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March 22, 2019 Here’s The Task Force The Italian Air Force Has Deployed To Protect China’s President Xi Jinping During His First Visit To Rome Military Aviation
March 21, 2019 Civilian Passenger Ejected From A French Two-Seat Rafale B Jet During Take Off Aviation Safety / Air Crashes
March 21, 2019 Two Russian Tu-142 Maritime Reconnaissance and Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft Intercepted by Italian Typhoons Off Iceland Rogue States
March 20, 2019 Italian Air Force F-35 Jets Take Part In “Lightning Thunder Over Europe” Exercise F-35
March 19, 2019 U.S. B-52 Bombers Belonging To Task Force Deployed To UK Perform “Theater Familiarization Flights” Across Europe Military Aviation

Russia blocks passage in Kerch Strait Near Crimea, Deploys Su-25 Jets And Ka-52 Attack Helicopters.

November 25, 2018 David Cenciotti 0

Moscow has blocked passage through the Kerch Strait, between Crimea and mainland Russia, after three Ukrainian navy ships made what the Russian authorities have called a violation of Russian territorial waters. Russia has stopped all […]

Everything We Know About The Hunt for Missing Argentine Submarine

November 21, 2017 Tom Demerly 4

U.S. Navy Maritime Patrol Aircraft along with several other assets race against time in dramatic search. The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy have dispatched a large number of transport and maritime surveillance aircraft […]

B-52, B-1, Typhoon and V-22 Among The assets Supporting A Spectacular Beach Landing Operation During BALTOPS 2017

June 26, 2017 Jacek Siminski 6

This Is What A Modern Beach Landing Operation In The Baltic Region Would Look Like. BALTOPS 2017 is the largest military exercise organized in the Baltic region this year. The operation was held by the […]

U.S. B-1, B-52 bombers acted as non-traditional ISR platforms during a big drug-interdiction operation

December 28, 2016 David Cenciotti 2

For one week U.S. Air Force’s Southern Command undertook a surge of its operations against the trafficking of illicit drugs into the United States, using bombers flying as NTISR (non-traditional intelligence surveillance reconnaissance) aircraft. U.S. […]

NATO hunting at least one Russian Navy Oscar II Class submarine that is chasing aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea

December 9, 2016 David Cenciotti 14

Several Maritime Patrol Aircraft are involved in a big hunt: one (possibly two) Oscar II-class submarine that Russia has sent after NATO warships. According to military sources close to The Aviationist, a big hunt is […]