The suicide bombing killed as many as 170 civilians and 13 U.S. troops in the final days of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan. A single Islamic State suicide bomber carried out the attack at Kabul’s international airport in August that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians, and was not joined by…
A plane carrying US troops landed in Poland on Sunday (Feb 6), a Reuters witness said, as Washington reinforces its NATO allies in Eastern Europe amid a Russian military build-up on Ukraine’s border. US President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania, as Washington moves to reassure jittery NATO…
A new video emerged online on Sunday purporting to show the American F-35C fighter jet crash-landing and skidding off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the open sea somewhere south of China. The incident occurred on January 24, when a US Navy F-35C crashed while landing on the USS Carl Vinson…
A military plane suffered a right hand engine issue mid air. A plane coming back from delivering supplies to the state’s flood-impacted regions has had to make an emergency landing after an engine blew. 11 people were on board the aircraft which landed at Edinburgh Airport, Australia.
A U.S. special forces counter-terrorism to conduct a raid in northwest Syria on Thursday targeted the leader of ISIS. U.S. Special Operations forces successfully carried out a counter-terrorism mission in northwest Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said, adding there were no U.S. casualties but gave no further details. Residents of the northwest Syrian town of…
Croatia continues to increase its military capacity, after acquiring the 12 Rafale jets from France in November, now takes delivery of two Black Hawk helicopters. Two UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters arrived in Croatia today. Both helicopters have been delivered to Zagreb’s Franjo Tuđman airport via a US military C-17 for strategic transport. It is a…
Royal Norwegian Air Force F-35s scrambled from Evenes airbase in Northern Norway to identify Russian aircraft operating in the High North, February 2. The Norwegian Control and Response Center at Sørreisa ordered the Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) scramble after multiple Russian aircraft were detected flying out of the Kola Peninsula. The F-35s launched over the…
US President Joe Biden has ordered the deployment of thousands of troops to Eastern Europe as tensions with Russia escalate over Moscow’s potential invasions of Ukraine, American officials said Wednesday. The number of troops to be deployed stands at around 3,000, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing US officials. “They are trained and equipped for…
A Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) mission is currently in progress. RAF Typhoon jets have been scrambled to intercept Russian aircraft, North of UK. A RAF tanker has also been scrambled from RAF Brize Norton. A source says at least 3 bombers in the air with the support of 3 tankers. An RAF Spokesperson confirmed: “Quick…
An F-35C had a “landing mishap” on the deck of USS Carl Vinson on Monday in the South China Sea. Here is a leaked video footage of the landing mishap on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) nuclear aircraft carrier on January 24, 2022. At the end, the moment of the pilot’s ejection…
An F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter had a “landing mishap” on the deck of USS Carl Vinson on Monday in the South China Sea. The photo of the incident has been published today on reddit. The F-35C Lightning II, which is assigned to Carrier Air Wing 2, was conducting routine flight operations in the…
The fighter plane fell into the disputed waters after a landing accident on Monday in which seven sailors were hurt. The United States Navy is making arrangements to recover an F-35C fighter jet that fell into the South China Sea after an accident as the pilot attempted a landing on the USS Carl Vinson aircraft…