fighter jets
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The American-made F-16 is an iconic fighter jet that’s been the front-line combat plane of choice for the NATO alliance and numerous air forces around the world for 50 years. Western countries have pledged F-16s to Kyiv, and some have arrived in Ukraine, officials in Washington and Ukraine confirmed to The Associated Press. The fighter jets…
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Even as Russia’s air force struggles to make a difference in Ukraine, the service and the country’s aviation industry are discussing a next-generation fighter that will be deployed by 2050. Not coincidentally, the discussion comes as the US Air Force hints that it may drop its plan for a sixth-generation fighter, a piloted air superiority fighter that…
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Western F-16 fighter jets are on schedule to hit the skies over Ukraine by the middle of summer, according to its foreign affairs minister. Dmytro Kuleba said pilot training was “going well” and “everything was going to plan”, Interfax-Ukraine reported. “But, of course, this is a very complicated and confusing issue, so you never know…
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The number of Russian fighter jets destroyed by Ukraine this week now sits at five after another three were reportedly downed today. Ukraine’s air force said an Su-34 fighter-bomber was destroyed in the early hours of this morning, with a further two shot down hours later. On Tuesday, it claimed to have downed two of…
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Ukraine will not be able to operate multiple types of Western warplanes due to immense logistical issues and will need to focus on US-made F-16 fighter jets, a spokesman for the Air Force has admitted. Speaking on national TV on Monday, Yury Ignat was asked whether Kiev could potentially start flying French fighters after signing…
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Moscow has scrambled a MiG-31 fighter jet to intercept a US Navy P-8A Poseidon patrol plane approaching its airspace over the Barents Sea, the Russian defence ministry has said. “Russian airspace control equipment over the Barents Sea detected an air target approaching the State border of the Russian Federation,” it wrote on Telegram. “To identify an…
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Britain on Monday said its fighter jets intercepted two Russian long-range bombers flying over north of Scotland. The British Typhoon jets were launched from RAF Lossiemouth, one of Britain’s Royal Air Force’s two Quick Reaction Alert stations, to intercept two Russian Tu-142 long-range bombers flying over north of Scotland, the Ministry of Defense said in…
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Two Chinese fighter jets have intercepted an American military plane over the East China Sea, the US Air Force reported as breaking news. According to a report from IBT, the U.S. military declined to describe this dangerous encounter with their Chinese counterparts as “unsafe.” Nonetheless, the aircraft crew reportedly called the action “unprofessional.” The US aircraft,…
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The Russia government is once again creating deadlocks with plans to sell advanced fighter jets to Iran and the U.S. is ready to step in and stop the military trade relations.
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US intelligence services spotted Chinese Shenyang J-11 and Xian JH-7 warplanes on Woody Island in disputed Paracel Islands chain in the past few days, US media reports. “China has deployed fighter jets to the same contested island in the South China Sea to which it also has sent surface-to-air missiles.” Navy Captain Darryn James, a spokesman…
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