US Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer recently sailed through the Strait of Hormuz with an armored vehicle strapped to the flight deck, ready to fight off drones and Iranian gunboats. Photos from a recent Strait of Hormuz transit by the US Navy amphibious assault ship USS Boxer …
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Norway’s first battery-powered Alpha Electro G2 airplane crashed into a lake yesterday, Reuters reports. While no one was harmed in the crash, the incident could be a set back for the country, which hopes to electrify all domestic flights by 2040. It’s still unclear why the electric plane, an Alpha Electro …
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The Trump administration is moving forward with an $8 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, American officials said Friday. The move is certain to further anger China at a time when a long-running trade war between Washington and Beijing has upended relations between the world’s two largest economies …
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U.S. Navy Blue Angels pilots broke out of formation and landed immediately after two of their jets touched while practicing a maneuver that puts them in extremely close proximity. Jets Nos. 1 and 3 made contactwhile training at their home base at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, said Lt. Michelle …
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Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abinandan Varthaman whose Mig-21 Bison was shot down on February 27 during a dogfight with Pakistan Air Force jets – could not hear instructions asking him to turn back because his communications system was jammed by the enemy, according to Indian Air Force (IAF) and …
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An international team of researchers has traced an unusual 2017 radioactive release that blanketed a large part of Europe to Russia. The cloud was not harmful outside of Russia, according to the paper published in scientific journal PNAS, but researchers said there may have been a more serious fallout in the …
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The Navy may need more than $5 billion to return Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake to a “mission capable” status following a series of earthquakes back in July. A pair of major earthquakes, with registered magnitudes of 6.4 and 7.1, along with thousands of aftershocks, rocked the base and …
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Ural Airlines Flight U6-178, an Airbus A321-211, registration VQ-BOZ, performing flight U6-178 from Moscow Zhukovsky (Russia) to Simferopol (Ukraine), was substantially damaged when it force landed to a cornfield shortly after takeoff due to a dual bird strike and engine failure. The aircraft with 226 passengers and 7 crew, was …
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A Sukhoi Su-22M-4 fighter jet of the Syrian Air Force was shot down by the jihadist group Tahrir al-Sham near Al-Tamanah, Idlib governorate. See Details: Syrian Rebels shoot down Syrian Air Force Sukhoi Su-22M-4 fighter-bomber in Idlib, Pilot captured after ejection A pilot who ejected from the plane was captured, …
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A Sukhoi Su-22M-4 fighter jet of the Syrian Air Force was shot down by the jihadist group Tahrir al-Sham near Al-Tamanah, Idlib governorate. A pilot who ejected from the plane was captured, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which reports on the war using a network of sources. …
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