We are awash in bad news from Ukraine. Amazingly, it’s not all bad. While heads of state send troops into harm’s way, most of a nation’s citizenry merely attempts to live a normal life amid the chaos of war. Doing business and...
File photo of an F-16 assigned to the 162nd Wing, Morris Air National Guard Base, Tucson, Ariz., during a training mission last year. Morris ANG Base is home to the Air National Guard’s premier F-16 fighter pilot training unit, the...
Major Andrii Pilshchykov, callsign “Juice”. (Photo: Ukrainian MoD) “Juice” was aboard one of the two L-39s that collided in Zhytomyr Region during a combat mission. One of the most famous Ukrainian Air Force pilots, better known by his callsign “Juice” was...
Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, UkrAF commander, signing a JDAM ER bomb under the Su-27’s wing. (Photo: Ukrainian Air Force) Ukraine now using JDAM-ER bombs on Su-27 Flankers too. About a month after the first photos of the JDAM-ER bombs in Ukraine...
The JDAM-ER installed on the MiG-29 and the Storm Shadow installed on the Su-24. (Photos: Ukrainian Air Force and Twitter sources) Photos posted online show the bomb’s Mk-80 series body and part of its glide kit, as well as a Storm...
The photo signed by the UK’s Secretary of Defence showing a Su-24 armed with Storm Shadow missiles. (Photo: Ukraine’s Minister of Defence via @UAWeapons on Twitter, edited by The Aviationist) The Fencer was long rumored to be the Ukrainian aircraft of...
One of the buildings supposedly hit by the Storm Shadow cruise missiles. (Photo: Reuters) In the boxes: photos from Twitter and Telegram showing debris left by MALD and Storm Shadow. Debris of MALD was found in the Luhansk region, near the...
he Italian VC-319 arriving at Rome-Ciampino airport. (Photo: ANSA) In the box: one of the Eurofighters escorting the Airbus as it arrived in Italy, (Screenshot from Twitter), a P-72A (ITAF) and some of the tracks from the flight tracking websites Military...
A Storm Shadow cruise missile displayed in the RAF Museum, London. (Photo via Wikipedia) The surprise move was announced by the Defence Secretary while addressing the Parliament on the intensification of UK’s military aid to Ukraine. In an unexpected move after...
Artwork showing a Patriot surface-to-air missile being launched at an incoming Kinzhal hypersonic missile. (Photos: U.S. Army photo by Anthony Sweeney and Russian MoD, edited by The Aviationist) The Pentagon’s Press Secretary confirmed the Ukrainian claims during a briefing with the...