on June 21, 2019, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shoots down a U.S. Navy RQ-4 Global Hawk ‘spy’ drone in Hormozgan Province. US Navy Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS-D) aircraft, specifically a RQ-4A Global Hawk High-Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) drone that costs $220 million and was designed to be largely invulnerable to …
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Two German Air Force Eurofighters of the TLG73 “Steinhoff” from Rostock-Laage, collided midair and crashed. Both pilots ejected. Two EF2000 Eurofighters have collided and crashed in Bundesland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Monday afternoon 24 June 2019. The aircraft collided shortly before 14:00hrs local time near Lake Mueritz, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) …
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The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy have been quietly working together to develop a new air-to-air missile called the AIM-260 that will replace the venerable AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM. The two services are worried that the Chinese, in particular, have begun to outrange American …
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Libyan Arab Air Cargo plane was destroyed by RPG fire at Tripolis-International Airport, Libya. Antonov An-124, registered 5A-DKN, got destroyed at Tripoli Airport during military clashes. In 1994, the cargo aircraft first operated for Antonov Airtracker, then Trans-Charter Airlines, Volga-Dnepr, and Libyan Air Cargo. The Antonov An-124 was destroyed in …
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WOMAN was marched off a Jet2 plane at Stansted Airport after sparking a hijack alert by allegedly “rushing the cockpit” and threatening to kill passengers. Two RAF Typhoon fighters were scrambled to intercept the Airbus 321 – creating a sonic boom that was heard 40 miles away as they raced …
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A Beechcraft A90 King Air aircraft is reported down in Mokuleia on the north shore of the island of Oahu near Dillingham Airfield (PHDH), Mokuleia, Oahu, Hawaii. The airplane was partially consumed by the post-impact fire and the nine reported occupants onboard were fatally injured. The aircraft was reported carrying …
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Iran claimed it ‘refrained’ from shooting down a US spy plane with 35 on-board flying alongside its downed drone. Air Force commander Sardar Hajizadeh alleged a Boeing P-8 spy plane with servicemen aboard was also flying with the drone in Iranian airspace as he unveiled debris in Tehran. “With the …
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Donald Trump reportedly gave initial approval for the US military to launch strikes on Iran in retaliation for Tehran shooting down an American drone, before pulling back at the last minute. Planes were in the air and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came …
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A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) UH-1J military helicopter made a hard landing at Tachikawa air base on 21 June. The helicopter sustained a hard landing. The accident occurred probably during the practice of the autorotation landing by the copilot. The two crew members were not injured. The UH-1J …
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Iranian TV on Friday aired footage of what it says is the wreckage from the US drone that it shot down Thursday. The imagery suggests that Tehran got hold of the fragments before the US was able to recover it. Iran’s IRIB news agency showed the charred fragments spread across …
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