Seven Navy sailors assigned to the USS George Washington have died by suicide during the time the aircraft carrier has been undergoing a yearslong overhaul in Newport News, Virginia. The Navy acknowledged Thursday that in addition to the four suicides in the past year, three more sailors assigned to the carrier died by suicide in…
A Russian reconnaissance plane briefly violated Sweden’s airspace yesterday, Swedish defence officials said today. The Swedish Air Force scrambled fighter jets which photographed the Russian plane. “A Russian AN-30 propeller plane violated Swedish airspace on Friday evening,” the Swedish defence ministry said in a statement, adding that its teams had followed the incident and photographed…
Ukrainian forces have used specific coordinates shared by the U.S. to direct fire on Russian positions and aircraft, current and former officials told NBC News. As Russia launched its invasion, the U.S. gave Ukrainian forces detailed intelligence about exactly when and where Russian missiles and bombs were intended to strike, prompting Ukraine to move air…
A footage emerged showing an Ukrainian MiG-29 taking off from Mykolaiv seconds before the runway was shelled by the Russians. Back in March, an Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 pilot from 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade in Kulbakino took off from Mykolaiv Air Base while the Russian Army was shelling the air base. Few seconds after takeoff,…
Another RAAF C-17 was loaded with military assistance, bound for Ukraine. Air Movements Operators from No. 23 Squadron loaded military assistance bound for Ukraine onto a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III aircraft at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland. The Australian Government are providing six M777 155mm lightweight towed howitzers and 155mm howitzer ammunition to…
Britain’s biggest warship sailed within 900 miles of the North Pole as the Royal Navy pushed the boundaries of aircraft carrier operations into the Arctic. HMS Prince of Wales led a task group to 77 Degrees North in the North Atlantic to demonstrate the ability of the UK’s two 65,000-tonne Queen Elizabeth-class carriers to operate…
A large fire broke out early on Monday at an oil storage facility in the Russian city of Bryansk, the emergencies ministry said, adding that no one was injured. Two locations in the western Russian city of Bryansk where oil is stored were seen ablaze overnight on April 25, according to numerous open-source intelligence reports…
The government of India cancelled an order of 48 Mil Mi-17 V5 helicopters of Russian manufacture in the last days. However this decision is not linked to the war in Ukraine, the order is cancelled with the aim of encouraging the local production of aircraft. Those of Moscow are multi-role rotary wing aircraft manufactured in…
A transport plane has crashed in south Ukraine on technical flight. A Ukrainian AN-26 transport plane crashed during a “technical flight” in southern Ukraine on Friday and there were casualties, local authorities said. UPDATE The Zaporizhzhia regional administration said that, according to preliminary and unconfirmed information, the plane hit an electricity pole and the engine…
As one of the smallest militaries in NATO, Slovakia is playing an important part in providing Ukraine with the types of armament it requires to hold off Russia’s invasion. According to oryx, Slovakia is currently considering donating its entire fleet of MiG-29 fighter aircraft to Ukraine. The delivery of MiG-29s to Ukraine would be a…
A US aircraft was patrolling the Black Sea in the hours before the Moskva was hit by Ukrainian missiles, The Times reveals. A Boeing P8 Poseidon was within 100 miles of the Moskva on the day the Russian cruiser sustained catastrophic damage. Hundreds of sailors are thought to have died when the flagship of the…
Ukraine received fighter jets and spare parts from US allies said the Pentagon. John Kirby clarified that the United States helped with the delivery of additional spare parts, but did not transport the “whole” plane. He did not specify which country/countries provided the aircraft. Credit: Plane Spotters Bacau