Military

ALERT Chile has lost contact with a C-130 military plane heading to Antarctica with 38 on board

A Chilean air force C-130 Hercules that was bound for Antarctica and carrying 38 on board lost radio contact with the country’s control center Monday evening, a statement from the military said. UPDATE Search for Chilean plane finds debris in ocean, Air Force says. The military had declared an alert and activated a search and…

Israeli fighter jets scrambled three times following suspicious activity in Gaza

Israeli fighter jets were sent to fly over the Gaza Strip on Saturday after suspicious activity was detected in the Palestinian enclave. The aircraft were dispatched three times, according to the Kan public broadcaster, but nothing out of the ordinary was found. The incidents came a day after weekly border protests resumed after a three-week…

ALERT A loud sonic boom caused by RAF planes has woken people across north London

  People tweeted that a loud “explosion” had woken them up at around 04:20 GMT – with houses shaking and reports of police sirens straight after. It is believed that loud noise was two RAF Typhoons launched from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to an unresponsive aircraft. It was reported by people across north London, Hertfordshire…

BREAKING 13 French soldiers killed in helicopters collision during operation in Mali

Thirteen French soldiers have been killed in Mali helicopter accident during anti-terror operation, says French presidency. The accident took place Monday night during operation in Mali when two helicopter collided midair. UPDATE Helicopter involved: Tigre and Cougar. These soldiers of Operation Barkhane belonged to the Army. There were six officers, six NCOs, and one corporal.

Gear door of B-52 fell in a garden after it took off from RAF Fairford

Part of an American bomber plane fell off and landed in a garden after it took off from a British RAF base. The B-52 bomber was on a routine training mission from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on Wednesday when the wing-tip gear door fell from the plane over Warwickshire. Military personnel retrieved the part and…

South Korea scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday to warn Russian warplanes it said had entered its air space identification zone

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said six Russian military aircraft had repeatedly entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) over a six-hour period. An ADIZ, unlike a nation’s airspace, is where countries may demand that foreign aircraft take special steps to identify themselves. Russia’s defense ministry denied its bombers, which were accompanied by…

U.S. B-2 Bomber from Nellis AFB recently tested a new nuclear bomb

The Air Force’s B-2 Stealth bomber has test-dropped an upgraded, multi-function B61-12 nuclear bomb which improves accuracy, integrates various attack options into a single bomb and changes the strategic landscape with regard to nuclear weapons mission possibilities. Earlier this summer, the Air Force dropped a B61-12 nuclear weapon from a B-2 at Nellis AFB, marking…

First British F-35 jets land on HMS Queen Elizabeth

British F-35 Lightning jets are now on-board HMS Queen Elizabeth. Flown by Royal Navy and Royal Air Force pilots, the Lightning jets are embarking on the carrier to conduct operational trials off the East Coast of the USA, say the Royal Navy. This follows developmental trials last year with US Lightning jets, where forces conducted…

BREAKING French journalists killed by Turkish airstrike amid Kurdish convoy

At least 11 people were killed and 74 injured in a Turkish airstrike on a convoy in northern Syria, Kurdish media reported Sunday. France 24 broadcaster said at least one of their journalists was also among the dead, while two French reporters were reportedly injured in the attack. “Our team is fine but some colleagues…