First flight AT-5 Brave Eagle – Photo credits: Tsungfang Tsai On 10 June 2020, Taiwan’s newly manufactured advanced jet training aircraft, the Aerospace Industrial Development Corp (AIDC) T-5 (AT-5) Yung Ying (“Brave Eagle”), serial 11001/08-9001, took to the air for its maiden flight at Ching Chuan Kang Air Force Base. …
Read More »IAF Airlifts Dozens Of T-90 Tanks To Ladakh To Counter China
C-17 carried out an operational mission, airlifting 18 tonnes of load into the Tuting airfield. ( Picture credit: IAF twitter) As military build-up on both sides of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh continues, a constant stream of IAF heavy lift aircraft have airlifted dozens of additional …
Read More »MiG-29s and Su-30s wouldn’t Help IAF Against PLAAF: U.S. Military Analyst
In the middle of the standoff that India has with China, the Indian Air Force has pushed a proposal to the government for acquiring 33 new fighter aircraft, including 21 MiG-29s and 12 Su-30MKIs from Russia. “The Air Force has been working on this plan for some time but they …
Read More »Watch Hilarious Dogfight: Instructor Fighter Pilot Screams “Kill Him! Kill Him!”
In this article, we will share with you the hilarious Dogfight video. The video seems to have surfaced about ten years ago. In the video, a student in a T-38C getting a handle on basic fighter maneuvers (BFM), more commonly and broadly referred to as dogfighting, in a one versus …
Read More »U.S. Navy Inverted EA-18G Growler For Testing Next Generation Jammer-Low Band Pod
Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) team conducts final Demonstration of Existing Technologies testing on prototype pods from L3Harris and Northrop Grumman Corporation simultaneously at the Facility for Antenna and RCS Measurement (shown here) and Air Combat Environmental Test and Evaluation Facility, located at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. …
Read More »U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Fleet Facing Engine Shortage: Report
Engine nozzles of the F-22 (picture source). The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is a single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft developed for the United States Air Force (USAF). The U.S. Department of Defense announced the decision to end F-22 production at 187 aircraft in April 2009. The Air Force received …
Read More »IAF Should Buy MiG-35 and Su-57 Instead Of More MiG-29s and Su-30MKIs To Counter China
Russian Su-57 and MiG-35 Next Generation Fighters – Credits: Russian Airforce As we have reported earlier, In the middle of the standoff that India has with China, the Indian Air Force has pushed a proposal to the government for acquiring 33 new fighter aircraft, including 21 MiG-29s and 12 Su-30MKIs from …
Read More »Shocking Video Shows Fighter Jet Towing Instructor Giving Taxi Instructions From A Sledge
An RNoAF F-5A towing instructor on a sledge in Norway. (Image: screenshot from the video below). The Royal Norwegian Air Force is the air force of Norway. It was established as a separate arm of the Norwegian Armed Forces on 10 November 1944. Shocking footage below shows an F-5A Freedom …
Read More »Amid Border Tension India’s Air-Launched BrahMos Missile Receives Combat Clearance
IAF plans to Modify 40 Su-30MKI To Fit Air-Launched Version Of BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile Amid the ongoing border standoff with China, the air-launched Brahmos had received combat clearance before the India-China troops clashed on Tuesday. The air-launched version of the BrahMos missile, named after India’s Brahmaputra River and Russia’s …
Read More »Mysterious U.S. Stealth Plane Model 401 Seen Covered In Mirrors During Test Flights
© CC BY-SA 4.0 / Alpha Henry / Scaled Composites Model 401 As we have reported earlier, the sophisticated US stealth plane Model 401 with “odd markings” on its fuselage made another test flight. The mystery aircraft, developed by Northrop Grumman subsidiary Scaled Composites, flew over the Mojave Desert in …
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