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September 12, 2024 New M-346 Jet For The Frecce Tricolori Display Team Breaks Cover Italian Air Force
September 12, 2024 New AIM-120D AMRAAM Variant Will Be ‘Complementary’ to the Secretive AIM-260 JATM – Raytheon Exec Weapons
September 11, 2024 China’s J-20A Prototype Captured in First Clear Image with WS-15 Engine China
September 11, 2024 VX-9 F/A-18F Spotted With Heavy Air-to-Air Load of AIM-174s and AIM-120s Military Aviation
September 10, 2024 2nd Bomb Wing Activates New Bomber Generation Squadrons at Barksdale AFB Military Aviation

MiG-21 Jets Scrambled After Weather Balloon Is Detected In Romania’s Airspace

February 14, 2023 David Cenciotti

The Romanian Air Force investigated a “suspicious” weather balloon. Two RoAF (Romanian Air Force) MiG-21 LanceR jets were scrambled after the service’s surveillance system detected an aerial object that looked like a weather balloon flying […]

U.S. Air Force F-22 Shoots Down ‘High Altitude Object’ Over Alaska

February 10, 2023 Tom Demerly David Cenciotti

Six Days After U.S. F-22 Shoots Down Balloon, A Second Object Has Been Downed. National Security Council official John Kirby confirmed on Friday that the U.S. has downed another “high altitude object” over Alaska that […]