The Netherlands’ Defense Safety Inspection Agency is investigating an incident during a January military exercise in which a Dutch Air Force F-16 was damaged by live fire from a its own 20-millimeter cannon. Two F-16s were conducting firing exercises on January 21. It appears that the damaged aircraft actually caught up with the 20mm rounds…
A Japanese Air Self Defense Force F-35 jet crashed in the Pacific. Search and rescue teams found wreckage from a crashed Japanese F-35 stealth fighter in the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan. The aircraft, less than a year old, was the first F-35 assembled in Japan and was aloft for only 28 minutes on…
A pair of Tu-160 strategic bombers made 13-hours flight over the Barents-, Norwegian- and North Seas. The bombers were escorted by MiG-31 fighter jet and the planes made aerial refueling, the Defense Ministry in Moscow informs. The flights happened on Wednesday and the Russian military planes were met by Danish and British fighter jets in…
A Quick Alert Response (QRA) was launched again today as Russian bombers Tu-160 flew over North Sea. A voyager tanker was scrambled from RAF Brize Norton. Two Typhoons were launched from RAF Lossiemouth. Two Danish Air Force F-16s were launched from Skrydstrup Air Base. A French tanker C-135FR and a E-3F Awacs are circling in…
A Quick Alert Response (QRA) from Royal Air Force was launched today as Russian bombers flew off Norwegian and UK coasts. This morning NATO radars detected Russian Aircraft flying off Norwegian coasts. A Royal Air Force tanker took from from Brize Norton base as well as an E3-F Awacs for airborne radar detection. Two RAF Typhoons…
Two planes left from a Russian military airport bound for Caracas on Friday, and another plane left Caracas on Sunday. Reporter Javier Mayorca wrote on Twitter on Saturday that the first plane carried Vasily Tonkoshkurov, chief of staff of the ground forces, adding the second was a cargo plane carrying 35 tonnes of material. An…
A 64-year old civilian passenger was accidentally ejected from a French Air Force Rafale B fighter jet as the aircraft was taking off from Saint-Dizier 113 air base on Mar. 20, 2019. The backseater, whose identity was not disclosed, is said to be a man. He suffered serious back injuries and was hospitalized according to…
On Thursday 28th of February, the Royal Air Force performed a flypast using 9 Tornado GR4s over RAF Marham. This marks the end of frontline operations for the aircraft which has seen service in the Royal Air Force since 1979.
Pakistan’s army has announced that its Air Force had downed two Indian warplanes in the Pakistani airspace, adding that one Indian pilot had been captured. An army spokesman said one plane had fallen inside Pakistani territory and a pilot had been arrested. There is no confirmation from India, which claimed to have shot down a Pakistani…
US reconnaissance aircraft have made an increased number of flights in international airspace off the coast of Venezuela in a bid to obtain classified information, the unnamed defence sources told CNN on Tuesday. The sources did not detail which US spy planes were being used for the mission, but unconfirmed social media reports identified one…
Two planes of the aerobatic team of the Indian Air Force crashed in preparation for the AeroIndia 2019 air show. Two Indian Air Force planes collided in mid-air in the southern state of Karnataka on Tuesday while rehearsing an aerobatic show, killing one pilot and injuring two others. The aerobatic team was scheduled to perform…
Capt. Zoe Kotnik, the first female pilot to head the F-16 Viper demonstration team, was relieved of command. “Col. Derek O’Malley, 20th Fighter Wing commander, relieved Capt. Zoe Kotnik from command Feb. 11 due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead and command the Air Combat Command F-16 Viper demonstration team,” said…
