History

  The Pakistan Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces founded on 14 August 1947. As of 2017, per IISS, the PAF has 70,000 personnel and  It operates 883 aircraft History of PAKISTAN AIRFORCE In 1933, British colonial government of India established the subcontinent’s first …

  Article Source: The National Interest  On July 30, 1970, five Soviet MiG-21 fighters jets were Shot Down by the Israeli Air Force in just three minutes. In 1970 U.S. air strikes killed hundreds, including Russian mercenaries. As Israel attacks Syrian targets or Iranian forces inside Syria. The Threat of …

  Article Source: The Aiationist on Apr. 22, 1996 a  mid-air  Collision occurred between two F/A-18As (BuNo. 162454 and BuNo. 162475) from VFC-12 Fighting Omars. The two Hornets, along with another F/A-18, were playing the MiG-29 role during a Strike Fighter Advanced Readiness Program sortie. Flown by the Flight Lead …

  Project Habakkuk was an ill-fated projected designed to harness natural resources into weapons of war. It did not go well. In 1942, British ships were facing major threats from German U-Boats. Supplies were scarce, and German submarines were taking down British supply ships, preventing them from reaching their final …

In the final year of the Vietnam War, a series of offensives by the North Vietnamese led to the fall of the South Vietnamese capital Saigon on April 30, 1975. One of the most iconic images from the fall of Saigon did not happen in Saigon. It happened at sea …

Article Source: mentalfloss During the Cold War, the United States military misplaced at least eight nuclear weapons permanently. These are the stories of what the Department of Defense calls “broken arrows” America’s stray nukes, with a combined explosive force 2,200 times the Hiroshima bomb.  Nuclear Bomb Lost Into the Pacific in …

The Above Video is Air Force film “Champion of Champions” was produced in the early 1960s Brigadier General James M Stewart, USAF (ret) did the narration and makes several appearances in the film. In fact, he climbs out of the pilot’s seat of a Convair B-58 Hustler appearing in the film’s …

Article Source: AVGEEKERY.COM On July 8th 1991, a US Navy Grumman E-2C Hawk-eye early warning and control aircraft was shot down by a US Navy McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet approximately 40 miles southeast of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The Hornet utilized its M61A1 20 millimeter Vulcan cannon to …

  According to Defence Blog Article Published on 16 July 2018. Israeli Patriot Interceptor Missile shot down a Russian Unmanned Air Vehicle On July 11, 2018, Israel’s military fired a Patriot missile at an unmanned drone near the Burayqah of the Syrian province of El Quneitra over the territory of the …

The humble condom — The U.S. military began issuing condom in the 1930s as a barrier against infection. But for decades many soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines often used condoms as field-expedient fixes when other solutions weren’t found in the manual. A rubber is elastic, waterproof, comes in a handy packet …