KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine may keep some of the F-16 fighter jets it’s set to receive from its Western allies at foreign bases to protect them from Russian strikes, a senior Ukrainian military officer said Monday. Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway have committed to providing Ukraine with over 60 U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets […]
PARIS (Reuters) – France plans to provide Mirage 2000 warplanes to Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron told French TV stations on Thursday. Macron said that on Friday, on the occasion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s visit to France as part of D-Day anniversary celebrations, his government would announce it will provide the warplanes to Ukraine. He […]
Taiwan has tracked dozens of Chinese warplanes and navy vessels off its coast on Friday. This is the second day of a large military exercise launched by Beijing to show its anger over the self-governing island’s inauguration of new leaders who refuse to accept its insistence that Taiwan is part of China. China has issued […]
Russia said on Monday that it would treat F-16s in Ukraine as an escalation because they’re nuclear-capable. The Foreign Ministry said it would consider the delivery of the jets as a “purposeful provocation.” Meanwhile, the warplanes already used by Ukraine can technically be fitted to deploy nukes too. Russia warned on Monday against the expected arrival […]
By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s military said on Sunday it will discuss with the United States how to use funding for Taipei included in a $95 billion legislative package mostly providing assistance to Ukraine and Israel, as Chinese warplanes again got close to the island. The United States is Taiwan’s most important international supporter […]
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli tanks pushed back into some areas of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday which they had left weeks ago, while warplanes conducted air strikes on Rafah, the Palestinians’ last refuge in the south of the territory, killing and wounding several people, medics and residents said. Residents reported an […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet more than 1,000 autonomously operated drones, and later this spring its top civilian leader plans to climb into one of those artificial intelligence-operated warplanes and let it take him airborne. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told […]
Ukrainian officials said on Friday they had used a barrage of drones to destroy at least six military aircraft and badly damage eight others at an airfield in Russia’s Rostov region. Russian defence officials, however, claimed they intercepted 44 Ukrainian drones and that only a power substation was damaged in the attack. The assault appeared […]
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military said on Thursday it had shot down three more Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers, the latest successes it has reported against Moscow’s air force. “After successful combat operations against an enemy aircraft in the night on Feb. 29, two more Russian aircraft were destroyed: Su-34 fighter-bombers in the Avdiivka and Mariupol sectors,” […]
South Korea and the United States have flown advanced stealth fighters in a joint missile-interception drill over the Korean Peninsula, South Korea’s Air Force said. The drill was an apparent response to a spate of weapons tests this year by rival North Korea. North Korea has conducted six rounds of missile tests so far this […]
Ukraine’s Air Force destroyed two more Russian aircraft on the morning of Monday, 19 February: a Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber and a Su-35 fighter jet. Source: Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of Ukraine’s Air Force, on social media Quote from Syrskyi: Ukraine’s Air Force destroyed two […]
Ukraine’s military shot down two Russian Su-34 fighter jets and another Russian Su-35 combat aircraft on Feb. 17, Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk reported. The destruction of the jets is the latest in a recent uptick of downed Russian planes, including a Beriev A-50 military observation plane in January, which reportedly cost $330 million to […]