In western Ukraine, the head of the Lviv regional military administration said anti-aircraft systems downed four Russian cruise missiles. Maksym Kozytsky said the Russian aircraft that fired the missiles took off from Baranovichi airfield in Belarus. UPDATE 0955 GMT: Overnight Russian airstrikes kille...
In many cases, operators rely on their squadron's aviation platoon. These platoons are composed of aircraft that are painted and outfitted to look like civilian helicopters. These aircraft are even said to have made-up civilian-class registration numbers on them. In missions where it must ...
A Ukrainian Antonov An-225 practicises above Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) While length, height, wingspan and empty weight are all valid criteria in ranking aircraft, the one aviation industry experts most often use to determine which plane is biggest ...
Manufacturer Bayraktar has sold the TB2 to Qatar and Ukraine, while Serbia is eyeing a purchase, raising the TB2′s profile as a competitor to the Chinese Wing Loong II, 50 of which have been exported. “China and Turkey are vying for sales, which begs the question: Why doe...
My Gold subscription is awesome and yet when FR couldn’t detect a rumbling aircraft’s adsb one morning, I knew I had to run outside and identify the beast of an aircraft passing over @ 4000′. And there she was… A beautiful, fully laden Antonov on its way to Ukraine. Thank you ...
“Airline passengers should have confidence that their personal information is not being shared improperly with third parties or mishandled by employees,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. A spokeswoman for the trade group Airlines for America said, “U.S. airlines take customers’ personal...
Now that the bomber is actually flying, it’s worth asking: how many stealth bombers does the United States actually need? With China, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, and North Korea all dominating the headlines for one reason or another, the 80–100 bombers the U.S. Air Force originally wanted...
Some of our readers have had enough... Why should we pay higher water bills? They never fix the leaks quick enough and they should not pay out big dividends to shareholders. Soon it will cost just as much for water as it does for gas and electricity. We are being ri...
Prewar predictions that Ukraine’s army would collapse had largely been based on the assumption Russia’s air force would quickly establish control of Ukraine’s skies. Instead, amid widespread disarray among the invaders, Russia’s army shot down a number of its own aircraft in the early days...
The Longbow Apache detects surrounding ground forces, aircraft and buildings using a radar dome mounted to the mast. The radar dome uses millimeter radio waves that can make out the shape of anything in range. The radar signal processor compares these shapes to a database of tanks, trucks, ...