An Ethiopian Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft was shot down by Tigray People’s Liberation Front on June 23 near Gijet in the Tigray region, killing dozens of people on board. The C-130 Hercules transport aircraft (serial 1564, MSN 3822), belonging to Squadron 15 at Debre Zeit Air Base, was reportedly transporting explosives and ammunition in…
A Russian warship has fired warning shots after the HMS Defender, a British Royal Navy destroyer, violated Russia’s maritime borders in the Black Sea, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced Wednesday. Moscow urged the United States and its NATO allies to stop military operations in the Black Sea region, calling instead for “multilateral efforts” aimed…
Antonov Airlines safely transported five Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk utility-helicopters on a single AN-124-100 flight from Poland to the Philippines. The AN-124 completed the second consignment of the Polish-built helicopter under a government-to-government agreement from Rzeszów, Poland, to Angeles, the Philippines. Each of these utility helicopters weighed 5.6 tonnes, and the overall cargo weighted 35…
28 Chinese military planes entered Taiwan’s air defense zone in largest fly-over to date, Taipei says. Taiwan’s government has reported that 28 Chinese planes, including fighter jets and nuclear-capable bombers, entered its air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in the largest ‘incursion’ to date. In a statement released on the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense website,…
A Soviet MIG-21 fighter jet of the Libyan Air Force crashed during a military parade in the Libyan city of Benghazi on 29th May. The fighter jet crashed shortly after takeoff so as to take part in the military parade. This parade marked the seventh anniversary of Operation Dignity, during which Benghazi was liberated from…
The Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport has tweeted that the pilot, who managed to eject from the plane, is unhurt. A Swiss Air Force jet crashed in the central canton of Obwalden on Wednesday, according to the country’s Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport. The department tweeted on Wednesday…
A pilot was killed when the Air Force jet he was flying crashed in a residential neighborhood north of Las Vegas Monday, according to Clark County fire officials. A contracted-aircraft (Mirage F1) that took off from Nellis Air Force Base crashed at approximately 2:30 p.m. May 24 outside the southern edge of the base. The…
Israeli troops downed a drone approaching northern Israel from Jordan on Tuesday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said. The IDF shot down a drone that was approaching the Israeli-Jordanian border on Tuesday, traveling toward the Emek HaMa’ayanot Regional Council in northern Israel, military officials said. IDF units collected the fragments of the destroyed aircraft for…
Two pilots ejected from their F-15 Tuesday morning on the runway at MidAmerica St Louis airport in Mascoutah, Illinois. It is not clear if their ejection seats malfunctioned or if the pilots punched out. The plane was on the ground when the pilots ejected, it came to rest off the runway on the grass. One…
Two US Navy T-45 Goshawk jet trainers collided in mid-air over Texas. Two T-45 Goshawk training aircraft from Training Squadron 22 collided in mid-air in Ricardo, Texas, at approximately 11:00 CST today. One aircraft was able to safely land at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, and the other aircraft’s instructor and student pilot safely ejected…
Russian Su-27 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept tactical aircraft of the French Air Force over the Black Sea, Russia’s National Defense Control Center (at the Russian Defense Ministry) told reporters on Monday. Russian radars detected air targets approaching the national sovereign airspace. Su-27 fighter jets of the Southern Military District’s air defense units on…
Hooded and tied to a target, a young pilot suffered for long minutes the shots of a Mirage fighter jet made near him. Traumatized by this episode which occurred two years ago in Corsica, the student pilot ended up filing a complaint against the authors of the hazing who filmed everything. Two years, on the…