A fighter jet Mirage 2000D vanished from radars shortly before noon Wednesday. The radar plot disappeared from the screens as it flew over the Jura mountains in the late morning. UPDATE 6 French Air Force confirms death of pilot and weapon systems officer after crash of a Mirage 2000D yesterday. UPDATE 5 Following the crash of…
An Israel Air Force F-15 reportedly lost its canopy in a freak accident during a training flight at 30,000 feet. The pilots, suddenly exposed to the rarified atmosphere, managed to coax the plane back down for a gentle landing. The two pilots, a captain and a lieutenant, took off from the Tel Nof airbase near…
The modernisation is aimed at prolonging the service of the Tu-22M3 modification, while at the same time upgrading its capabilities. The planes will be able to carry cutting edge Russian missile weaponry, including the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal (“Dagger”) ballistic missile, which can reach speeds of 10 Mach. Russian TV channel Zvezda has published a video of…
VIDEO: Lightning bolt strikes a #Kuwaiti Air Force F/A-18 Hornet! pic.twitter.com/oBldSa1Tcf — محمد بن خالد (@MbKS15) December 28, 2018 The F/A-18C being hit by a lightning bolt took the pilot by surprise.
The Hellenic National Defense General Staff (GEETHA) said two Turkish F-16 jets violated Greek airspace twice on Monday. According to the statement, Turkish jets flew over the Greek island of Oinousses at the height of 26,000 feet on Monday at 16:04 local time (14:04 GMT). F-16 jets violated Greek airspace while the Greek Minister of Defense,…
The British Royal Air Force’s (RAF) A400M Atlas aircraft has carried out beach landing trials on Pembrey Sands beach in southern Wales. The trials were conducted for the first time and involved 206 Squadron members and engineers front-line squadron LXX based at RAF Brize Norton. During the trials, the Airbus-built turboprop military transport aircraft performed…
Fighter jets scrambled from a Scottish RAF station due to unidentified aircraft approaching UK airspace. Typhoon jets from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray were called out on Monday morning. UPDATE The ‘unidentified aircraft’ were two Tu-160 and one Il-62 to Venezuela. The RAF said the fighters were scrambled as a “precautionary measure”, but no intercept took place…
The incident involved an F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet made by McDonnell Douglass, and a KC-130, a refuelling plane with propellers made by Lockheed Martin. UPDATE One US Marine has been found alive. “Search and rescue operations continue for US Marine aircraft that were involved in a mishap off of the coast of Japan around 2.00 am Dec 6,” a Marine Corps news…
On Nov. 30, 2018, during the media day of TLP 18-4 currently underway at Amendola, in southeastern Italy, Italian Air Force declared Initial Operating Capability with the F-35A Lightning II. ItAF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Alberto Rosso said: “Today is an important day for the Italian Air force. With the Initial Operational Capability we are…
