Russia Delivered Second Batch Of Advanced MiG-29 Fulcrum Fighter Jets To Syria – Credits: Russian Embassy, Syria on May 30, 2020, Syrian state media has reported that the country’s armed forces received new MiG-29 fourth-generation medium-weight fighter jets, with a delivery ceremony held at Russia’s Khmeimim Airbase in Latakia Province …
Read More »Indonesian Army Mil Mi-17V-5 Helicopter Crashed In Central Java, 4 Dead & 5 Injured
The wreck of a helicopter that crashed in Kendal Industrial Park, Saturday (6/6). Photo: ICSenjaya / ANTARA An Indonesian military helicopter crashed under unknown circumstances. Four occupants died and five were injured. “The helicopter was flying very low and getting lower until it crashed with a very loud sound,” said …
Read More »32 Finnish Air Force F-18 Hornets Performed Elephant Walk At Kuopio Air Base
Credits: Ilmavoimat on June 4, 2020, thirty-two Finnish Air Force F-18C/D Hornet performed elephant walk at kuopio airbase. The Finnish Air Force, or Ilmavoimat, announced that the exercise had involved a total of 32 Hornets. Pictures the service released only show 16 of the fighter jets together at Kuopio Air …
Read More »Convair F2Y Sea Dart: A Fighter Jet On Waterskis
The Convair F2Y Sea Dart was an American seaplane fighter aircraft that rode on twin hydro-skis during takeoff and landing. It flew only as a prototype, and never entered mass production. It is the only seaplane to have exceeded the speed of sound. It was created in the 1950s, to …
Read More »Storm Damaged Royal Netherlands Air Force Boeing CH-47 Chinook Helicopter In Pennsylvania
Damaged RNLAF Boeing CH-47 Chinook Helicopter – Credits: pilootenvliegtuig.nl A Royal Netherlands Air Force Boeing CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter was damaged by a storm in the United States. The helicopter was parked at Reading, Pennsylvania, during an intermediate stop. The rotor blades were tied down as a storm was approaching. …
Read More »Chinese J-20 Stealth Fighter Jet Can Switch Into “Beast Mode” Just Like U.S. F-35: Reports
J-20 – Credits: SausageMcWonderpants The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II F-35s, the world’s most advanced jets. In stealth mode, the F-35 can infiltrate enemy territory that other fighters can’t, carrying 5,700 pounds of internal ordnance. Once air dominance is established, the F-35 converts to beast mode, carrying up to 22,000 …
Read More »Is The Chinese JH-7 Fighter-Bomber An Answer To The PAF Deep Strike Needs?
Credits: Unknown Via Airrecognition.com The dominant requirement for deep attack in a major regional conflict is to strike the enemys centers of gravity and to do it rapidly, accurately, and with intensity. (Centers of gravity, in the parlance of modern strategy, are those critical points in the opponents order of …
Read More »U.S. Air Force Interested In Morphing Aircraft & Lifting Body Missile Airframe Designs For Its Future Long-range Air-to-air Missiles
Right: NASA X-24B Lifting Body on the Lakebed – Left: NASA Morphing Aircraft The U.S. Air Force is looking for new experimental ideas for its future long-range air-to-air missiles. On 4 May, Yvette S Weber, acting deputy assistant secretary of the USAF for science, technology and engineering, says the service …
Read More »New Image Reveals Bird Strike Possible Factor in Canadian Snowbirds CT-114 Crash
A still capture from a video showing a foreign object, possibly a bird, in close proximity to the aircraft’s engine intake moments before the crash. (Photo: Via Canadian Forces) Canadian air force crash investigators are looking at a bird strike as the probable cause of the crash of a Snowbird …
Read More »U.S. Military Helicopters Performed Bizarre Low-Flying Show Of force Tactic To Break Up Protest Crowds In Washington DC
Low-flying military helicopters used a wind-blowing tactic to break up crowds in Washington, DC, on Monday night as protests over racial injustice and police brutality continued past city-wide curfew. Videos posted online by New York Times reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs shows a military helicopter hovering at a low-altitude above protesters in …
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