Chinese fighter jets are targeting Australian aircraft able to detect submarines with risky air maneuvers. China is making efforts to strengthen its submarine fleet and access deep waters. Chinese aircraft interfering with Australian aircraft is reminiscent of Soviet Cold War-era harassment. Chinese fighter jets keep targeting Australian aircraft capable of finding and defeating submarines with […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian navy on Saturday said it intercepted a bulk carrier that was hijacked by Somali pirates and demanded they surrender. The navy said it intercepted the Maltese-flagged MV Ruen on Friday after it opened fire on an Indian warship in international waters. “The pirates onboard the vessel have been called […]
The Indian navy says it intercepted a bulk carrier that was hijacked by Somali pirates and demanded they surrender. The navy said it intercepted the Maltese-flagged MV Ruen on Friday after it opened fire on an Indian warship in international waters. “The pirates onboard the vessel have been called upon to surrender and release the […]
France has claimed that one of its Mirage 2000 fighter jets intercepted a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft off the coast of Estonia. Source: European Pravda, citing the French General Staff Details: The brief statement said that France had scrambled the Mirage 2000 and intercepted the Il-20 aircraft off the coast of Estonia. “The […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military intercepted a small balloon over the state of Utah on Friday and determined that it posed no threat to civil aviation or to national security, a U.S. official told Reuters. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the balloon also was incapable of maneuvering itself as it […]
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The Moroccan navy said it intercepted 141 people attempting to traverse the Atlantic Ocean as migration from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands has spiked since the beginning of the year. Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces said in a statement Sunday it was able to rescue all passengers on a boat off […]
Intercepted radio conversations of the Russians at the site of the strike on the Russian warship Tsezar Kunikov, loaded with equipment, indicate the destruction of the vessel. Source: Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence (DIU) Details: Visual observation of the ship’s flooding was conducted by Russian helicopters Ka-52 and Mi-8, with information relayed by the military transport aircraft […]
Ukraine intercepted 11 of 17 Shahed drones launched by Russia from the Cape of Chauda in Crimea, on the night of Feb. 8, reported Ukrainian Air Forces on Telegram. Read also: Casualty toll rises to 40 injured and 4 killed in massive Russian missile attack on Ukrainian capital The drones were aimed at various regions, […]
Russia launched 14 Shahed-136/131 attack drones into Ukraine overnight, with air defense forces destroying nine of them, the Air Force reported on Telegram on Feb. 3. The Russian military launched the Shaheds from Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, and Cape Chauda in temporarily occupied Crimea, Ukraine. The drones were destroyed in the Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Mykolaiv, and […]
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The Brazilian Air Force said on Tuesday it fired warning shots at a plane and forced it to land for violating a no-fly ban over the Yanomami Indigenous reservation where illegal gold miners have been returning despite federal efforts to keep them away. Two bursts of machine gun fire were fired during […]
By Krishn Kaushik NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Navy commandos have boarded a hijacked Liberian-flagged vessel in the Arabian Sea and are now carrying out “sanitisation” operations, the navy said on Friday, without elaborating. An Indian Navy warship intercepted the MV Lila Norfolk on Friday afternoon, less than a day after the navy received news that […]
Ukraine intercepted 32 of 46 Iranian Shahed kamikaze drones fired overnight by Russia, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ General Staff reported on Dec. 27. The drones were launched from two directions: Balaklava in temporarily occupied Crimea, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in the Krasnodar Oblast of Russia. Read also: Ukrainian paratrooper uses Kalashnikov rifle to down 5 Russian drones […]