The Su-27UB Flanker C recently acquired by the Museum. (Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force) The Su-27 is expected to join the Museum’s Cold War Gallery this fall. The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force announced the acquisition...
A new anti-drone protection system is being tested in Russia (via FighterBomber) Russians are not only using car tires to protect their aircraft from Ukrainian kamikaze drones…. As already reported in details recent satellite imagery of Engels-2 airbase has exposed a...
One of the higher resolution images showing the tires on the bomber and the missing engine. (Edit from the MAXAR satellite image) The new satellite photos of some Tu-95s covered with car tires and missing their engines have prompted new theories....
File photo of an Su-34 (Image credit: Vitaly V. Kuzmin/Wiki) Until now, only MiG-31K aircraft were known to have employed the Kinzhal missile in combat. A Russian Aerospace Forces Su-34 Fullback bomber used the Kinzhal missile against an unknown target in...
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...
A file photo of a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 UAV and the moment if was shot down. (Photo: Ukraine MoD and Sergei Supinsky/Getty Images) The drone, initially thought to be a Russian UAV, was brought down by a missile over the center...
