Two pilots are injured and three homes are damaged after a US Navy T-45 jet crashed in a Lake Worth neighborhood Sunday morning, officials say. Lake Worth officials received a call at 10:53 a.m. about the downed plane in the 4000 blocks of Tejas and Dakota trails. Both pilots had ejected and one was found…
The US has admitted that a drone strike in Kabul days before its military pullout killed 10 innocent people. A US Central Command investigation found that an aid worker and nine members of his family, including seven children, died in the 29 August strike. The youngest child, Sumaya, was just two years old. The deadly…
A B-2 stealth bomber was damaged after making an emergency landing early Tuesday at Whiteman Air Force Base. The B-2 Spirit was damaged on a runway in the incident at approximately 12:30 a.m., Jennifer Greene, a spokeswoman for the Air Force Global Strike Command, told Kansas City television station KMBC. The bomber landed after an…
The U.S. Navy and Boeing have used the MQ-25TM T1 test asset to refuel a U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II fighter jet for the first time, once again demonstrating the aircraft’s ability to achieve its primary aerial refueling mission. This was the third refueling mission for the Boeing-owned test asset in just over three months,…
It was maybe not a good idea to plan a drill with the French Air Force over south of Paris on 9/11. This Saturday in the middle of the afternoon, a plane which looked like an airliner was observed at very low altitude escorted by a fighter plane. It actually was a French Air Force…
A picture has surfaced showing a new aircraft generally matching Aerospace DAILY’s understanding of the shape of what is commonly known as the RQ-180 unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The Philippines sits between the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea, two contentious and highly surveilled bodies of water that regularly see large amounts of military…
U.S. Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit were monitoring the air traffic control from the runway of Hamid Karzai International Airport. US troops were assisting in the evacuation of US citizens, Special Immigrant Visa applicants and other at-risk Afghan civilians from Afghanistan under Operation Allies Refuge.
U.S. airstrike targeted a suicide bomber in a vehicle who wanted to strike the Kabul airport. UPDATE U.S. Officials say a drone has stuck a vehicle in Kabul containing ‘multiple suicide bombers’ on its way to the city’s airport and the threat is believed to be eliminated. A child was killed in northwest of Kabul…
An airstrike was launched from beyond Afghanistan less than 48 hours after the devastating Kabul attack that killed 13 Americans. Biden authorized the drone strike and it was ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to provide details not yet publicly announced. Central Command said the drone…
The Quick Reaction Alert Typhoons launched from RAF Lossiemouth and were joined by an RAF Voyager to provide air-to-air refuelling. The Quick Reaction Alert Typhoons were launched from RAF Lossiemouth, north Scotland, after the Russian planes were detected over the North Sea. They intercepted a pair of TU-142 “Bear-F” Maritime Reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft…
The United States Air Force is sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that analysts say sends a strong message to a possible adversary in China. Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii this week said approximately 25 F-22s…
A Black Hawk helicopter belonging to the US Army was forced to make an emergency landing in Romania during a training flight on Thursday. The military helicopter made an emergency landing on a Bucharest street, bringing down two lampposts in the process. The helicopter was one of the several helicopters training above Bucharest, Romania, in…