An F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet, attached to the “Rampagers” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 83, takes off from the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Arabian Gulf Nov. 29, 2023. (U.S. Navy...
A screencap from the video below showing the Kh-101 missile releasing flares, with the boxes showing a Kh-101 missile before being loaded and its wreckage equipped with countermeasures dispensers. (Images from X and Russian military, edited by The Aviationist) The video...
The Su-27UB on display at the NMUSAF. (Image credit: Tom Demerly/TheAviationist.com) There’s an interesting, almost forgotten detail in the history of the mysterious ex-Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 that you can find on display at NMUSAF in Dayton, Ohio: it was brought...
File photo of a Russian Su-34 (Image credit: Wiki/Vadim Savitsky) According to the Ukrainian military, three Su-34 Fullback aircraft would have been shot down over southern Ukraine. On Dec. 22, 2023, Mykola Oleshchuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, announced on...
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) transits the Suez Canal, Nov. 26. Carney is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to help ensure maritime security and stability in the Middle East region. (U.S. Navy photo...
The Il-96 escorted by four Su-35S Flankers and a single F-14 (highlighted) over Iran on Dec. 6, 2023. In the box, a file photo of an IRIAF F-14 (Image credit: The Aviationist, using @shiraz_magazine video via @mhmiranusa, and Tasnim News photo)...
The Su-25 decoy about to be hit by a Russian Lancet. Here comes the documented use of an aircraft decoy by the Ukrainian military. On Nov. 30, 2023, an interesting video started circulating online on Russian Telegram channels. The footage shows...
File photo of a U.S. Army MH-60 Black Hawk with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) during night air-to-air refueling (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Carlos Jimenez) Five crew members aboard a Black Hawk of the U.S. Army 160th...
Two U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft fly over the U.S. Air Force Central Command area of responsibility (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Trevor T. McBride) Two F-16s struck IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) sites in Syria. Early...
A screengrab from the video shot by the B-52’s pod. The close encounter between the U.S. B-52 and the PLA J-11 took place in international airspace over the South China Sea. On Oct. 24, 2023, a Chinese J-11 intercepted a U.S....
