A Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet being flown by a U.S. Air Force pilot was forced to make an emergency landing at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Hawaii. A Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet made an emergency landing at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Hawaii on Monday afternoon. The pilot was sent to the hospital…
China’s most advanced aircraft carrier to date appears to be nearing completion, satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press s, as experts suggested the vessel could be launched soon. The newly developed Type 003 carrier has been under construction at the Jiangnan Shipyard northeast of Shanghai since 2018. Satellite images taken by Planet Labs PBC…
A Chinese J-7 fighter jet has crashed during training. A J-7 fighter jet of the PLA Air Force crashed in Xiangyang, Central China’s Hubei Province on Thursday morning during training, leading to damage to residential buildings. Two civilians injured, one dead, pilot ejected safely, according to media reports. The injured pilot and personnel on the…
Australia has accused the pilot of a Chinese fighter jet of carrying out a dangerous manoeuvre near one of its aircraft over the South China Sea. It says the Chinese aircraft released flares and cut in front of the Australian surveillance plane. The Chinese jet then released “chaff” – an anti-radar device which includes small…
Two RAF jets broke the sound barrier over the West Country as they were scrambled from their base in the east of England today. The Typhoons were taking part in a Quick Reaction Alert intercept exercise which saw them race from their base at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and speed across the Midlands, flying over…
The Ministry of Defence will support Qatar with military capabilities to counter terrorism and other threats to the tournament. This will include maritime security support from the Royal Navy, advanced venue search training, operational planning and command and control support, and further specialist advice. The Joint Typhoon Squadron, also known as 12 Squadron, is based…
A group of NATO fighters flew over the western part of the Black Sea, avia.pro website reports. The airplanes of the North Atlantic Alliance were seen near Ukraine’s Snake Island (Zmeiny Ostrov), which remains under the control of the Russian troops, where hostilities took place in early May. On Victory Day, the Russian Armed Forces…
Finland will deploy the US-made F-35 fighter jets to its northernmost region, Lapland, to deter the aggression from Russia as it seeks membership in the defensive alliance NATO. Helsinki is expected to receive the first batch of the aircraft in four years’ time, the country’s air force reportedly said in a statement. Finland Air Force…
Nato fighter jets have intercepted Russian aircraft near Finland’s border with Norway. Intelligence identified the aircraft as a Mikoyan MiG-31 ‘Foxhound’ and a Sukhoi Su-24 ‘Fencer’ jet. Nato scrambled F-35 fighter jets yesterday amid rising tensions between Finland and Russia. The Russian jets had been spotted near Finnmark, in Norway’s far north, but did not…
Turkey’s most advanced and sophisticated drone has conducted an unprecedented flight that saw it departing from northwestern Turkey and landing in Azerbaijan. Two Akıncı drones took off from northwestern Tekirdağ’s Çorlu district on Saturday, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon hours, and traveled through Turkey and Georgia before they landed at…
Two Rafale planes collided mid-air during an airshow at the 709 base in Cognac-Châteaubernard this Sunday, May 22. The incident happened at 12:40 p.m., this Sunday, May 22, in the middle of the national airshow on the air base 709 Cognac-Châteaubernard military base Two Rafale fighter jets collided mid-air during their tactical presentation but fortunately,…
Russia is taping basic GPS devices to its fighter jets’ dashboards, the UK’s defense minister said. Wrecked Russian fighter jets are being found with rudimentary GPS receivers “taped to the dashboards” in Ukraine because their inbuilt navigation systems are so bad, the UK’s defense secretary, Ben Wallace, said. Speaking at the National Army Museum in…