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Spain Set To Join Franco-German Stealth sixth-generation fighter jet Spain has formally announced its interest in joining the Franco-German stealth fighter project, commonly referred to as the Next Generation Weapon System, or NGWS. Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles “requests that the Spanish incorporation be formalized, through the signing of a …

DARPA’s New microchip lets one pilot control multiple aircraft in the brain A person with a brain chip can now pilot a swarm of drones — or even advanced fighter jets, thanks to research funded by the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. For the first time ever, DARPA has announced …

Dramatic footage shows 17 ‘hostile’ Russian fighter jets buzzed Royal Navy warship near Crimea. The incident described as the most intense encounter between Russia and NATO forces in 25 years. HMS Duncan, a $1.7 billion Type 45 Destroyer, was leading a NATO fleet through the Black Sea when a mix of …

France MQ-9A Reaper UAV crashed near the Niamey Air Base in Niger. The French Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle or remotely piloted aircraft has crashed near the Niamey Air Base in Niger on 17 November. The Reaper UAV was returning to Niamey air base …

Last Surviving ATOMIC BOMB FLIGHT Crewman Breaks His Silence Russell Gackenbach was a second lieutenant aircraft navigator and photographer who flew into the heart of Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, as Little Boy, a 9,000-pound uranium-235 atomic bomb was dropped onto Hiroshima, Japan. Russell E. Gackenbach was a navigator in …

Boeing 747-400F suffered a runway excursion after landing. Sky Lease flight GG4854, a Boeing 747-400F, suffered a runway excursion after landing at Halifax International Airport, Canada. The aircraft departed Chicago-O’Hare International Airport, the USA at 07:02 UTC (01:02 local time) and arrived near Halifax at about 09:00 UTC (05:00 local time). …

Badass Pilot Takes The F-4 Phantom II On Its Final Flight. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed for the United States Navy by McDonnell Aircraft. It first entered service in 1960 with the U.S. Navy. Proving …

Four dead in Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk crash in Argelia, Cauca – Colombia. The helicopter crashed under unknown circumstances. It was flying in support of anti-narcotics activities. A black hawk helicopter from the Army Aviation fell to the ground while carrying out an operation against drug trafficking in the rural area of Algeria, …

Two Myanmar F-7 Fighter Jets Crash , Killing Pilots and an 11-Year-Old. Two Myanmar fighter pilots were killed in separate crashes due to heavy fog. “One crashed into a creek while another crashed near a village,” in Minbu Township in the Magway region, regional official Myint Zaw told Anadolu Agency by …

RNZAF T-6C Texan II made a belly landing after landing gear malfunction. A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Beechcraft T-6C Texan II sustained a technical failure mid-air during night training then made a belly landing after a malfunction of the landing gear. “The two RNZAF personnel on board responded as trained …