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That Time We Bombed a Volcano When a town in Hawaii was threatened by lava in 1935, a group of airplanes tried to redirect the flow.

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France surges in fighter sales as GCAP, SCAF loom | Bill Sweetman | www.aspistrategist.org.au/france-surge...

Strategic Defense Initiative: Popularizing Homeland Defense and Battle Management Featured image depicts a portion of a April 1984 letter from Mr. Raymond P. Urtz, Rome Air Development Center’s Command and Control Division Technical Director, to Lt Gen James A. Abrahamson,…

Strategic Defense Initiative: Popularizing Homeland Defense and Battle Management afhrafromthestacks.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/s...

#OTDIH – No. 1 Squadron RAAF Goes to War in Malaya On 26 July 1950, No. 1 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) conducted its first operations in support of Operation FIREDOG, the British Commonwealth’s air operations against insu…

No. 1 Squadron RAAF Goes to War in Malaya by @airpowerhistory.bsky.social drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/o...

Mutual aid in an air raid In August 1940, the letter columns of the Stoke-on-Trent Evening Sentinel raged with an intense (if brief) controversy over the existence of unofficial civil defence groups known as 'street patrols'. These were nothing to do with the national Air Raid Precautions (ARP) organisation, which among other things recruited air raid wardens to monitor and coordinate [...]

Mutual aid in an air raid by @airminded.org airminded.org/2025/07/21/m...

#OTDIH – No. 1 Squadron RAAF Goes to War in Malaya On 26 July 1950, No. 1 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) conducted its first operations in support of Operation FIREDOG, the British Commonwealth’s air operations against insu…

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#OTDIH – No. 1 Squadron RAAF Goes to War in Malaya On 26 July 1950, No. 1 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) conducted its first operations in support of Operation FIREDOG, the British Commonwealth’s air operations against insu…

#OTDIH – No. 1 Squadron RAAF Goes to War in Malaya drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/o... #RAAF #airpowerhistory #ColdWar

This World War I Plane Has Two Claims to Fame: It Was One of the Deadliest Fighter Aircraft of Its Time, and It Was Flown by Snoopy The Sopwith Camel was challenging to fly but also successful in downing enemy planes, and it went on to gain pop-culture fame thanks to the beloved “Peanuts” beagle

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#ResearchNote – The Forgotten Few: The Royal Australian Air Force and the Korean Air War – A Historiographical Note By Dr Ross Mahoney Editorial note: This article first appeared on the author’s website. It has been reproduced here with permission. The Korean War is often described as the ‘Forgotten War’ d…

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Operation ZEUS: A Very British Contingency Defence blog focusing on 21st century analysis of Cold War defence, security and continuity of government problems.

Thin Pinstriped Line: Operation ZEUS: A Very British Contingency thinpinstripedline.blogspot.com/2025/07/oper...

#ResearchNote – The Forgotten Few: The Royal Australian Air Force and the Korean Air War – A Historiographical Note By Dr Ross Mahoney Editorial note: This article first appeared on the author’s website. It has been reproduced here with permission. The Korean War is often described as the ‘Forgotten War’ d…

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#ResearchNote – The Forgotten Few: The Royal Australian Air Force and the Korean Air War – A Historiographical Note The Korean War is often described as the ‘Forgotten War’ due to it being sandwiched between the more commonly known Second World War and the Vietnam War. Furthermore, a debate persists over its cha…

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#ResearchNote – The Forgotten Few: The Royal Australian Air Force and the Korean Air War – A Historiographical Note The Korean War is often described as the ‘Forgotten War’ due to it being sandwiched between the more commonly known Second World War and the Vietnam War. Furthermore, a debate persists over its cha…

#ResearchNote – The Forgotten Few: The Royal Australian Air Force and the Korean Air War – A Historiographical Note drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/r... #airpowerhistory #KoreanWar #RAAF

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Air Power Theorists — R.F.M. Williams Douhet, Mitchell, and Trenchard Oh My! Following the First World War, a trio of airpower theorists asserted the primacy of airpower and its ability to win wars outright. These theories emerged from in...

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The Discoverer Program: The Birth of Strategic Space Reconnaissance Featured Image depicts USAF and Lockheed personnel conducting a final check before the launch of Discoverer XIII. AFHRA, IRIS 00919615. As the 35th anniversary of the Gulf War, often credited as th…

The Discoverer Program: The Birth of Strategic Space Reconnaissance afhrafromthestacks.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/t...

The UK’s F-35 Procurement Strategy: A Balancing Act in June 2025 the UK Government announced plans to buy F-35A air craft. But so what? And what's the context? Read this expert view.

The UKs F-35 Procurement Strategy: A Balancing Act - wavellroom.com/2025/07/04/t...

#OTDIH – First ‘Mosquito’ Operation in Korea in 1950 On this day in 1950, Lieutenants James Bryant and Frank Mitchell of the United States Air Force (USAF) flew the first airborne forward air controller (FAC) mission of the Korean War in a US Army St…

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#OTDIH – First ‘Mosquito’ Operation in Korea in 1950 On this day in 1950, Lieutenants James Bryant and Frank Mitchell of the United States Air Force (USAF) flew the first airborne forward air controller (FAC) mission of the Korean War in a US Army St…

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#OTDIH – Squadron Leader Graham Strout Goes Missing in 1950 On 7 July 1950, the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) No. 77 Squadron suffered its first casualty when Squadron Leader Graham Strout was declared missing after an ‘armed attack’ sortie over Samch…

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#OTDIH – RAAF Base Richmond Formed, 1925 On this day in history, in 1925, the first Royal Australian Air Force aeroplanes landed at a station at Richmond, New South Wales.[1] The significance of RAAF Base Richmond lies in the fact that it…

#OTDIH – RAAF Base Richmond Formed, 1925 (Actually yesterday when the article was posted ;-)) drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/o...

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#OTDIH – The Royal Australian Air Force Goes to War in Korea On 25 June 1950 local time, forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Launching Operation Pokpung,…

#OTDIH - The Royal Australian Air Force goes War in Korea drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/o... #airpowerhistory #koreanwar

#OTDIH - The Australian Government consents to No. 77 Squadron RAAF supporting UN forces in the Korean War. The squadron operated from Iwakuni air base in Japan. #KoreanWar

#ResearchNote – Understanding Attitudes to Australian Military History: Some Air Power Observations In mid-June this year, the War Studies Research Group at UNSW Canberra published an excellent and thought-provoking report on ‘Understanding Attitudes to Australian Military History.’ Authored by N…

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#ResearchNote – Understanding Attitudes to Australian Military History: Some Air Power Observations In mid-June this year, the War Studies Research Group at UNSW Canberra published an excellent and thought-provoking report on ‘Understanding Attitudes to Australian Military History.’ Authored by N…

#ResearchNote - Understanding Attitudes to Australian Military History: Some Air Power Observations drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/r...

General Thomas D. White & The Inevitability of Space as a Domain General Thomas D. White, as an early proponent of both ballistic missiles and the role of the USAF in space, stands as a critical example to today’s Airmens and Guardians as they seek to find…

General Thomas D. White & The Inevitability of Space as a Domain afhrafromthestacks.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/g...

The Colonel, the Sculptor, and the Supreme Court Justice:  Assessing the Failure of American Aircraft Production in the First World War – Part Two By Lieutenant Colonel Michael H Taint, United States Air Force (Ret’d) Editorial note: In this two-part article, Michael Taint re-evaluates the conduct of Colonel Edward Deeds in the management of …

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@balloons2drones.bsky.social – 9 years on. Thanks go to those who have supported the site, especially @brianlaslie.bsky.social, Mike Hankins, @alexfitzblack.bsky.social, @luketruxal.bsky.social, @spitfirefilly.bsky.social, @mariaeb.bsky.social, drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/f...

Israel’s air strength is giving it a free hand over Iran The Iranian military has been largely unable to prevent missile attacks and Israeli aircraft from entering its air space.

Israel’s air strength is giving it a free hand over Iran theconversation.com/israels-air-...