A Gippsland GA-8 Airvan plane operated by Skydive Umeå carrying skydivers crashes into the river near Storsandskär, near Umeå – Sweden The aircraft was presumably destroyed and the nine occupants onboard were fatally injured.  The plane took off from Umea airport shortly after 1.30pm and came down around 2 pm, …

Over 700,000 have pledged to find out. A Facebook event named Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us has become an internet sensation. At the time of writing, 750,000 users have signed up to attend the event, located in the deserts of Nevada, and another 677,000 are “interested” …

MiG-29OVT FULCRUM was unveiled At the Moscow MAKS airshow in 2001, as a demonstrator with a vectored-thrust nozzle to increase its maneuverability characteristics. Thrust vectoring increases flight maneuverability, allowing the plane to actually dance on its tail. This almost unique characteristic (only Su fighters can also do this) allows the …

The Su-57 was Russia’s second attempt at developing a fifth-generation aircraft, preceded by several decades with an altogether different project. In 1979, Soviet high command determined that a new generation of fighter aircraft was needed to ensure the competitiveness of the Soviet Air Force (VVS) into the 1990s and beyond. …

Norway has found a radiation level 800,000 times higher than normal at the wreck of a Russian navy submarine. The Komsomolets sank in the Norwegian Sea in 1989 after a fire on board killed 42 sailors. The submarine is also known as K-278 in Russia, and it sank carrying two …

The U.S. Coast Guard made quite the drug bust in the Eastern Pacific Ocean in June 2019, and footage from that bust has just been released. On Thursday (July 11), the U.S. Coast Guard released footage showing crew members of the Cutter Munro in pursuit of a partially submerged submarine. …

U.S. Air Force Boeing E-3B Sentry (707-300) from 522nd Air Control Wing (USAF) makes an emergency landing at Lincoln Airport after one of its engines caught fire mid-flight.  Cause and damage under investigation. The six crew members were not injured. The call of an engine on fire came in shortly …

According to Master Sgt. Daryl Knee, Air Combat Command Public Affairs article on Businessinsider The Head of Air Force’s Air Combat Command dogfights his son on Twitch in Ace Combat video game. The commander of Air Combat Command and his son fought each other live on a Twitch stream in …

North Korea’s state media has reported South Korea’s acquisition of American F-35 stealth fighter jets will force North Korea to develop and test “special armaments” to destroy the new weapons South Korean authorities are “impudent and pitiful” for “talking loudly about reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south” …

According to the Turkish defence ministry, the first shipment of the Russian S-400 missile system has arrived in Turkey, moving the NATO member closer to a new standoff with the United States. The ministry said in a statement that “the first group of equipment” of the advanced air defence systems …