The Air Force has installed new wings on 173 of its A-10 Thunderbolts, which are about 61% of the service’s 282 A-10s. The future of the A-10 has been in doubt in recent years, but the new wings are expected to keep the ground-attack aircraft flying until the late 2030s. …
Read More »
Russian Su-27 Flanker Escorting plane carrying Russia’s defense minister shooed NATO Spanish EF-18 Hornet away A Spanish fighter jet in Lithuania on a NATO mission scrambled to intercept a plane carrying the Russian defense minister, but a Russian Su-27 fighter intervened. The aircraft is a Spanish Air Force EF-18, one …
Read More »
SR-91 Aurora aircraft design was a rumored mid-1980s American reconnaissance aircraft. It is believed that SR-91 Aurora is capable of hypersonic flight at speeds of Mach 5+. According to the hypothesis, Aurora was developed in the 1980s or 1990s as a replacement for the aging and expensive SR-71 Blackbird. Aurora also …
Read More »
According to aviation-safety.net,On 12-AUG-2019 an Iranian Air Force (IRIAF) Grumman F-14A Tomcat fighter jet after a technical issue during a training mission near Esfahãn-Shahid Beheshti International Airport The fighter jet plane from the 8th Tactical Air Base crashed after a technical issue during a training mission. The pilot trying to …
Read More »
US soldiers are patrolling Afghanistan with a new tool that lets them see the battlefield like never before — personal, pocket-sized drones. The 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division has deployed to Afghanistan with Black Hornet personal reconnaissance drones — a small, lightweight unmanned aerial vehicle produced by FLIR …
Read More »
According to Indian Media Reports Pakistan Air Force is deploying JF-17 fighter jets at Skardu Forward operating base near Ladakh Amid the ongoing tensions with Pakistan over the abrogation of the Article 370, Pakistani forces have started moving equipment to their forward bases close to Ladakh. “Three C-130 transport aircraft …
Read More »
It has been claimed by some sources that an RAF Tornado (ZA467) crewed by Squadron Leader Gary Lennox and Squadron Leader Adrian Weeks was shot down on 19 January by an R-60MK missile fired from an Iraqi MiG-29 piloted by Jameel Sayhood, however, this aircraft is officially recorded as having …
Read More »
On Apr. 21, 1989, SR-71 Blackbird #61-17974, better known as Ichi-Ban departed Kadena Air Base (AB) on a mission. At the controls were Pilot Lt. Col Dan House, and RSO Blair Bozek. As #974 accelerated through three times the speed of sound, the left compressor bearing froze, causing the immediate …
Read More »
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) released a video, which showed the British Type-45 destroyer HMS Duncan being pursued by IRGCN fast attack boats. The video reveals a warship sailing in the distance while a group of smaller boats armed with machine guns follow behind at some distance. …
Read More »
According to the U.S. Department of Defense Lockheed Martin has been awarded an incentive contract for F-16 aircraft production for Slovak Air Force Lockheed has won a contract valued at as much as $799,9 million to build a batch of 14 F-16 Block 70 aircraft jets (12 single-seat and 2 …
Read More »
