Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards claims to shot down a U.S. RQ-4 Global Hawk “spy” drone in the southern province of Hormozgan, which is on the Gulf, the Guards’ Update: U.S. officials confirms Iranian missile shoots down U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton drone in international airspace Iran State news agency IRNA carried …
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Russian fighters were scrambled twice to intercept American B-52H bombers, active on the eastern and southern borders. The close encounters between Russian and US planes occurred both above the Baltic and Black seas. In one of the encounters, one of the bombers was flying directly toward the Crimean Peninsula, which …
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A Boeing B-52H Stratofortress, callsign HODOR51, suffered 2 engine inflight failures, then circled over East Anglia as it burnt off fuel before making a safe emergency landing at RAF Mildenhall. No injuries were reported. The American bomber could be seen circling over the RAF Mildenhall area before it touched down …
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French President Emmanuel Macron and the defense ministers of Germany, France, and Spain unveiled the mockup of a sixth-generation combat aircraft France aerospace giant Dassault Aviation and European defense, security and aerospace company Airbus SE just pulled back the curtain on its vision for a sixth-generation fighter jet. The Future Combat …
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Turkey’s TF-X next-generation indigenous fighter was officially unveiled at the Paris Air Show. The full-scale mock-up of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) TF-X fighter jet arrived on the same day that France and Germany revealed of model of their collaborative offering for a sixth-generation fighter at the show, the site …
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The U.S. Air Force has deployed F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets assigned to 494th Fighter Squadron to Turkey for training. According to a news release put out by U.S. Air Force, Strike Eagle aircraft were deployed to Turkey for participating in the exercise of Anatolian Eagle 19 alongside Turkish and …
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The aircraft experienced a mid-air collision with another aircraft while on approach to the Hood Aerodome near the Hughes Line in Masterton, North Island. Both aircraft were consumed by the post-crash fire and the sole pilot on board each airplane was fatally injured. Emergency services were called to the scene …
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The horrific moment when a Yakovlev Yak-52 fell into a river after a stunt-gone-wrong at an airshow in the city of Płock in Poland was caught on camera. An unidentified German aerobatic pilot who was also a “former Lufthansa pilot” according to reports, died on Saturday, June 15, during the …
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The Libyan National Army (LNA) claimed on June 13 that is units had shot down a warplane of the Government of National Accord (GNA) in the northern part of the country. A source from the Misrata Airbase denied that Khalifa Haftar’s forces had downed Air Force aircraft at Al-Dafiniya in …
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According to a leaked Pentagon report, New $100 million F-35 stealth fighter jets can only fly supersonic for short bursts or it may start to ‘crack’ Defense News claims the problem may make it impossible for the F-35 to conduct supersonic intercepts when in combat adding there was a “risk of …
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