Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abinandan Varthaman whose Mig-21 Bison was shot down on February 27 during a dogfight with Pakistan Air Force jets – could not hear instructions asking him to turn back because his communications system was jammed by the enemy, according to Indian Air Force (IAF) and …

Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14,200,000 square kilometres (5,500,000 square miles), it is the fifth-largest continent and nearly …

On July 2, 2019, 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs at HILL AIR FORCE BASE posted interesting photos that feature A-10 Warthog attack aircraft undergoing maintenance in an Ogden Air Logistics Complex maintenance hangar at Hill AFB. The Ogden Air Logistics Complex, with headquarters at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, …

Yesterday Ural Airlines Flight U6-178, an Airbus A321-211, registration VQ-BOZ, performing flight U6-178 from Moscow Zhukovsky (Russia) to Simferopol (Ukraine), was substantially damaged when it force landed to a cornfield shortly after takeoff due to a dual bird strike and engine failure. The aircraft with 226 passengers and 7 crew, …

Last month Tom Cruise Made a Surprise Appearance At Comic-Con with first ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Trailer The official two-minute teaser boasts blockbuster scenes with Maverick taking to the skies in F/A-18 Super Hornet and F-14 Tomcat fighter jets, chasing his need for speed on his motorbike and attending a funeral. The …

On 10 August 1999, 20 years ago, an Indian Air Force MiG-21 shot down a Pakistan Navy Dassault ‘Atlantique’ over the Rann of Kutch. The French-built Breguet Atlantic, c/n 33, flight Atlantic-91, of 29 Squadron, was one of the Pakistan Navy’s frontline aircraft, used primarily for patrol and reconnaissance. Atlantic-91 …

After starting the production of its first stealth fighter Sukhoi SU-57 fighter jets, Russia is in final stage of developing another Stealth aicraft, the Mikoyan MiG-41 or PAK DP is a stealth interceptor aircraft/heavy fighter. The new aircraft has been considered for a few years, but recently MiG CEO Ilya …

An international team of researchers has traced an unusual 2017 radioactive release that blanketed a large part of Europe to Russia. The cloud was not harmful outside of Russia, according to the paper published in scientific journal PNAS, but researchers said there may have been a more serious fallout in the …

The Navy may need more than $5 billion to return Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake to a “mission capable” status following a series of earthquakes back in July. A pair of major earthquakes, with registered magnitudes of 6.4 and 7.1, along with thousands of aftershocks, rocked the base and …

Newport News Shipbuilding has completed installation of the flight deck on the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy. The USS John F Kennedy is the second Gerald R Ford-Class aircraft carrier currently under construction for the US Navy and is due to be commissioned in 2020. A recent milestone was achieved …