Four new RAF F-35 Lightning stealth fighter jets have landed in the UK. The jets, which cost £92m each, made the 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic from a US Marine Corps base in South Carolina. The supersonic planes will be based at RAF Marham in Norfolk, where they are expected to be in operation by…
The Taiwanese Air Force lost communication with an F-16 fighter during the annual Han Kuang military exercises on Monday, the CNA news agency reports citing military sources. One F-16 single-seat fighter went missing at 13:43 local time [05:43 GMT] while performing tasks set during the military exercises on Monday, a search and rescue operation has…
A military plane has had to make an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon in Milwaukee after what was “believed to be a lightning strike.” According to the 128th Air Refueling Wing of the Wisconsin Air National Guard, the in-flight emergency happened on the KC-135 plane Wednesday. It landed at Mitchell International Airport at about 2:45 p.m.,…
At around 07:40 LT, a Brazilian Air Force F-5F has crashed right after takeoff from Santa Cruz air base near Rio de Janeiro. The crew was able to ejected. Queda do Caça F5f na cidade de itaguaí, Na Rio Santos. pic.twitter.com/X4bc0kQoyV — Eduardo BOLSONARO Silva (@SilvaBolsonaro) May 24, 2018
Israel is the first country in the world to carry out an “operational attack” with the F-35 stealth fighter, Israel’s air force commander Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin said on Tuesday. “The F-35 squadron has become an operational squadron. We are flying the F-35 all over the Middle East – we might be the first to…
Two Russian long-range bombers were intercepted off the coast of Alaska by a pair of F-22 Raptor fighter jets on Friday, the military said. The Tu-95 bombers were flying in the Air Defense Identification Zone in the Bering Sea north of the Aleutian Islands, where they were visually identified and shadowed by the U.S. jets…
A Russian Su-30SM fighter crashed in Syria, with both pilots having perished in the incident, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday. On Thursday morning, a Russian Su-30SM went down in the Mediterranean Sea after taking off from Khmeimim Airbase. Pilots “fought to take the aircraft under control till the last minute,” the Russian Defense ministry said. Both…
