The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber task force are being sent to “send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime,” White House national security adviser John Bolton said in a statement on Sunday. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the new head of US Central Command, requested …
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At least 29 people died in bloody Israel-Gaza Airstrike and Rockets attacks, signalling a violent resurgence for the first time in years Four Israelis and 24 Palestinians were killed in a resurgence of deadly violence the two areas haven’t seen since 2014. The four Israelis were the first civilians to …
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Aeroflot flight 1492, a Sukhoi Superjet 100-95B, returned to land at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in Russia. Forty-one people are believed to have died after a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing at Moscow’s busiest airport and caught fire, investigators said on Sunday. ‘There were 78 people including crew members …
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A Venezuelan military helicopter crashed close to Caracas on Saturday, killing all seven people on board, the defence ministry said in a statement. The helicopter was to fly from Caracas, the capital, to the west-central state of Cojedes when it “went to ground”, the statement said, adding that authorities were …
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on April 23, 2019, the Air Force Research Laboratory has announced successfully shot down multiple missiles with a laser weapon that could eventually defend fighters and other aircraft against existing and emerging missile threats. The Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) program is developing a directed energy laser system on an …
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A Boeing 737 carrying 140 people has crashed at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida. The incident happened at 9:40 PM when the Miami Air International plane skidded off the runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida and into the St. Johns River. Boeing 737-800 attempting to land …
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Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard successfully managed a surveillance flight over a U.S. aircraft carrier, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Saturday. The report included footage apparently from a Guard drone that flew over the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and another U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf. The images show fighter …
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A program to train Afghan attack pilots has been ended after the airmen kept going absent without leave, or AWOL, while training in the United States. More than 40 per cent of the Afghan Air Force students enrolled in the U.S.-based training program to fly the AC-208 Combat Caravan, a …
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A T-6 Texan II training aircraft from Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas crashed near Lake Waurika in Oklahoma The pilot and co-pilot are believed to have safely ejected from the plane The crash occurred shortly before 2 p.m. near Lake Waurika, Oklahoma, roughly 40 miles from the training base …
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on April 30, 2019, U.S. Air Force has finally flown its variant of the F-35 in combat, using two of the aircraft to take out an ISIS tunnel network and weapons cache in Iraq Two Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II belonging to the contingent from active duty 388th and reserve …
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