History

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 …

The Below 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 …

  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 …

Number 20 Squadron of the Royal Air Force No. 20 (R) Squadron of the Royal Air Force was from September 1992 until March 2010 It is a  reserve squadron, it could be called upon for combat duties if necessary The 20th Squadron was rearmed on Jaguar with Harrier fighters, new …

YF-16CCV: F-16 Fighting Falcon Variant   A characteristic feature of the YF-16CCV (the aircraft with the configuration defined by the control system) was two additional inclined front rudders under the air intake. The aircraft was used for “independent” tests on maneuverability. Here the term “independence” meant the ability to maneuver …

On May 17, 1987, the U.S. Navy guided-missile frigate USS Stark was on a patrol in the central Persian Gulf At night, Stark came under attack from an apparent Iraqi Air Force jet Aircraft. An Iraqi pilot attacked USS Stark in a Dassault Falcon 50 modified business jet armed. American …

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 Rolf Jonsson, a retired Swedish Air Force (Svenska Flygvapnet) fighter controller …

Battle of the Heligoland   image from cranstonfinearts The Battle of the Heligoland Bight was the first “named” air battle of the Second World War, which began the longest air campaign of the war, the Defence of the Reich. On 3 September 1939, the United Kingdom declared war on Nazi Germany …

On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. The single-seat aircraft, flown by pilot Francis Gary Powers, was hit by an S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missile and crashed near …