Top 5 future fighter jets of 2020
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Passenger flight diverts to escape Syrian anti-aircraft missiles
A Cham Wings Airlines Airbus A320-200 was forced to make an emergency landing in fear of being targeted…
Bundestag votes to decide the future of European fighter jet
The German Parliament, the Bundestag, is due to vote on the production contract for the demonstrator of the…
Russia signs contracts for Tupolev future strategic bomber PAK-DA
Three days after the United States Air Force shared new visuals of its upcoming B-21 Raider, the Russian…
First RAF P-8A Poseidon touches down in Scotland
The first Boeing P-8A Poseidon of the Royal Air Force (RAF) arrived in the United Kingdom on February…
B-21 new renders show future of USAF strategic bombers
The US Air Force released three artist renders of its future strategic bomber, the B-21 Raider, currently under…
U.S. forces recover bodies and black boxes from E-11A crash site
Two bodies and the flight data recorders from the USAF E-11A plane that crashed in Ghazni, eastern Afghanistan,…
Algerian Su-30 fighter jet crashes in night training, two dead
An Algerian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet crashed in the evening of January 27, 2020, during a routine exercise,…
Mysterious crash in Afghanistan could be USAF plane
Initially thought to be a passenger flight, the aircraft that crashed in Ghazni region, Afghanistan, now appears to…
Dassault and Thales to build the next French electronic spy plane
The French procurement and technology agency, Direction générale de l’armement (DGA) has awarded the Archange airborne strategic intelligence…
Sudan military plane crash kills 18 people
Five minutes after takeoff, an Antonov An-12A of the Sudanese Air Force crashed in Darfur, western Sudan. Eighteen…
Deadly helicopter crash kills Taiwan top military chief
A Taiwanese military helicopter crashed in a mountainous area near the capital of Taipei on January 2, 2020.…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)/how does it work?
In a recent couple of years (UAVs) have amply demonstrated their value and attractiveness with a wide range…
Valentin Bliznyuk, father of Tu-160 supersonic bomber, dies
The aircraft designer for the Tupolev Design Bureau Valentin Bliznyuk, who led the work on the creation of…
KC-390 Millennium completes cargo drop tests
In collaboration with the Brazilian armed forces, Embraer demonstrated the airdrop capacity of the KC-390 Millennium, a critical…
Days after crash, Algeria could show interest for Russian Su-57
On Christmas Eve, a Russian fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jet crashed in Komsomolsk-on-Amur during a test flight. Three…
Mirage 2000D crash final report blames insufficient training
The Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for State Aviation Safety (BEA-É) published its final report regarding the crash…
Not a casino this time: China launches second aircraft carrier
The Chinese military officially put into service the CNS Shandong, its second aircraft carrier, on 17 December 2019.…