Russia prevents US drone from invading Black Sea airspace. Their airspace surveillance equipment detected an incoming air target. There have been encounters involving Russian and Western aircraft. A recent report from Russian media has detailed the interception of a US RQ-4B Global Hawk surveillance drone by a Russian Su-27 fighter jet. The incident occurred as … Read more
US Air Force F-35A stealth fighters arrive in South Korea. Military exercises have been reduced in recent years due to diplomatic engagement with N. Korea. North Korea appears to be planning its first nuclear test since 2017. US Air Force F-35A stealth fighters arrived in South Korea on Tuesday for the first publicly disclosed visit … Read more
Canadian military airplanes working in Asia have been more than once “hummed” by Chinese planes at perilously close distances. Canada calls the Chinese way of behaving amateurish and possibly unsafe. China has not remarked on the episodes, which Canada says are being tended to carefully. Canadian military airplanes working in Asia have been more than … Read more
On Saturday, a US Air Force general officer was found guilty of abusive sexual contact at a military court in Ohio, the Air Force said in a statement. This is the first court-martial trial and conviction of a general officer in the military branch’s history. According to an Air Force announcement, Maj. Gen. William T. … Read more
On Friday morning, a US Air Force jet on a “special air mission” was observed above the coast of England (April 15). After taking off from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, USA, and landing at Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands, the Boeing C-40B was seen flying eastwards above Tendring at a height of … Read more
WASHINGTON – A US federal judge on Monday ordered the Air Force to pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and relatives of victims of a 2017 Texas shooting for failing to report the perpetrator’s criminal record. Twenty-six people were killed and 22 more wounded when Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire at the … Read more
Russian warplanes intercepted by United States Air Force near Alaska, said US commanders. According to details, four Russian reconnaissance aircraft near Alaska intercepted near Alaska. The Russian Tu-142’s came within 65 nautical miles south of Alaska’s Aleutian island chain and “loitered” in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) for eight hours. But they stayed … Read more
