Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby gave more details on weapons shipping to Ukraine during a briefing on March 21, 2022. “I would say that Ukrainians have been extraordinarily effective at preventing the Russians from achieving air superiority by the agility and the nimble way in which they are marshaling their own air defense resources,” Pentagon…
A Jet2 flight heading from Manchester to Turkey was forced to divert to Vienna after an “out of control” woman became disruptive and slapped other passengers. A plane was forced to divert after an “out of control” woman became aggressive and allegedly slapped another passenger on board. The Jet2 flight headed to Antalya, Turkey left…
Hungarian fighter jets were scrambled on Monday due to unidentified aircraft from Ukraine. Hungarian Gripen fighter jets were scrambled on Monday afternoon due to an unidentified aircraft crossing into the country’s airspace from Ukraine, the defence ministry said on Monday evening. The NATO joint air operations command ordered the jets into the air after an…
China’s aviation authority said Monday that a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane had crashed with 132 people on board, including 123 passengers and nine crew members. Contact was lost with the flight over Wuzhou, in the Guangxi region, the authority said. It was scheduled to fly from Kunming to Guangzhou in the southeast…
Russia’s claim it used a hypersonic missile in Ukraine was a way to reclaim war momentum, but the next-generation weaponry has not proved to be a “game changer,” the Pentagon’s chief said Sunday. Moscow has said it has fired two hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, and while US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would not “confirm or…
Tonight, a journalist in Kyiv shared a video of aircraft systems firing something in the sky. Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent of NBCnews, shared a video on Twitter, from Kyiv. It shows the anti aircraft systems firing at something relatively hight in the sky of Kyiv tonight.
A crew of four was out on training assignments and was scheduled to land just before 6 pm in Northern Norway. A rescue helicopter together with an Orion aircraft have taken off to start research. But the weather conditions are challenging and are expected to get even worse in the future, says press officer Jan…
Russia’s biggest cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Group has suspended all flights using Boeing aircraft due to Western sanctions, it said on Friday. Sanctions have cut off the supply of most aircraft and parts to Russia. The United States and Europe have closed their airspace to Russian airlines, and Moscow has responded by imposing the same measure…
A Russian missile attack on Lviv airport in western Ukraine has destroyed a factory, and damaged a bus repair garage. City residents were woken by air raid sirens just before dawn and the mayor of Lviv said “several missiles hit an aircraft repair factory.” Writing on Telegram, mayor Andriy Sadovy said the aircraft repair building…
A Russian-European mission to land a rover on Mars has been suspended due to sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and its “tragic consequences”, the European Space Agency said Thursday. “We deeply deplore the human casualties and tragic consequences of the aggression towards Ukraine,” the agency said as it confirmed the suspension of the ExoMars…
Roll out of the integrated Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is slated for Thursday, March 17. The rollout involves a 4-mile journey between the Vehicle Assembly Building and the launch pad, expected to take between six and 12 hours. At the pad,…
A trainer jet manufactured by Leonardo crashed near the town of Como in northern Italy on Wednesday and one of the two pilots has died, the defence group said. Witnesses in the area reported seeing a fireball crashing on the mountain wall. Two helicopters from Como and Milan immediately took off to search the aircraft.…