Credits: Top Gun Just like their Top Gun characters, Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise had a little bit of a rivalry behind the scenes. In an excerpt obtained by Closer Weekly, the Tombstone star said he and Tom fell into different circles on set. “We were the party boys,” he explained. “Every night …
Read More »Chadian Air Force Su-25 Frogfoot Accidentally Fired Rocket At French C-130H At N’Djamena Airport killing Five Civilians
A screenshot from the surveillance video filmed at NDjamena. On Apr. 17, 2020 a Chadian Air Force Su-25 Frogfoot accidentally fired a rocket at French C-130H parked at Base Aérienne Kossei NDjamena, Chad. The rocket accidentally fired by a Chadian Air Force Su-25 Frogfoot struck an empty tanker truck, missed …
Read More »Don Kirlin: The Man Who Owns The World’s Most Advanced Private Air Force
Credits: the-war-zone Don Kirlin is the owner of Air USA the most advanced private air force in the world. Kirlin has reached thereafter building his fleet bit by bit over the last 30 years. Kirlin’s company, Air USA, recently bought 46 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18 Hornets. Air USA …
Read More »French Air Force Fighter Jets Pilots Gets New YEMA Superman Watches
Credits: yema Yema is a French watchmaking company based in Besançon, France. Since the 1970s, French watchmaker YEMA has worked in partnership with the French Air Force, supplying the military branch with high-performance timepieces to assist them in their operations. Now officially renewing their partnership, the brand has created a …
Read More »Lockheed Martin Has Reported Trained 1,000th Pilot & 9,000th Maintainer For The F-35 Lightning II program
Gen. Mike Holmes, the commander of Air Combat Command, congratulates Capt. Kristin “BEO” Wolfe, the new F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team pilot (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Kip Sumner). Lockheed Martin has reported that it trained the 1,000th pilot and 9,000th maintainer for the F-35 Lightning II program. More …
Read More »Airbus MRTT Test Aircraft Successfully Completed World’s First Fully Automatic Refuelling Contacts On F-16 Fighter Jets
Photo caption: The picture shows the first fully automated refuelling contacts between an Airbus tanker test aircraft and a Portuguese Air Force F-16 fighter jet. Credits: airbus Airbus has achieved the first-ever fully automatic air-to-air refueling (A3R) operation with a boom system. The flight test campaign, conducted earlier in the …
Read More »Watch: Libya’s LNA Forces Shoots Down GNA Dassault Mirage F1 Jet With Russian Defense System
Credits: Rob Schleiffert – Mirage F1BD Via Wikipedia A Mirage F1 fighter jet from the Government of National Accord (GNA) is said to have been shot down by an air defence system of the Libyan National Army (LNA). The LNA’s air defenses, using their Russian-made Pantsir-S system, shot down the French-made Mirage …
Read More »Indian Air Force Brand New AH-64E Apache Helicopters Makes Emergency Landing In Punjab Field
IAF helicopter Apache after emergency landing in Hoshiarpur of Punjab. (Photo:India Today) A brand new AH-64E Apache attack helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) made an emergency landing in a field in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur. The two pilots are safe and the district police are in touch with the IAF’s …
Read More »U.S. Air Force Starts 3D Printing Face Shields Amid Protective Equipment Shortages
U.S. Air Force Staff. Sgt. Maximilion Estrada, Phoenix Spark noncommissioned officer in charge of agile manufacturing, assembles a face shield(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jonathon Carnell) U.S. Air Force based at the Travis Air Force Base has started producing 3D printed face shields amid protective equipment shortages in …
Read More »Kazakhstan Air Force MiG-31 Crashed Shortly After Takeoff Due To Engine Fire
Kazakhstan Air Force MiG-31 crashed shortly after takeoff, as one of the engines caught fire. Both pilots ejected safely. A MiG-31 military aircraft has crashed in Kazakhstan’s Karaganda region due to a fire in one of its engines, the Defence Ministry said in a statement. “The accident occurred south of …
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