A US F/A-18 fighter jet suffering an engine problem crash landed Saturday at Bahrain International Airport and its pilot ejected from the aircraft after it ran off the runway, authorities said. The pilot escaped unharmed. The crash disrupted flights to and from the island nation off the coast of Saudi Arabia that’s home to the US Navy’s…
As tensions mounted between the United States and North Korea, two B-1B Bombers from Ellsworth Air Force Base participated in a flight off the Korean Peninsula. The bombers are among six B-1B Lancers and 350 airmen from Ellsworth AFB that were deployed to Guam in July as part of the rotation for the U.S. Pacific…
An Iranian drone came within 100 feet of a US Navy F/A-18 attempting to land on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, according to two US defense officials with knowledge of the incident. The officials said the drone forced the US aircraft to take evasive action. The drone came within…
In north Mali, a German military helicopter crashed. The Eurocopter EC665 Tiger was deployed in the country under the UN peace mission a spokesman said. Both pilots were killed during the crash, which occurred in Gao region.
China is defending last weekend’s encounter between two of its fighter jets and a U.S. military surveillance plane over the East China Sea. U.S. military officials say one of two Chinese J-10 fighters flew under a U.S. Navy EP-3 plane at a high rate of speed Sunday, then slowed down and pulled up directly in…
