A Russian fighter flew dangerously close to a US warplane over eastern Syria, US defence officials said Friday, highlighting the risks of a serious mishap in the increasingly crowded airspace. The near miss occurred late on October 17, when a Russian jet that was escorting a larger spy plane manoeuvred in the vicinity of an…
Typhoon jets were scrambled to escort an Aurbui A320 to a Scotland airport after it lost communication. Four Typhoon jets were scrambled after ATC lost contact with a plane near Glasgow’s Prestwick Airport. A sonic boom was heard in the Highlands as the aircraft broke the sound barrier after being dispatched from the RAF Lossiemouth base. The…
Finland’s defence ministry said a Russian fighter jet violated Finnish airspace early last Thursday, after scrambled jets identified the SU-27 fighter over the Baltic Sea. “The suspected violation… continued approximately one minute, and was in Finnish airspace for about 13 kilometers at a maximum of about one kilometer depth,” the ministry said in a statement.
The Red Arrows have embarked on the team’s biggest overseas tour in a decade. 2016 Tour Departure More than 20 displays and a series of flypasts will be performed across the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions by the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team. The major tour, which will take two months to complete, will see…
The United States 5th Bomb Wing B-52s and their crews recently performed a mass takeoff during Prairie Vigilance exercise at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. Prairie Vigilance is an annual exercise designed to test the wing’s ability to conduct conventional and nuclear-capable bomber operations.
Two U.S. supersonic bombers flew over South Korea on Wednesday, with one of them landing at an air base 40 km (25 miles) south of the capital, according to a Reuters witness, the second such flight since North Korea’s Sept. 9 nuclear test. The U.S. Forces Korea said in a statement the flight by a…
Yesterday (Sept. 22), two nuclear-capable bombers Tu-160 Blackjack of Russian Air Force were intercepted and escorted by RAF Typhoons in Quick Reaction Alert. Two RAF Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth were scrambled to intercept and escort the Blackjacks as they were heading north of Scotland. The interceptors were supported by a Voyager tanker. Earlier, two Norwegian F-16s intercepted…
