File photo of a Royal Air Force Typhoon pilot preparing to start the jet for a training mission. (Photo: Royal Air Force) Western pilots approached with remunerative contracts to provide training to Chinese pilots. After reports about British pilots being targeted by China trying to recruit them to train the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, …
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Ex-USS Boone Sunk Using SM-6 Missile, Paveway IV as well as Quicksink Bombs During US-UK Drills
The deactivated USS Boone sinks after being struck numerous times(Screenshot from video clip listed below ). In package: An AGM-84D Harpoon projectile is released off the wing of the P-8A by VP-9 throughout Atlantic Thunder 2022( Photo: USN Lt. Joseph Reed). The sinking of the deactivated USS Boone saw at work, for the very first …
Red Arrows In Trouble As Team Faces A Pilot Shortage
File image of the Red Arrows in trip.(Photo: Royal Air Force)RAF is exploring cases of poisonous society and also transgression amongst the staff member. The Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force’s aerobatic group, shed 2 pilots this year, with one being sacked after a claimed event and also one more having actually surrendered over the …
Draken Will Provide Red Air Services To The Royal Air Force
Draken L-159s in formation in the United States. (Photo: Draken) Draken’s L-159Es will take over the aggressor role of the recently retired Hawk T1 fleet. The Royal Air Force awarded a six-year contract to Draken to provide aggressor aircraft to support the training of Typhoon and F-35B pilots, replicating the tactics, techniques and procedures of …
Chile Might Purchase Three Former RAF E-3D Sentry AEW Mk.1 Aircraft
The E-3D Sentry AEW Mk.1 of the Royal Air Force. (Photo: RAF) The aircraft, retired from service last year, should replace the Boeing 707 Cóndor. The Chilean Air Force (FACh) might get in the near future three of the E-3D Sentry AEW Mk.1 recently retired by the Royal Air Force. An unspecified source, reported by …
Photo Of The Recovered Wreckage Of The British F-35B Leaked Online
The wreck of the F-35B as seen in the leaked photo. (Photo: anonymous source) The aircraft has been recovered last month and it looks like it is still pretty much intact. An image, taken by an unknown photographer, showing the wreckage of the British F-35B that ditched in the Mediterranean Sea and was recovered by …
No, Germany Did Not Deny RAF C-17s Bound For Ukraine Access to Its Airspace
File photo of Royal Air Force 99 Squadron C17 aircraft taking off from RAF Brize Norton. (Image credit: RAF/Crown Copyright). In the boxes: the C-17s route on Jan. 17, 2022 (ADSBExchange via George Allison) The decision to avoid the German airspace was made deliberately by the Royal Air Force C-17s and the British were not …
Insane Video Of RAF Buccaneers Flying Ultra Low Level During Mock Attack On HMS Liverpool Off Gibraltar
Screenshot from the video showing 12 Sqn Buccaneers attacking HMS Liverpool in the Med Sea. This footage proves how low the RAF Buccaneers could fly during a maritime strike mission… Blackburn Aircraft Company NA.39 was a carrier-borne, high-speed low-level strike aircraft which, in its production form, became famous as the “Buccaneer”. The first prototype, XK486, …
RAF Typhoon’s First Air-To-Air Kill: Terrorist Drone Shot Down In Syria
A Typhoon FGR4 (Image credit: UK MOD/Crown Copyright) A Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 has shot down a “small hostile drone” in Syria. In what the UK Ministry of Defence called an “unprecedented event”, an RAF Typhoon conducted the type’s first ever operational air-to-air engagement in Syria on Dec. 14, 2021. The event marked also …
Wreckage Of The British F-35B Ditched In the Mediterranean Sea Has Been Recovered
A Royal Air Force F-35B prepares to depart from the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier during the CSG21 cruise. (Photo: Royal Navy). In the box: a screenshot of the video showing the crash that was leaked online. The remains of the aircraft are now being transported to an allied port so it can then be …