on 2009 Electronic Awareness Warfare Appreciation Day at Joint Base Andrews Stephen Trimble from Flight Global noticed something unusual on a U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler Here’s what Stephen Trimble from Flight Global (who also took the photo) wrote about the picture: I noticed a Boeing EA-18G parked on the side …

on Jan. 21, 1991 Lt. Devon Jones a pilot from the VF-103 Sluggers, callsign “Slate 46” was flying with his RIO (Radar Intercept Officer) Lt. Lawrence Slade in an F-14B (AA 212, BuNo 161430, at the time designated F-14A Plus) In the first hours of the morning of the fourth …

U.S. Navy sailors who were awaiting Vice President Mike Pence’s were told by the ship’s command master chief to “clap like we’re at a strip club” when the vice president arrived at the USS Harry S. Truman. United States Vice-President Mike Pence got a friendly welcome aboard the USS Harry …

On Dec 13, 2006, a Near Miss between Italian F-16 Fighter jet and commercial jet took place. Two ItAF F-16s of the 37° Stormo, based in Trapani (radio callsign “Brandy”). The fighter jets are apparently returning to their home base after some kind of exercise. In the Video, you can …

A Venezuelan military helicopter crashed close to Caracas on Saturday, killing all seven people on board, the defence ministry said in a statement. The helicopter was to fly from Caracas, the capital, to the west-central state of Cojedes when it “went to ground”, the statement said, adding that authorities were …

A chase plane is an aircraft that “chases” a “subject” aircraft, spacecraft or rocket, for the purposes of making real-time observations and taking air-to-air photographs and video of the “subject aircraft”, during flight. When SR-71 Blackbird was in service Northrop T-38 Talon was its chase plane or T-38 to fly …

The Star Wars most famous Millennium Falcon spacecraft cockpit was inspired by the WWII B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber Well, the iconic greenhouse-style window of the Millennium Falcon was designed with the style of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, a strategic bomber flying 30 years before Han Solo and Chewbacca first appeared …

In 2014 Pakistan launched  Operation Zarb-e-Azb a joint military offensive conducted by the Pakistan Armed Forces against various militant groups, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, al-Qaeda, Jundallah and the Haqqani network. On 15 June 2014, the first phase of …

A Russian couple died in Mongolia from suspected bubonic plague, sparking a panic aboard a plane and forcing authorities to place the border under “indefinite quarantine,” leaving tourists stranded A 38-year-old man and his 37-year-old wife from Russia have died after contracting the bubonic plague after consuming contaminated marmot in …

on April 23, 2019, the Air Force Research Laboratory has announced successfully shot down multiple missiles with a laser weapon that could eventually defend fighters and other aircraft against existing and emerging missile threats. The Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) program is developing a directed energy laser system on an …