Sixteen people have been killed after a US military plane crashed in rural Mississippi. Emergency services were scouring a large field of debris on Monday night where the Marine Corps KC-130 refuelling tanker spiralled to the ground about 85 miles north of Jackson in Mississippi’s LeFlore County. Fred Randle, the county’s director of emergency management,…
US officials have said the intercontinental ballistic missile test-fired by North Korea was something they had “never seen before”. As the West scrambled to assess the threat posed by the missile, which may have the capability of hitting Alaska – and responding by sabre-rattling of its own – Pentagon officials said the two-stage device fired…
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson strongly condemned North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile launch, calling it “a new escalation of the threat to the United States, our allies and partners, the region, and the world” in a statement Tuesday. “Global action is required to stop a global threat,” he said. “Any country that hosts North…
The Russian chief of staff, General Valery Gerasimov, accompanied Assad, according to a statement by Russia’s Defense Ministry. The two discussed coordinating actions of the Syrian government forces with the help of the Russian military against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and the Al-Nusra Front in Syria. Syrian President Bashar Assad has tried out the…
Emergency crews were on scene at Ohio’s Dayton International Airport on Friday afternoon after reports that a military jet ran off the runway and flipped over during a practice for an air show. UPDATE The plane sustained damage and the pilot and his passenger, a tactical aircraft maintainer, were taken to a local hospital where…
Striking photos released Friday show just how dangerously close a Russian fighter jet came to a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft in a Monday interaction deemed “provocative” by a U.S. official. The images show the Russian SU-27 coming within five feet of the wing of the U.S. RC-135U so close the Russian pilot can be…
Officials say an F-16 fighter jet caught fire while attempting to take off at Ellington Airport in Houston and the pilot ejected. The Houston Fire Department said in a statement that crews were dispatched to assist with a “downed plane” late Wednesday morning. The statement says the F-16 was on fire on the ground after…
Dozens of F-35 stealth fighters that were grounded for 11 days due to an oxygen-supply problem aboard the expensive warplanes will resume flying on Wednesday, the US Navy said. Investigators were unable to identify a root cause of the issue, which had prompted the 56th Fighter Wing of Luke Air Force Base, Arizona to ground its…
Moscow said a US spy plane flying toward the Russian border made a “provocative turn” toward a fighter jet, which had been scrambled for an interception mission. Earlier, the US military claimed the Russian jet had approached the US plane in an unsafe way. The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that a Baltic Fleet Su-27…
A U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle shot down an armed Iranian-built Shaheed-129 UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) advancing on coalition forces in Syria. “The armed pro-regime Shaheed-129 UAV was shot down by a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle at approximately 12:30 a.m. after it displayed hostile intent and advanced on coalition forces,” Operation Inherent Resolve said in a statement. This…
