The People’s Liberation Army Air Force of China and its sister branch, the PLA Naval Air Force, operate a huge fleet of around 1,700 combat aircraft—defined here as fighters, bombers, and attack planes. This force is exceeded only by the 3,400 active combat aircraft of the U.S. military. Moreover, China …

Credits: U.S. Airforce Via Defense Visual Information Distribution Service Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II is once again unable to safely weather a hit from a lightning bolt. The most widely used variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is currently unable to fly in thunderstorms after the discovery of damage …

The RAF aircraft was struck by a BIRD mid-flightCredit: Twitter / Breaking Aviation News A Royal Air Force Airbus A400M Atlas suffered a bird strike during a flight out of Getafe Air Base, Spain. The aircraft suffered substantial damage on the fuselage under the cockpit. Pictures of the damaged Airbus …

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird No reconnaissance aircraft in history has operated globally in more hostile airspace or with such complete impunity than the SR-71, the world’s fastest jet-propelled aircraft. The Blackbird’s performance and operational achievements placed it at the pinnacle of aviation technology developments during the Cold War. When the Blackbird …

First flight AT-5 Brave Eagle – Photo credits: Tsungfang Tsai On 10 June 2020, Taiwan’s newly manufactured advanced jet training aircraft, the Aerospace Industrial Development Corp (AIDC) T-5 (AT-5) Yung Ying (“Brave Eagle”), serial 11001/08-9001, took to the air for its maiden flight at Ching Chuan Kang Air Force Base. …

C-17 carried out an operational mission, airlifting 18 tonnes of load into the Tuting airfield. ( Picture credit: IAF twitter) As military build-up on both sides of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh continues, a constant stream of IAF heavy lift aircraft have airlifted dozens of additional …

In the middle of the standoff that India has with China, the Indian Air Force has pushed a proposal to the government for acquiring 33 new fighter aircraft, including 21 MiG-29s and 12 Su-30MKIs from Russia. “The Air Force has been working on this plan for some time but they …

1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash – Credits: USAF On Friday, 24 June 1994, a United States Air Force (USAF) Boeing B-52 Stratofortress crashed at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, United States, after its pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur “Bud” Holland, maneuvered the bomber beyond its operational limits and lost …

In this article, we will share with you the hilarious Dogfight video. The video seems to have surfaced about ten years ago. In the video, a student in a T-38C getting a handle on basic fighter maneuvers (BFM), more commonly and broadly referred to as dogfighting, in a one versus …

Last month’s tragic crash of a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane in Karachi took place due to human errors – the negligence of both the cockpit crew as well as the air control tower – and not because of any technical fault. There was apparently no technical fault in …