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Airbus Defence & Space has delivered the last of nine Lockheed P-3 Orion anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft it has upgraded for the Brazilian air force.The final modernized aircraft has been delivered to the airforce base in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil.

In addition, work was carried out on the airframes and Rolls-Royce T56 powerplants to prolong the P-3’s operational life “for many years to come”.Brazil will use the modernised aircraft to perform ASW, maritime patrol, search and rescue and economic exclusion zone enforcement missions.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei presiding over joint graduation ceremonies for the cadets and midshipmen of Iranian Military, Naval, and Air Force academies; Tehran, 17 November 2014

Photos - Mehr

Airstrike against ISIS Bunker in Iraq



Kurdish HPG fighters ambush ISIS soldier on Mount Sinjar 

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Photos - Chinese Weibo

Vietnamese Su -30MK2V make a rare appearance during the joint Army and Air Force co-ordination exercise.

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds perform during the 2014 Nellis Air Force Base Open House on November 8, 2014. The Thunderbirds fly in F-16C Fighting Falcons and are assigned to the 57th Wing at Nellis AFB in Nevada.

Islamic State has claimed the beheading of 26-year-old American aid worker Peter Kassig



Probable Location where this took place 

@Raqqa_SI

Go locating British Pakistani origin Jihadi John from video images.

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Village of Tell Dabiq on GM






Jihadi John leads mass beheading of Syrian Soldiers in new new war crimes


Video released in response to recent reports of Jihadi John being injured in an airstrike.

ISIS fighter from France -- Abu Abdalrhman al Farance