F-35 – Credits: USAF , Rezonans-NE Radar System – Credits: Unknown As we have previously reported, A German Radar Vendor Claims To Track Two F-35 Stealth Fighters With A New Radar. Now according to the latest reports, CEO of the Russian RADAR company Rezonans research centre, Alexander Stuchilin claims that …
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The Pentagon has released troubling vide of a so-called ‘unsafe intercept’ between one of its aircraft and Russian fighters. The incident occurred on August 28th, 2020, when the U.S. Air Force sent six B-52s, four of which are forward deployed to RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom, to traverse every …
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Dynetics, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leidos, successfully tested a second X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV), as well as the Gremlins airborne recovery system, last month at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The series of tests focused on risk reduction, as well …
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A U-2 Dragon Lady flies over the Golden Gate Bridge near San Francisco (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert M. Trujillo) China has accused the USAF of sending a U-2 spy plane into a no-fly zone to “trespass” on live-fire exercises being conducted by China below. A supposed overflight by …
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Credits: Baykar Makina The prototype of Turkey’s domestically made combat drone has successfully passed the 20,000-feet (6,096-meters) altitude test. The Bayraktar Akıncı Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) drone completed the test for nearly two-and-a-half hours, manufacturer Baykar said on Twitter. “Bayraktar Akıncı UCAV’s second prototype, PT-2, successfully completed the Medium …
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Russian Kronstadt company has unveiled a concept of newest stealth unmanned aircraft during the sixth International Military and Technical Forum Army-2020 in the Patriot Park near Moscow. The new aircraft, called the Grom (Thunder), to be a runway-independent, reusable unmanned air vehicle capable of a broad range of operational missions. …
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Mil Mi-24/25 – Credits: Alex Beltyukov Yesterday evening, Belarusian MoD scrambled Mi-24 helicopters to intercept these balloons launched from Lithuania in direction of Belarus carrying pro-opposition flags. The flag in question was the country’s official one between 1991 and 1995. The current red-and-green design is based on the flag that …
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Credits: DARPAtv / YouTube Pentagon researchers pitted man against machine in an aerial dogfighting tournament to see if artificial intelligence algorithms can outsmart each other and a human F-16 pilot in combat. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s AlphaDogfight Trials hosted eight teams that have developed advanced AI that can …
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Russian Su-57 and MiG-35 Next Generation Fighters – Credits: Russian Airforce Moscow is planning to send its newest MiG-35 fighter jets to its Khmeimim military base in syria to advertise them to potential buyers. In recent years, Syria has become a real military training ground for testing new Russian weapons. …
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Project Mayhem is U.S. Air Force’s latest hypersonic development program looks to be aimed at acquiring expendable testbeds for new advanced jet engines, including turbine-based combined cycle designs for developing viable hypersonic aircraft, such as Lockheed Martin’s in-development SR-72. The Expendable Hypersonic Multi-Mission Air-Breathing Demonstrator programme, referred to also as …
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