The US has carried out a missile strike against a Syrian air base in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town. Fifty-nine Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from two US Navy ships in the Mediterranean. President Donald Trump said they hit the Shayrat base that launched Tuesday’s attack. It is the…
A fighter jet of D.C. Air National Guard’s 113th Fighter Wing has crashed two miles south of Joint Base Andrews, near Washington DC, according to reports. NBC News reported that two people had ejected from the plane and been located by emergency services. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 1416 UTC F-16 pilot from DC…
To commemorate the United States’entry into World War I, the Patrouille de France has been invited to tour America from March to May 2017 to perform in a number of air shows and flybys. It has been 31 years since the Patrouille de France last toured North America. It will now be there to pay…
North Korea fired four banned ballistic missiles on Monday that flew about 620 miles, with three of them landing in waters that Japan claims as its exclusive economic zone, South Korean and Japanese officials said. The test-launches appeared to be a reaction to huge U.S.-South Korean military drills that those countries consider routine but that Pyongyang…
Turkish officials said that an aircraft believed to belong to the Syrian military crashed near the Turkey-Syria border Saturday, with the Syrian opposition claiming to Turkish media they were responsible for shooting the plane down. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters that “we have information that a MIG model plane belonging to the Syrian regime”…
NATO aircraft had four close encounters with Russian planes in separate incidents on Feb. 10, the Air Force’s top general in charge of its forces in Europe said Thursday. Gen. Tod Wolters, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and U.S. Air Forces Africa, said three of those encounters were with Russian Su-24 attack aircraft…
