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Anyone can ID this aircraft? Spotted on Google Earth dated Jan 2010 at the PLAN base of Changzhou near Shanghai, which is a civilian-military airport home to a regiment of H-6 bombers. http://thebaseleg.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/unidentified-aircraft-seen-at-plan.html I'll admit I'm stumped; posed thi...

Updates: Two of the three crew (from Fairchild AFB, Wash.) have been found deceased. A new photo shows the crash scene immediately post impact http://thebaseleg.blogspot.com.au/2013/ ... zstan.html

Photos of the crash site and some wreckage here: http://thebaseleg.blogspot.com.au/2013/ ... zstan.html

Interesting photo of J-15 (554) with shark artwork on vertical tail. (Larger photo in this link)

Note that one of the J-15s (554) pictured doing touch-and-goes on the Liaoning has what appears to be artwork of a shark on the tail

I always like to see how the PLAAF seems to dare to fire unguided rockets so close to civilian structures (the 2nd pic)

More photos added to my blog's post. See crash of TNI-AU Hawk 209 TT-0212

More on the crash of TNI-AU Hawk 209 TT-0212

Screen grab from video:

Some say its to simulate the camo on the newer Vietnamese Su-30MK2Vs. Yes or no? Comparison here http://thebaseleg.blogspot.com.au/2012/ ... amese.html

Photos from Eielson confirm that the last of 24 F-15SGs have been delivered. More details and higher res photo at http://thebaseleg.blogspot.com.au/2012/ ... vered.html

Post with information culled from French, Taiwanese and other sources here.

http://thebaseleg.blogspot.com.au/2012/ ... anese.html

Both the 425 FS (F-16C/Ds Block 52s) from Luke AFB and 428 FS (F-15SGs) from Mountain Home AFB will take part in Red Flag Alaska 13-3

http://thebaseleg.blogspot.com.au/2012/ ... rt-in.html

Photos of People's Liberation Army AF Su-30s in desert camouflage have been published, from an exercise earlier in September. Higher-res images in the link.

For the first time, the Indonesian Air Force will be sending it's Sukhoi Su-27/30 Flanker interceptors to Darwin, Australia for the upcoming Exercise Pitch Black. FourTNI-AU Flankers will join aircraft from Australia, Singapore, Thailand and the United States for the exercise. http://thebaseleg.blog...

I don't notice the camouflaged taxiways, but that's perhaps because they did a very good job. Somehow the runway doesn't seem to be straight or is there something wrong with the image? could be, that the runway is on a hill? The terrain the base is on was originally quite hilly, I believe the terra...