Germany has officially confirmed to the United States that it would acquire 45 F / A-18 Super Hornets from Boeing to replace part of the Panavia Tornado fleet. Germany will order 45 fighter aircraft from Boeing to replace the Luftwaffe’s aging Tornado jets, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Sunday. Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer emailed her…
A missile was fired from a Chadian fighter jet as it was preparing for takeoff. The incident happened at the Adji Kossei airbase, bordering N’Djamena International Airport (NDJ), in the capital city of Chad, on April 17, 2020. The aircraft involved is a Su-25 of the Chadian Air Force. After going through a fuel truck…
Some 20 French sailors remain hospital following an outbreak of Covid-19 in the naval group of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. 1081 marines have tested positive for the coronavirus, most from the carrier itself. “There are about 20 at the moment in hospital. Out of the 20, one is in the re-animation ward and…
A MiG-31 interceptor-fighter of Kazakhstan’s Air Force crashed near the Karaganda airport, with the crew ejecting to safety, the republican Defense Ministry reported on Thursday. The military plane crashed “in the course of performing a planned combat duty training flight,” the ministry said. The incident occurred south of the Karaganda aerodrome. “After the take-off, a…
A helicopter (probably a Cougar) from the 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment (RHC) of Pau crashed this Wednesday afternoon around 4.30 pm, north of Tarbes in the Hautes-Pyrénées. The Prefecture confirms an initial assessment of two dead and four injured in this accident. Two people are in absolute emergency and two people are in relative…
An overstressed back-seat passenger inadvertently ejected from a two-seat fighter jet Rafale, a new French military report says. The back-seat passenger on the March 2019 flight from Saint Dizier, France was a 64-year-old contractor according to the report published April 6 by the French military’s air accident investigation office. His colleagues, who included a former…
The Navy’s top admiral says the crew aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt are “struggling” almost 500 of them are infected with the coronavirus more than a week after their beloved captain was controversially fired. Vice Admiral Bill Merz visited the ship in Guam Tuesday after the sacking of Captain Brett Crozier, whose memo to…
Brett Crozier, the captain of a U.S. aircraft carrier relieved of his command, was given a hero’s ovation by his crew when he left the vessel. Here is brief clip showed Captain Brett Crozier walking down the gangplank of the Theodore Roosevelt as crew members repeatedly chanted “Captain Crozier, Captain Crozier!” The removal of Crozier,…
Another Quick Reaction Alert within few days. Two RAF Voyagers were scrambled this morning from RAF BrizeNorton as Russian aircraft triggered the NATO defense system once again. Please reload for updates… A RAF voyager headed to North of Aberdeen Another RAF voyager is now between UK and Danemark, followed by at least one Typhoon. Two…
U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors and Royal Canadian Air Force F-18s, supported by KC-135 Stratotanker and E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft, intercepted two Russian Tu-142 near Alaska. The Tu-142s sometimes fly near international borders to collect data about a country’s air defense network and to collect mapping and signals intelligence. The United States also conducts similar…
A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fighter jet crashed in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday morning, a PAF spokesperson said. The F-16 aircraft crashed during a rehearsal for the Pakistan Day parade, held annually on March 23. The jet fell down in Shakarparian, a wooded hilly area on the outskirts of the capital. The spokesperson did…
A pair of F-35 fighter jets from Ørland air base followed two Tu-142s and one MiG-31 over the Norwegian and North Sea Saturday. Russian maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft on Saturday came from the north and were first noticed by the air control station in Sørreisa, northern Norway, the Joint Head Quarters informs. Two…
