Emergency crews were on scene at Ohio’s Dayton International Airport on Friday afternoon after reports that a military jet ran off the runway and flipped over during a practice for an air show. UPDATE The plane sustained damage and the pilot and his passenger, a tactical aircraft maintainer, were taken to a local hospital where…
Striking photos released Friday show just how dangerously close a Russian fighter jet came to a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft in a Monday interaction deemed “provocative” by a U.S. official. The images show the Russian SU-27 coming within five feet of the wing of the U.S. RC-135U so close the Russian pilot can be…
Officials say an F-16 fighter jet caught fire while attempting to take off at Ellington Airport in Houston and the pilot ejected. The Houston Fire Department said in a statement that crews were dispatched to assist with a “downed plane” late Wednesday morning. The statement says the F-16 was on fire on the ground after…
Dozens of F-35 stealth fighters that were grounded for 11 days due to an oxygen-supply problem aboard the expensive warplanes will resume flying on Wednesday, the US Navy said. Investigators were unable to identify a root cause of the issue, which had prompted the 56th Fighter Wing of Luke Air Force Base, Arizona to ground its…
Moscow said a US spy plane flying toward the Russian border made a “provocative turn” toward a fighter jet, which had been scrambled for an interception mission. Earlier, the US military claimed the Russian jet had approached the US plane in an unsafe way. The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that a Baltic Fleet Su-27…
A U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle shot down an armed Iranian-built Shaheed-129 UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) advancing on coalition forces in Syria. “The armed pro-regime Shaheed-129 UAV was shot down by a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle at approximately 12:30 a.m. after it displayed hostile intent and advanced on coalition forces,” Operation Inherent Resolve said in a statement. This…
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) performs high-speed turns in the Atlantic Ocean. Abraham Lincoln is underway after successfully completing its mid-life refueling and complex overhaul and will spend several days conducting sea trials.
A US warplane has shot down a Syrian warplane over Syria’s northern city of Raqqa on Sunday, the Syrian army said in a statement. UPDATE Monday Russian MoD: “all coalition aircraft & UAVs detected to the West of the Euphrates River will be tracked by the Russian SAM as targets.” UPDATE Sunday 2046 UTC The U.S. military…
Nap-of-the-earth (NOE) is a type of very low-altitude course used by military aircraft to avoid enemy detection and attack in a high-threat environment. The only thing that has been edited in the videos is the original audio, the speed hasn´t been edited.
During the last days an increased level of military aircraft flight activities has been observed over the international waters of the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea in the vicinity of the Finnish airspace. As a territorial surveillance authority of Finland, the Finnish Air Force has ordered its F/A-18 Hornet multi-role fighters on Quick-Reaction…
