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The legendary 160th SOAR "Night Stalkers" brought serious firepower and precision flying to Tampa during the famous Battle of the Bay capability demonstration at SOF Week 2026.

This video features incredible MH-60M Black Hawk helicopter action including: Low level tactical flying

-Special Operations assault demonstrations

-Live fire sequences

-Fast rope and extraction operations

A modified F-15A called the Streak Eagle was used to break 8 time-to-climb world records between January and Febuary of 1975, to make it light and fast all unnecessary items, such as missiles, radar, cannon, tail hook, one generator, utility hydraulic system, flap, speed brake actuators and paint were removed. 2 years after the Streak Eagle set it's records the Sukhoi T-10-1 prototype took to the skies, 5 years later it will enter series production as the Su-27 and then finally entering service in 1985. A year after being introduced the soviets chose it to be the plane to take away the Streak Eagles records.

One of the T-10S prototypes was stripped of all armament, radar and operational equipment, the fin tips were removed, as was the tailboom and the wingtip launch rails, the radome was replaced by a lighter metal fairing. Stripped of paint, the aircraft was polished and all drag-producing gaps and joints were sealed. The engines were modified to give an increase in thrust of 2,204lbs, giving the P-42, as the modified aircraft was designated, a phenomenal thrust-to-weight ratio of almost 2:1.

The mainwheel brakes could not hold the aircraft at full thrust so the P-42 was anchored to a tracked armoured vehicle by a steel hawser with an electronic lock. With the engines wound up to full power, the hawser was released and the P-42 leaped into the air and climbed at an optimum angle to altitude.

Between 1986 and 1988 the P-42, piloted variously by Victor Pugachev, Nikolai Sadovnikov, Oleg Tsoi and Yevgeni Frolov, took no less than 27 records from the Streak Eagle, including time-to-height records for 3000, 6000, 9000, 12000 and 15000 metres, a height record of 19335m (63435 ft) and time-to-height records with various payloads. The aircraft even set records for STOL aircraft with a take-off run of less than 1540ft, most of these records still stand to this day

The P-42 was stored at Zhukovsky before being moved to Oreshkovo while the Streak Eagle is on display at National Museum of the US Air Force.

source: https://x.com/i/status/2106255098750050358

Image source - IAF

The Jaguar has an Elta 2052 AESA radar in its nose, the only one aside from the Rafale to have an AESA in the IAF currently. Tejas Mk1A will follow and then it’ll be the Su-30MKI once it’s upgraded to Super Sukhoi standard.

Image courtesy -IAF

Tejas Mk1 from No.18 “Flying Bullets” squadron

Image courtesy of- RK Chauhan

It was built in 1977 as the Tu-134Sh-1, a training variant for bomber crews which was fitted with bomb racks. In 1978 it was renamed the Tu-134SL and fitted with the nose cone of the Tu-22M3 and used to test the bomber's Almaz PNA navigation and attack radar system, later the nose was installed on the Tu-134UBL. Renamed SL-134Sh when it was testing cruise missile equipment. In 1980 it was used to test the Su-27's N001 Mech radar. In November of 2000 it was converted to accept a new phased array radar from NPO Leninets for the Su-34. In this form, the aircraft was called L17-10V, Laboratory No. 17 for the T-10V project. It was placed in storage in 2010 and scrapped 4 years later.

The plane was owned by NPP Mir, an aviation and research enterprise which it's holding company is NPO Leninets, a defense enterprise that specializes in radio-electronic equipment, radar systems, and aircraft navigation components.

Couldn't remove the mark for copyright reasons

I think models are allowed here...? But just in case I also attached the historical photos (citing from emmas planes). I'm quite new to modeling so the paintjob ain't exactly the cleanest, also don't have the whole set of colors so I used the closest I have to their historical camo.

Those are:

XT-2 in prototype white camouflage.

XT-3 in factory unpainted wood.

XP-1 in ROC green camouflage.