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Aviation Safety

Polish Air Force F-16 jet collided with drone

Mid-air with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for a Polish F-16. According to the reports published by several Polish media outlets, on Sept. 15 a Polish Air Force F-16 fighter stationed…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
October 7, 2015
Russia

Mystery deepens as “unidentified MiG-29 Fulcrum” locks on a Turkish F-16 again

It has happened again....a Turkish Air Force F-16 was locked on by an "unidentified" MiG-29. As already reported, on Oct. 3 and 4, 2015, the Turkish airspace was violated by…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 6, 2015
Russia

U.S. F-16s came within 20 miles from Russian Su-34s in Syria

CBS News was given access to CENTCOM radar image showing U.S. and Russian planes not too far one another: yellow aircraft are Russian,  green ones are American. Some "close encounters"…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 6, 2015
Military Aviation

Watch Finnish and Swedish fighter jets take off and land on a Finnish country road during a recent exercise

Finnish and Swedish aircraft take off and land on roads as part of the training. From Sep. 19 to 26 the Finnish Air Force conducted Exercise Baana 2015 which took…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
October 6, 2015
Military Aviation

Russian Su-30SM, Su-24 violate Turkish airspace. Flanker locks on TuAF F-16 for +5 minutes

It looks like a Sukhoi Su-30SM deployed to Syria has had a close encounter with Turkish Air Force F-16s past the Syria-Turkey border. Russian planes deployed to Syria violated the…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 5, 2015
Italian Air Force

First ever swing role course on the T-346 prepares Italian Air Force pilots to the Typhoon and Tornado

The Italian Air Force has recently begun training its first Eurofighter and Tornado pilots on the Alenia Aermacchi T-346A at Lecce airbase, in southeastern Italy. At the beginning of September,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 5, 2015
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