Greece announced its intention to acquire 18 Rafales to equip its Air Force. In an annual state of the economy speech, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece would obtain 18 new French-made Rafale fighter planes to replace its aging Mirage 2000 fighters. However 12 aircraft would be second hand aircraft from the French Air Force.…
RAF fighter jets have intercepted two Russian aircraft off the coast of Scotland. The Eurofighter Typhoons were scrambled into action after the Tupolev Tu-142 planes “entered the UK’s controlled zone of international airspace”, the Ministry of Defence said. An MoD spokesman said that monitoring the zone ensures the safe passage for all other aircraft, including…
Russian fighter jet Su-27 was scrambled to intercept US and Swedish reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry’s National Defense Control Center (NDCC) said. “On September 8, Russian air control systems detected two air targets approaching the Russian state border over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. To identify air targets and…
A US Marine Corps military helicopter from New River Marine Corps Air Station caught fire shortly after making an emergency landing on 3rd September in Onslow County. Officials from Marine Corps Air Station New River confirmed that one of their CH-53E helicopters was forced to make an emergency landing at approximately 2 p.m. Four crew…
A Chinese Air force Su-35 has crashed. Reports claimed it has been shot by Taiwan air defence system. The CCP’s People’s Liberation Army Sukai 35 fighter plane crashed in Guangxi. Reports claimed that the fighter jet was flying over the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. A video shows multiple flames and dark smoke…
A Royal Netherlands Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35A made an emergency landing. The military aircraft squawked 7700 during a test flight and was forced to land in Turin.
Two pilots and two crewmembers safely bailed out of a Navy E-2C Hawkeye aircraft before it crashed north of Norfolk, Virginia, during a Monday training flight. The Hawkeye, a twin turboprop airborne early warning and command-and-control aircraft, crashed near Wallops Island at about 4:05 p.m., Navy officials announced Monday afternoon. There are no reports of…
NATO says that a Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jet committed a “significant violation” of Danish airspace while intercepting a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress in the Baltic Sea region last week. The incident occurred as six of these heavy bombers, including four from a detachment presently forward-deployed in the United Kingdom, were conducting overflights of…
Two Typhoons took off to escort a Ryanair flight to London Stansted. Two RAF Typhoons have been scrambled from RAF Coningsby on a QRA. A RAF KC3 has also been launched from Brize Norton. Ryanair flight #FR7364 from Vienna to London Stansted triggered due to suspicious objects discovered in a lavatory. The Lauda A320 (reg.…
A Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 fighter jet hit a road sign on a highway in the country’s capital of Kyiv during highway operation on Thursday. Two Ukraine Sukhoi Su-27 heavy fighter jets were dispatched to the region for military exercises on Ukraine’s Highway M06. The fighter was being used to practice take-off and landing on…
The Pentagon has released a troubling video of a ‘unsafe interception’ between one of its aircraft and Russian fighters. At approximately 11:19 a.m. on Aug. 28, 2020, two Russian Su-27 Flanker pilots intercepted a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber that was conducting routine operations in the black sea over international waters. The Pentagon said the…
The plane made the emergency stop after a suspected bird strike during the fly past over the capital. The ‘Arrow 6’ jet is understood to have been damaged in the incident. It was accompanied to Edinburgh Airport by support plane ‘Arrow 9’ and landed safely.
