Taiwan’s air force scrambled for the second day in a row on Monday to intercept Chinese jets that approached the island claimed by Beijing as its own, as tensions between the two took on a potentially dangerous military dimension. The Chinese planes, consisting of J-11 jet fighters, KJ-500 early warning …
Read More »U.S. Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Has 873 Unresolved Deficiencies
An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 421st Fighter Squadron prepares to launch during Red Flag 20-1 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Feb. 3, 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw) According to Flightglobal report, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II has 873 unresolved deficiencies and new …
Read More »Iran Displays Wreckage Of U.S. RQ-4A Global Hawk Drone Shoot-down By IRGC
On June 20, 2019, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s (IRGC) shot down a United States RQ-4A Global Hawk BAMS-D surveillance drone with a surface-to-air missile over the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials said that the drone violated their airspace, while U.S. officials responded that the drone was in international airspace. …
Read More »Here’s The Only Fighter Jet Equipped With DIRCM
Directional Infrared Counter Measures (DIRCM) is a system to protect aircraft from infrared homing (“heat-seeking”) man-portable missiles. It is a lightweight, compact system designed to provide mission-vulnerable aircraft with increased protection from common battlefield threats. It is more advanced than conventional infrared countermeasures. Russian new Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter jet …
Read More »Watch: F/A-18 Low-Level Flyover That Cost VMFA-225 Squadron Commander His Job
As we have reported earlier that on Jan. 24, 2020, U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Ralph Featherstone, the commanding officer (CO) of Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron has been fired for making a low-level flypast during the unit’s sundown the ceremony of the F/A-18D. The video obtained by the San …
Read More »Pakistan Air Force To Receive First 12 JF-17B Thunder Multirole Combat Aircraft
According to Jane Pakistan Air Force to receive the first 12 of 26 twin-seat JF-17B Thunder ‘in the near future’. Eight of these aircraft were built at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) in Kamra, while the remaining four were constructed by the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAIG) in China, where the …
Read More »New Top Gun Pilots: Rooster, Pheonix, Hangman, BOB, Fanboy & Payback
Paramount just released a new set of photos that introduces some of the newcomers who will have a role to play in Maverick. We still don’t know a whole lot about the story, but these are the people we’ll presumably be spending a lot of time with. Highlighting Miles Teller …
Read More »Marine Fighter Attack Squadron CO Fired For Making F/A-18 Hornet Low-Level Pass
on Jan. 24, 2020, U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Ralph Featherstone, the commanding officer (CO) of Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron has been fired for making a low-level flypast during the unit’s sundown the ceremony of the F/A-18D. An anonymous source told Marine Corps Times that the flight was lower …
Read More »Saab’s Gripen & GlobalEye Aircraft Participating In Finnish HX Fighter Procurement Programme
Gripen E test aircraft 39-10 arrived at Tampere-Pirkkala Airbase on 29 January, kicking off a one-week evaluation campaign that will include Gripen NG 39-7 as well as a GlobalEye AEW&C aircraft flying from Sweden. Source: Jane’s/Gareth Jennings Saab has officially launched the flight evaluation phase of its Gripen E/F fighter …
Read More »U.S. Air Force Releases Artist Rendering Of A B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber
Artist rendering of a B-21 Raider concept in a hangar at Dyess, Air Force Base, Texas, one of the future bases to host the new airframe. (Courtesy photo by Northrop Grumman) U.S. Air Force together with the bomber’s manufacturer, Northrop Grumman, published three new concepts of the next-generation bomber, showing …
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