on 26 February 2019 India Airforce conducted a Balakot airstrike. Indian warplanes crossed the de facto border in the disputed region of Kashmir and dropped bombs in the vicinity of the town of Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The following day, on February 27 Pakistan Airforce retaliated and …
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Exercise Red Flag is a two-week advanced aerial combat training exercise with the purpose of offering realistic air-combat training for military pilots and other flight crew members from the U.S., NATO, and other allied countries. Each year, four to six Red Flag exercises are held at Nellis Air Force Base, …
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No reconnaissance aircraft in history has operated globally in more hostile airspace or with such complete impunity than the SR-71, the world’s fastest jet-propelled aircraft. The Blackbird’s performance and operational achievements placed it at the pinnacle of aviation technology developments during the Cold War. The interesting video in this post …
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on Jul. 11, 1994 a VF-51 Screaming Eagles F-14A Tomcat BuNo 162602 Suffered a ramp strike upon landing aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) A ramp strike is when an aircraft coming to land aboard an aircraft carrier impacts the rear of the carrier, also called the ramp, below the …
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On May 13, 2019, for the second time in U.S. Air Force history, the service has brought a B-52H Stratofortress bomber out of storage Boneyard and delivered it to an operational unit The 307th Bomb Wing (BW) brought a previously decommissioned B-52 Stratofortress to Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana. …
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On April 6, 2019, a Russian News portal fort-russ.com published an article titled “ IN DEPTH: Poland’s Staged MiG Crashes – NATO Plan For Sales Of Inferior U.S F-35″ In the article author Alexander Shtorm & Bill French claims that Poland might have Staged MiG-29 Fighter jets Crashes to the …
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Royal Canadian Air Force is looking to replace Canada’s aging fleet of fighter jets with new fighter jets. Four companies are vying for the multibillion-dollar contract for as many as 88 fighters that would replace the RCAF’s 1980s-vintage Hornets, which in Canadian service are designated “CF-18.” Attempts to replace 3-decade-old …
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Authorities of the National Civil Police (PNC) located a private Gulfstream Aerospace G-1159 Gulfstream III jet with registration unknown on an illegal strip in Guatemala near Chico de Chamorro, Retalhuleu The jet was set afire after landing in a wooded area La Policía Nacional Civil Informa:Vecinos de la localidad el Chico …
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Just days before Barack Obama left office, two B-2 stealth fighters carrying 80 precision-guided bombs were sent to Libya 5,700 miles away to target ISIS terror camps B-2 STEALTH BOMBER took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and flew 32-hours long mission to the target in Libya and then …
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In the 1980s, the USSR Mil Mi-25 Hind-D, the export variant of the Mi-24 Hind helicopter was one of the most advanced helicopters in the world. Western intelligence desperately needed to get hands on it An opportunity for such a look finally presented itself in the form of the discovery …
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