NATO fighter jets were scrambled 2 times over East Europe on 18 February. Belgian F-16s on NATO Air Policing intercepted 2 Russian Su-27s and an IL-22 COOT flying near Allied airspace in the Baltics. On the same day Polish F-16s intercepted a Russian TU-134 CRUSTY, escorted by 2x MiG-31s and 2x Su-27 Flankers that had…
A mysterious object floating over Hawaii prompted the U.S. military to scramble fighter jets to investigate, authorities reported. The object seen over Kauai on Monday, Feb. 14, appeared to be an unmanned balloon with no identification markings, Maj. Gen. Kenneth Hara, Hawaii’s adjutant general, said in a series of Twitter posts. Local officials and onlookers…
Three people have been killed after an army warplane crashed in an urban area in Iran’s Tabriz. Two pilots and a civilian sitting in a parked vehicle were killed in the incident. Local army official Reza Yousefi told state media at the site of the crash that the aircraft was an F5 model used for…
A German military aircraft carrying troop reinforcements landed at Lithuania’s Kaunas airport on Monday, amid fears in the region over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. The A400M airplane carried around 70 troops of what is expected to grow to a 360-strong German deployment, which comes on top of existing NATO forces in the region,…
F-16s from the Portuguese detachment in Iceland escorted U.S. Air Force B-52s on their way to RAF Fairford. Allied F-16s from the Portuguese detachment in Iceland and Typhoons from the UK met the U.S. B-52 to work out air-to-air maneuvers and escort the bomber to RAF Fairford to execute the long-planned Bomber Task Force (BTF)…
US Air Force B-52 bombers were spotted overhead this morning heading for RAF Fairford. A C5 Galaxy military transporter plane arriving early this morning, packed with US air crew and supplies. Following that, four B-52s set off from their Minot Air Base around 2am GMT, with a brief refuelling over Nova Scotia before making their…
American fighter aircraft arrived at Łask Air Base, Poland, February 10, to enhance NATO’s collective defence posture and support the NATO Air Policing mission. U.S. F-15C and F-15D Eagles from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath, U.K. will work alongside the Polish and Danish F-16 aircraft already executing NATO’s Air Policing mission from Siauliai…
Indonesia will order 42 Rafale fighter jets, France’s defence minister said on Thursday. “It’s official: Indonesia orders 42 Rafales”, Defence Minister Florence Parly said in a Tweet during a visit to the Southeast Asian country. The order would make Indonesia the second state in the Indo-Pacific region after India to rely on the jet produced…
A French Navy military jet had to cut short a flight and land in Malta after it encountered problems with refuelling mid-air last night. A Malta International Airport spokesperson confirmed with The Malta Independent that a French Dassault Rafale military jet landed safely at the airport at 19:30 on Sunday as it did not have…
An Antonov plane has crashed in the disputed South Sudanese area of Abyei killing none of the passengers. According to a senior government official there, the Antonov An-26 (reg.SP-402) was coming from South Sudan’s capital Juba carrying primary leaving certificate’s examination paper when it missed the runway and landed on the road instead. “The plane…
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…