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An Indian Air Force Jaguar pilot jettisoned fuel tanks of his aircraft after one of the engines of the fighter jet failed after being hit by a bird. However, the pilot managed to land the plane safely at the Ambala Air Base. Small practice bombs jettisoned by the aircraft have …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The U.S. military confirmed on Thursday that one of its drones was shot down and said the incident took place in international airspace, challenging Iran’s account that the U.S. aircraft had been flying over Iranian territory. The smoke trail of a U.S. Navy drone that was shot out of the …

Video footage of Iran’s air defenses shooting down a high-altitude US Navy surveillance drone has been posted on social media by the Iranian military. Iran Military Tube, a YouTube channel that describes itself as the force’s unofficial media center, published a 52-second-long video that seems to show an Iranian missile …

The Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano is a Brazilian turboprop light attack aircraft. The A-29 Super Tucano carries a wide variety of weapons, including precision-guided munitions, and was designed to be a low-cost system operated in low-threat environments. The A-29 is turboprop light attack aircraft designed and built by Embraer …

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) has demonstrated its awesome combat power and capabilities during monumental mass flight at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif, which featured more than 40 aircraft. The Marine Corps carried out a huge ‘elephant walk’ exercise with its MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and CH-53E Super …

The Final Countdown is a 1980 alternate history science fiction film about a modern aircraft carrier that travels through time to the day before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. We all think about it sometimes – technology has come so far, and though our favorite WWII planes were once …