The pilot of a military stealth fighter jet has parachuted to safety after colliding with an air tanker during a mid-air refueling operation near Imperial County, southern California. An F-35B combat jet crashed near the Salton Sea on Tuesday afternoon after hitting a KC-130J tanker, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing in a…
Incredible scenes at RAF Mildenhall with a tanker fleet ‘Elephant Walk’. Watch the mass launch of probably 11 tankers in support of Wolfpack exercise. The tankers are currently over the North Sea. Mike Stockbridge said: “Never seen this before and a very, very, rare event. Probably the entire Tanker Fleet at Mildenhall doing an ‘Elephant…
A U.S. Navy fighter jet suffered an in-flight engine fire earlier this month, prompting an emergency landing, officials confirmed Tuesday. The F/A-18F Super Hornet, assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 103 out of Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, was conducting routine training near the Virginia Capes at the time of the Sept. 10 mishap, Naval Air…
A Libyan National Army Mil Mi helicopter carrying four mercenaries from the Russian Wagner group was crashed in central Libya, the Libyan army said on Wednesday. The military helicopter crashed under unknown circumstances and exploded. Libyan National Army spokesperson told Anadolu Agency: “A helicopter carrying Russian mercenaries and ammunition fell in the town of Sukna,…
A joint mission of France, Germany, and Romania will carry out an observation flight over Russia this week under the Treaty on Open Skies, the head of Russia’s National Nuclear Risk Reduction Centre, Sergei Ryzhkov, said. The observation flight will be carried out using the Romanian An-30 aircraft. Russian specialists on board the plane will…
Taiwan scrambled fighter jets on Friday as 18 Chinese aircraft buzzed the island, crossing the sensitive midline of the Taiwan Strait, in response to a senior U.S. official holding talks in Taipei. China had earlier announced combat drills and denounced what it called collusion between the island, which it claims as part of its territory,…
Greece announced its intention to acquire 18 Rafales to equip its Air Force. In an annual state of the economy speech, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece would obtain 18 new French-made Rafale fighter planes to replace its aging Mirage 2000 fighters. However 12 aircraft would be second hand aircraft from the French Air Force.…
RAF fighter jets have intercepted two Russian aircraft off the coast of Scotland. The Eurofighter Typhoons were scrambled into action after the Tupolev Tu-142 planes “entered the UK’s controlled zone of international airspace”, the Ministry of Defence said. An MoD spokesman said that monitoring the zone ensures the safe passage for all other aircraft, including…
Russian fighter jet Su-27 was scrambled to intercept US and Swedish reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry’s National Defense Control Center (NDCC) said. “On September 8, Russian air control systems detected two air targets approaching the Russian state border over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. To identify air targets and…
A US Marine Corps military helicopter from New River Marine Corps Air Station caught fire shortly after making an emergency landing on 3rd September in Onslow County. Officials from Marine Corps Air Station New River confirmed that one of their CH-53E helicopters was forced to make an emergency landing at approximately 2 p.m. Four crew…
A Chinese Air force Su-35 has crashed. Reports claimed it has been shot by Taiwan air defence system. The CCP’s People’s Liberation Army Sukai 35 fighter plane crashed in Guangxi. Reports claimed that the fighter jet was flying over the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. A video shows multiple flames and dark smoke…
A Royal Netherlands Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35A made an emergency landing. The military aircraft squawked 7700 during a test flight and was forced to land in Turin.
