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Reports: Syrian Su-22 “Shot Down” Down Near Idlib, Pilot Reported as Ejected.

Syrian Insurgents Claim Aircraft Was Shot Down Just After Take-Off. Reports surfacing across international media say that the Syrian insurgent group Tahrir al-Sham has shot down a Syrian Arab Air Force...

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Israel Defense Forces Shoot Civilian Light Aircraft on Golan Heights...

The aircraft was considered as a hostile aircraft coming from Syria. After realizing the mistake, troops ceased fire and the aircraft landed safely. The Israel Defense Forces released a statement in...

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U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles Carry Out Air Strike On Coalition Headquarters in...

U.S. F-15E bombed Lafarge Cement Factory, an anti-ISIS base in northern Syria, because Turkey-backed fighters closed in. Two U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft supporting Operation Inherent...

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Interesting Images Of C-17s Loading Materiel At Kobani Landing Zone During...

“Kobani Landing Zone remains open to facilitate the additional movement of troops and equipment outside of Syria.” The U.S. Department of Defense has just released some interesting shots showing a U.S....

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Military Artist “Envisioned” Raid on al-Baghdadi Years Ago and Painted This.

Painter Stuart Brown’s Depiction of Dog and Breech is Hauntingly Predictive. The news is abuzz with memes and stories about the Belgian Malinois military dog attached to a secretive U.S. Army special...

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U.S. Central Command Releases Videos of Raid to Capture ISIS Leader in Syria.

Videos Show Operatives Moving Toward Objective, Preparing to Breach Wall And JASSM Used to Level Baghdadi’s Compound. The U.S. Central Command has released footage showing the beginning of the raid to...

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Airbus A320 With 172 Passengers On Board Nearly Hit By Syrian Air Defense...

An A320 had to make an emergency landing at Khmeimim air base, in Syria, after Syrian air defense almost hit the airliner according to the Russian MoD. News outlets around the world are reporting that...

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Two Syrian Su-24 Fencer Jets And A Turkish Drone Shot Down Over Idlib Region,...

The Turkish Air Force shot down two Syrian Su-24 Fencers today. A Turkish Anka-S drone drone was also downed. On Mar. 1, 2020, two Syrian Arab Air Force Su-24 jets and a Turkish Anka-S drone [...]

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Syrian L-39 Shot Down By Turkish Air Force F-16 Over Syria

Third kill over Idlib by the Turkish Air Force in three days. Both the Turkish Ministry of Defense and the Syrian News Agency SANA have confirmed that a Syrian L-39 Albatros was shot down in [...]

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F-16 Carried Out “Show Of Force” Over Hasakah As ISIS Members Tried To Escape...

A fast and low flyby is a way flex muscles and intimidate those on the ground. An interesting new clip has emerged from Syria: it shows an F-16 Fighting Falcon (or “Viper”, as the type [...]

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Here’s The Route Flown By The US Navy P-8A “Unsafely” Intercepted By Two...

We get a better idea of the area of operations of the P-8A that had a tense “close encounter” with two Su-35s. As we have reported in detail in this previous article, a U.S. Navy [...]

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U.S. F-15 Performs “Visual Inspection” of Iranian Airliner Flying Near U.S....

Some Iranian Mahan Air Passengers Sustained Injuries as Airliner Maneuvered During Intercept. U.S. Central Command has confirmed that a U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagle performed a visual daytime intercept...

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U.S. Army AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter Performs Precautionary Landing In Syria

The Helicopter Safely Returned To Base After Checking Out A Possible Transmission Fault. A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter performed a precautionary landing during an operational mission over...

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492nd FS Deployment Video Shows F-15E Strike Eagle Flying Low Over strategic...

The 492nd FS OIR (Operation Inherent Resolve) 2020 video includes an interesting low pass over al-Tanf garrison in Syria. In October 2020, the 492nd Fighter Squadron “Bolars”, belonging to the 48th FW...

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Nine U.S. Marine Corps And Eight RAF F-35Bs Have Embarked On HMS Queen Elizabeth

17 F-35Bs have already landed aboard British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth ahead of CSG21 deployment. As already reported 10 USMC F-35Bs aircraft, belonging to the VMFA-211 Wake Island Avengers,...

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F-35B Jets From HMS Queen Elizabeth Have Joined The Fight Against Daesh

UK Carrier Strike Group launching F-35B missions in support of Operation Shader from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. On her maiden operational deployment, HMS Queen Elizabeth, with F-35B jets belonging...

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F-35B From British Aircraft Carrier Had A Close Encounter With A Russian Navy...

A Russian exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, involving five warships as well as Tu- 142MK, Il-38, Tu-22M3 and MiG-31K aircraft, provided an opportunity for a close encounter with at least one...

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Upcoming Russian Movie Recalls The Story Of The RuAF Su-24 Shot Down In Syria...

The Russian movie “Sky” is based on the shootdown of the Russian Air Force Su-24 over Syria in 2015 and the pilot killed after successfully ejecting from the Fencer with the weapon system officer....

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RAF Typhoon’s First Air-To-Air Kill: Terrorist Drone Shot Down In Syria

A Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 has shot down a “small hostile drone” in Syria. In what the UK Ministry of Defence called an “unprecedented event”, an RAF Typhoon conducted the type’s first ever...

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U.S. Forces Have Captured Another Daesh Senior Leader During Night Helicopter...

The raid took place in northeast Syria, near the Turkish border. One of the top leaders of Daesh’s Syrian branch was captured during a night raid in northeast Syria on June 15, 2022. The captured [...]...

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