Turkey’s most advanced and sophisticated drone has conducted an unprecedented flight that saw it departing from northwestern Turkey and landing in Azerbaijan. Two Akıncı drones took off from northwestern Tekirdağ’s Çorlu district on Saturday, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon hours, and traveled through Turkey and Georgia before they landed at…
Two Rafale planes collided mid-air during an airshow at the 709 base in Cognac-Châteaubernard this Sunday, May 22. The incident happened at 12:40 p.m., this Sunday, May 22, in the middle of the national airshow on the air base 709 Cognac-Châteaubernard military base Two Rafale fighter jets collided mid-air during their tactical presentation but fortunately,…
Russia is taping basic GPS devices to its fighter jets’ dashboards, the UK’s defense minister said. Wrecked Russian fighter jets are being found with rudimentary GPS receivers “taped to the dashboards” in Ukraine because their inbuilt navigation systems are so bad, the UK’s defense secretary, Ben Wallace, said. Speaking at the National Army Museum in…
In response to Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine, NATO has up to 30 aircraft on patrol at any moment. To deter any potential aggression against Allies, NATO is deploying an unprecedented mix of fighter jets, reconnaissance aircraft and support planes.
A hose and bucket have been found on side of a road in Poland. The current NATO mission over East Europe is involving many different kinds of aircraft. One of them are tankers like the Airbus A330 MRTT or the Boeing KC-135. They refuel fighter jets or Awacs during the surveillance mission almost 24/7 since…
Footage of the skies over Moscow shows the Ilyushin Il-80 passing low over the city’s outskirts. Russian officials have stated that the plane would perform a low flypast during Monday’s annual Victory Day parade in Red Square and that it is now undergoing “rehearsals” for the performance. The huge Soviet-era aircraft, known as the “Flying…
A Russian army helicopter violated Finland’s airspace on Wednesday. “The aircraft type is a Mi-17 helicopter and the depth of the suspected violation is about four to five kilometers,” a ministry spokesman told AFP. The incident occurred on Wednesday at 10:40 a.m. (0740 GMT). Experts have warned that Finland and Sweden would likely be subjected…
Two French fighter jets intercepted Russian aircraft yesterday. Yesterday, two French fighter jets intercepted a Russian Il-20M escorted by two Russian Navy Su-27s flying around Baltic airspace. The Mirage 2000s jets took off from Estonia. The Ilyushin Il-18 (NATO reporting name: Coot) is a large turboprop airliner that first flew in 1957 and became one…
Seven Navy sailors assigned to the USS George Washington have died by suicide during the time the aircraft carrier has been undergoing a yearslong overhaul in Newport News, Virginia. The Navy acknowledged Thursday that in addition to the four suicides in the past year, three more sailors assigned to the carrier died by suicide in…
A Russian reconnaissance plane briefly violated Sweden’s airspace yesterday, Swedish defence officials said today. The Swedish Air Force scrambled fighter jets which photographed the Russian plane. “A Russian AN-30 propeller plane violated Swedish airspace on Friday evening,” the Swedish defence ministry said in a statement, adding that its teams had followed the incident and photographed…
Ukrainian forces have used specific coordinates shared by the U.S. to direct fire on Russian positions and aircraft, current and former officials told NBC News. As Russia launched its invasion, the U.S. gave Ukrainian forces detailed intelligence about exactly when and where Russian missiles and bombs were intended to strike, prompting Ukraine to move air…
A footage emerged showing an Ukrainian MiG-29 taking off from Mykolaiv seconds before the runway was shelled by the Russians. Back in March, an Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 pilot from 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade in Kulbakino took off from Mykolaiv Air Base while the Russian Army was shelling the air base. Few seconds after takeoff,…