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 …
Read More »26 Years Ago Today U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress Crashed At Fairchild Air Force Base
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 …
Read More »Watch Hilarious Dogfight: Instructor Fighter Pilot Screams “Kill Him! Kill Him!”
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 …
Read More »PIA Flight PK-8303 Crashed Due To Human Error: Preliminary Report
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 …
Read More »35 Years Ago Today Air-India Flight 182 Was Destroyed By Bomb Killing 329 Innocents
Air IndIa Flight 182 – Credits: Oṅkâra Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Montreal–London–Delhi route. On 23 June 1985 it was operated using Boeing 747-237B registered VT-EFO. It disintegrated in midair en route from Montreal to London, at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 …
Read More »U.S. Navy Inverted EA-18G Growler For Testing Next Generation Jammer-Low Band Pod
Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) team conducts final Demonstration of Existing Technologies testing on prototype pods from L3Harris and Northrop Grumman Corporation simultaneously at the Facility for Antenna and RCS Measurement (shown here) and Air Combat Environmental Test and Evaluation Facility, located at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. …
Read More »U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Fleet Facing Engine Shortage: Report
Engine nozzles of the F-22 (picture source). The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is a single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft developed for the United States Air Force (USAF). The U.S. Department of Defense announced the decision to end F-22 production at 187 aircraft in April 2009. The Air Force received …
Read More »Japan Scramble Fighter Jets To Intercept PLANAF Shaanxi Y-9JB Electronic Surveillance Aircraft
Credits: Japan’s defense ministry As we have reported earlier today that Chinese Fighter Jet and Bomber Approached Taiwan’s Airspace 8th Time In Last 2 Weeks. Now according to Japan’s defense ministry, Japan scrambled its fighter jets to intercept a People’s Liberation Army Naval Air Force electronic surveillance aircraft over the …
Read More »IAF Should Buy MiG-35 and Su-57 Instead Of More MiG-29s and Su-30MKIs To Counter China
Russian Su-57 and MiG-35 Next Generation Fighters – Credits: Russian Airforce As we have reported earlier, 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 …
Read More »Chinese Fighter Jet and Bomber Approached Taiwan’s Airspace 8th Time In Last 2 Weeks
Taiwan’s F-16 fighter (left) flies alongside China’s H-6 bomber (right) /photo courtesy of the Ministry of National Defense A Chinese bomber and fighter jet approached Taiwan’s airspace on Monday, marking the 8th time People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) warplanes have menaced the country in less than two weeks. Taiwan’s …
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