Credits: Dark Footage / Youtube At the end of the Vietnam War, Saigon was forced into a historic evacuation as the North Vietnamese army descended upon the city. Among the countless stories of heroism and bravery, this photo remains a moving record of what a man is willing to for …
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F-117A Stealth Fighter #833 arrival at the Palm Springs Air Museum – Credits: Palm Springs Air Museum / Youtube On Oct. 3, 2020, the Palm Springs Air Museum (PSAM), in Palm Springs, California, welcomed the F-117A #833 with a military retirement ceremony. The Nighthawk 85-0833 is the second-highest combat mission …
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On 6 February 2012, a Mid-Air Nightmare happened when Indian Air Force An-32 K-3060 came into land. The crew realizes that the left main wheel failed to descend. Indian Air Force (IAF) Flight Lieutenant Gunadnya Kharche successfully landed an An-32 transport aircraft on a single landing wheel at the Sulur Air …
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Credits: Ivan O’Gilvi / Twitter A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24M bomber aircraft fell into a ditch during transportation via road. The front-line bomber Su-24M found itself in a roadside ditch after an accident near the village of Anuchino, Primorsky Territory. The plane was transported in tow along the Osinovka …
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The SWiFT/Ghatak UCAV scale model (Screenshot from IIT-Kanpur’s YouTube video) A never-before seen model of India’s GHATAK stealth flying wing combat drone has broken cover in a recently uploaded video by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur). The UAV design lecture was posted on the institute’s YouTube channel on …
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Credits: Lockheed Martin The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin successfully flight tested the second AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) on the service’s B-52 Stratofortress out of Edwards Air Force Base, California, on Aug. 8, 2020. This captive carry flight was conducted with tactical hardware and fully instrumented to …
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Credits: Минобороны России / Youtube Russian flight test center flew a Su-57 stealth fighter jet without a canopy to better assess the stresses and strains on the aircraft and pilot during an emergency egress procedure. The full video, seen below, was posted on the Russian Ministry of Defense’s YouTube channel …
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PHOTO © 2020 PLANET LABS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REPRINTED BY PERMISSION Satellite imagery shows Turkish Air Force F-16 Viper fighter jets at Ganja International Airport in Azerbaijan earlier this month. This is the first hard evidence that at least some of these jets were in that country after fighting …
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An F-35A Lightning II Fighting flies past the Wasatch Mountains by Hill Air Force Base on Dec 7, 2016. The F-35A is a single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation, multirole fighter that’s able to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew …
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Credits: Russian Air Force Recent videos from Russia indicate that the country may be on the verge of introducing significant new air-to-air missile capabilities to its most advanced combat jets. One clip shows a Su-57 Felon advanced combat jet carrying one, or perhaps two, new variants of the R-77 medium-range …
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