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Boeing unveiled a new version of F-15 called Silent Eagle, it’s a improvised stealth version of F-15 Strike eagle. F-15 is a world-class fighter aircraft. Continuous avionics upgrades could keep it competitive with super-fighters like the F-22. But the F-22’s distinct advantage is that the airframe was designed to be stealthy from the start. While Boeing has done a few things to the F-15 airframe to reduce its radar return (submerged weapons carriage, an exportable radar-absorbent material coating on the airframe, and outward-canted fins,) it’s still a decidedly non-stealthy airplane. It’s still not quite a fifth-generation fighter, but it’s not intended to be. For instance, the F-15SE is not going to slip stealthily into defended airspace and wipe out a surface-to-air missile battery. That’s still the job of the all-aspect stealthy F-22 or B-2. Boeing optimized the F-15SE to reduce the aircraft’s head-on radar cross section. That’s not going to fool a ground-based SAM radar, b...

After a delay of almost five years, India's largest warship aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya today reached its home base Karwar in Karnataka. The long-awaited $2.3 billion aircraft carrier had started its voyage towards India from Russia after it was inducted formally on 16 November there by Defence Minister AK Antony. The largest warship in our inventory reached Karwar, which is its home base and developed to berth a vessel of this size, navy officials said in New Delhi. The aircraft carrier will now go through the process of getting inducted and be made fully operational as the Indian Navy pilots train to operate from it, they said. The aircraft carrier is expected to take at least three to four months to get integrated in the force, they said. With Vikramaditya, for the first time in over two decades, the Indian Navy has two operational aircraft including the aging INS Viraat, which is likely to be decommissioned in the next few years. Vikramaditya was earlier scheduled t...

Aircraft spotters outside Zhukovshy airbase spotted something very stunning, the new paint scheme of PAK FA aka T 50. Usually, the Russian stealth fighter prototypes are painted with boring grey scheme. This time the spotters were treated with dual-tone teal green and black commonly seen on Russian Air Force Aircraft, the combination leans closer towards blue which is perfect over Russian skies. Aviationist DAVID   CENCIOTTI remarked the new colour scheme on the T-50 as the Shark Camouflage, calling it stunning and remarked that the White Tip Longimanus shark found typically in the Red Sea inspired the scheme. T-50 seen from a distance looks like a rhomboidal shaped aircraft and appears smaller than the actual aircraft. I usually find Russian Aircraft camouflage scheme very interesting and beautiful. I would love to hear your thoughts on the new paint job. SOURCE :  http://www.defenceaviation.com