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In the Cold War era, Swedish JA-37 Jas Viggen fighter pilots were scrambled on 400-500 live Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) missions per year to intercept any unidentified aircraft approaching Swedish airspace. QRA targets came from both Warsaw and NATO nations During that QRA missions, JA-37 Jas Viggen fighter pilots were …

Fears of imminent war between Iran and the United States subsided after the US assassinated a top Iranian commander and Tehran hit bases housing American troops in Iraq with ballistic missiles. But Iran warned the US against further attacks after it launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at the …

The Syrian government’s plans to purchase MiG-21 fighters from Egypt were recently discovered by Zaman Al Wasl, a Syrian leading news site. According to the publication, Damascus sent a military-technical delegation of the Syrian Air Force command to Cairo to inspect several aircraft parked at the Egyptian airbases with the …

Source: Sierra Technical Sierra Technical Services recently unveils ‘faster’ and ‘more maneuverable’ stealth UAVs. According to Flight global stealth UAV completed several ground tests, including an engine test run, on its Fifth Generation Aerial Target (5GAT) aircraft. The aircraft, which is powered by two General Electric J85 engines salvaged from retired …

A mock-up of the Tempest -Credits: Swadim Via Wikipedia on July 16, 2018, Britain’s Defense Minister Gavin Williamson unveiled a model of the country’s proposed new fighter jet named Tempest at the Farnborough Airshow. Britain’s Rolls Royce, the world’s second-largest manufacturer of aircraft engines, has announced that it has begun …

Tupolev-PAK-DA – Credits: Ministry of Defense of Russia According to Russian media reports, Russia will build three prototypes of its next-generation nuclear-capable strategic bomber, dubbed Tupolev PAK DA for evaluation and testing. Citing a research and development contract between the Russian government and the Tupolev design bureau signed at the …

Taken during Operation Desert Storm on board USS Saratoga (CV-60), the shocking video in this post-show is a VAW-125 Tigertails E-2C Hawkeye sliding on the oily flight deck while taxing aft to the waist catapults. While sliding on the flight deck, the E-2C cut off the nose of an F-14 …

U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet with the Strike Fighter Squadron 32 at Naval Air Station Oceana (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Mercedes Wilds) Boeing announced that Boeing and the U.S. Navy flew a F/A-18 Super Hornet tactical aircraft equipped with an Infrared Search & Track Block …

Sixteen Egyptian Air Force MiG-29M/M2 fulcrum jets staged “Elephant Walk to carry out massive “show of force” during the Qadir-2020 exercise. Here are some cool images of more than a dozen Egyptian Fulcrums taking part in a readiness exercise. An elephant walk is a term for the taxing of military aircraft …

According to the Syrian army, Israeli fighter jets have attacked the main T4 airbase in Homs province. An army spokesman told state media on Tuesday that four Israeli missiles did reach the base but said air defences intercepted and destroyed several others. He also added that its air defences downed …