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...
The only Black Hawk helicopter in Ukrainian service as it approaches a landing zone. (Screenshot from Ukrainian Directorate of Intelligence video) New details also emerged about the arrival on this helicopter, which appears to be the result of a crowdfunding campaign....
One of the first four MiG-29s that have been transferred to Ukraine. (Image credit: screenshot from Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic YT channel) The four MiG-29 Fulcrum jets have been handed over to the Ukrainian Air Force. First four of...
The beauty of a Sliac AB Mig-29AS belonging to the 1st Fighter Squadron. (Image credit: Jorge Ruivo/The Aviationist) The ex-Slovak Air Force MiG-29s should be delivered in the next few weeks. Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger announced on Mar. 17, 2023,...