The United States Air Force is sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that analysts say sends a strong message to a possible adversary in China. Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii this week said approximately 25 F-22s…
A Black Hawk helicopter belonging to the US Army was forced to make an emergency landing in Romania during a training flight on Thursday. The military helicopter made an emergency landing on a Bucharest street, bringing down two lampposts in the process. The helicopter was one of the several helicopters training above Bucharest, Romania, in…
Biden administration to begin evacuating Afghans who aided US military in late July. The Biden administration will begin evacuation flights in late July for Afghans who have aided the U.S. military, according to a senior administration official. President Joe Biden earlier this month said all U.S. combat forces will be out of Afghanistan by Aug.…
A Philippine Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules transporting troops crashed and caught fire in the Sulu province after missing the runway while trying to land. UPDATE Death toll jumps to 45 in Philippine military plane crash: armed forces. The C-130H transport aircraft was transporting 84 soldiers from Cagayan de Oro-Lumbia Airport, in Mindanao, to Jolo…
A Belgian Air Force General Dynamics F-16AM crashed into a building at Leeuwarden Air Base after the fighter suffered some serious problems during startup. The pilot decided to eject, using the ejector sear after he lost control and the jet started to roll on the runway. The aircraft came to rest at a building. The Dutch…
The Netherlands on Tuesday accused Russian fighter jets of “aggressive” behaviour in an encounter with a Dutch warship in the Black Sea. The incident last Thursday involved the frigate HNMLS Evertsen, part of a carrier strike group with the British destroyer HMS Defender, which itself purportedly came under Russian warning fire a day earlier. The…
An Ethiopian Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft was shot down by Tigray People’s Liberation Front on June 23 near Gijet in the Tigray region, killing dozens of people on board. The C-130 Hercules transport aircraft (serial 1564, MSN 3822), belonging to Squadron 15 at Debre Zeit Air Base, was reportedly transporting explosives and ammunition in…
A Russian warship has fired warning shots after the HMS Defender, a British Royal Navy destroyer, violated Russia’s maritime borders in the Black Sea, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced Wednesday. Moscow urged the United States and its NATO allies to stop military operations in the Black Sea region, calling instead for “multilateral efforts” aimed…
Antonov Airlines safely transported five Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk utility-helicopters on a single AN-124-100 flight from Poland to the Philippines. The AN-124 completed the second consignment of the Polish-built helicopter under a government-to-government agreement from Rzeszów, Poland, to Angeles, the Philippines. Each of these utility helicopters weighed 5.6 tonnes, and the overall cargo weighted 35…
28 Chinese military planes entered Taiwan’s air defense zone in largest fly-over to date, Taipei says. Taiwan’s government has reported that 28 Chinese planes, including fighter jets and nuclear-capable bombers, entered its air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in the largest ‘incursion’ to date. In a statement released on the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense website,…
A Soviet MIG-21 fighter jet of the Libyan Air Force crashed during a military parade in the Libyan city of Benghazi on 29th May. The fighter jet crashed shortly after takeoff so as to take part in the military parade. This parade marked the seventh anniversary of Operation Dignity, during which Benghazi was liberated from…
The Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport has tweeted that the pilot, who managed to eject from the plane, is unhurt. A Swiss Air Force jet crashed in the central canton of Obwalden on Wednesday, according to the country’s Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport. The department tweeted on Wednesday…
