The US-backed fighters in Syria have declared military victory over ISIS on Saturday, ending a four-year battle against the group that once held territory spanning a third of Syria and Iraq. After weeks of heavy fighting, the tent camp where the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or …

PASSENGERS have spoken of their terror as furniture was sent flying in a cruise ship after its engines cut out in storms off the west coast of Norway. Rescue helicopters are evacuating dozens of people from a luxury cruise ship that suffered engine failure on Saturday in stormy weather off …

A cruise ship with 1,300 passengers on board has sent out a mayday call after suffering an engine failure in heavy winds near Norway. Rescue helicopters are now removing people from the ship after it began drifting towards shore when it suffered engine failure amid windy conditions. The ship named …

The passenger jets that recently crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia had something in common: They lacked safety features that could have helped prevent the deadly accidents, which Boeing charges extra for, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The optional safety features – an angle of attack indicator and a …

On  January 8, 2018, Saudi Arabia’s state media reported that a “twin-seater fighter jet” of the Royal Saudi Air Force was lost over Yemen. Colonel Turki Al-Malki, the spokesman for the Arab Coalition Forces Command, announced that the two-person crew of a Saudi fighter jet had been rescued uninjured while …

The helicopter crashed from 50 m. Near bystanders saw black smoke coming out of the helicopter and then it plunged down on the concrete. On Friday afternoon, a helicopter fell at an aerodrome located in the village of Garyuiu, in Barysių village, Joniškis district.   As reported by the General …

India and Pakistan are engaged in an ongoing military confrontation in the disputed Kashmir region and its neighboring provinces; the heightened tensions stem from a suicide car bombing that happened on 14 February 2019. In the bombing, a militant from Jammu and Kashmir killed 40 Indian Central Reserve Police Force …

The aircraft that appears in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is clearly based on early 1990s-era Lockheed Martin concepts for the Naval Advanced Tactical Fighter and the later A/F-X—both of which were based on the YF-22 demonstrator aircraft that eventually became the F-22 Raptor.   The Navy was not fond …

As explained by Alvin Towley in his book Fly Navy: Discovering the Extraordinary People and Enduring Spirit of Naval Aviation,  Joe “Hoser” Satrapa was set to duel two versus two with a pair of U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-15 Eagles On the tarmac, Hoser’s wingman had mechanical trouble and couldn’t …

The latest version of the AC-130J Ghostrider gunship has been delivered to the 4th Special Operations Squadron. The AC-130J’s six-bladed turboprop engines help it operate faster and much more efficiently than the Spooky, according to AFSOC, and it burns 25 to 30 percent less gas than previous models The AC-130U …