reverberated to the sounds of fast jets as the annual DACT (Dissimilar Air Combat Training) exercise Ocean Sky opened on October 19th 2021. Pixelsnipers were there to witness the action.