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As we have reported earlier that on February 11, 2020, the Syrian Air Force helicopter was shot down in the country’s northwest, killing the two crew members on board in a fiery crash. According to the initial reports, the Syrian regime helicopter was reportedly shot down by Syrian rebels fighters …

A 9th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron team recovers a U-2 Dragon Lady June 26, 2019, at Beale Air Force Base, California. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Tristan D. Viglianco) After nearly 70 years of service, the U.S. Air Force plans to retire its fleet of U-2 Dragon Lady spyplanes …

An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to the “Sunliners” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 81, sits on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the Mediterranean Sea (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Megan Wollam/Released) According to the USNI report, …

Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski has revealed that they had to get special permission from the Navy for one of “the most extreme” stunts in the movie. The first teaser clip of the highly-anticipated sequel to the 1986 classic featured Tom Cruise’s Maverick flying at a pretty low altitude …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …