Russian forces have started leaving Syria after Monday’s surprise withdrawal announcement by President Vladimir Putin. Russian defence ministry video showed the first group of aircraft taking off from Hmeimim air base in Syria on Tuesday morning and later in flight. But Russia will continue air strikes, and keep several hundred personnel and air defence systems,…
American B-52 bombers are “ready and able” to strike ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria, a top Air Force official confirmed Monday. The air campaign against ISIS is “taking a toll on our aircraft, our readiness and our airmen” but the “venerable B-52 … remains ready and able to meet combatant commander requirements,” Secretary of…
Saudi fighter jets began arriving at Turkey’s Incirlik airbase on Friday, allegedly to take part in the country’s aerial missions against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS) in Syria. According to Turkish authorities, the warplanes will start their operations next Thursday.
The Tu-214R is a Russian ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) aircraft. In other words, a quite advanced spyplane. As we have already explained here in the past, it is a special mission aircraft equipped with all-weather radar systems and electro optical sensors that produce photo-like imagery of a large parts of the ground: these images are…
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence has said that RAF Typhoons have been scrambled to intercept two Russian bombers heading towards UK airspace. The typhoons were dispatched from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire following the security alert. Spokesperson: “situation on-going and this is not uncommon: BBC News says the UK’s airspace extends 12 miles from the UK coastline.…
#exclusif quelques secondes du rdv de la @PAFofficiel et du dernier #747 d’ @airfrance en vol. C’est cadeau 🙂 http://pic.twitter.com/w4L5v2bq4Z — Armée de l’air (@Armee_de_lair) 27 Janvier 2016
Aviation history is set to be made in the UK this summer when, in a major airshow ‘first’, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, the Joint Strike Fighter, makes its much-anticipated international display debut. Visitors to the Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford will be the first outside the US to see the stealthy, supersonic aircraft’s…
