Separately, Israel's Channel 10 TV said a Russian warplane approached an Israeli warplane off the Mediterranean coast of Syria last week but that there was no contact between them.
|
|
So how do you go from test balloon to warplane?
|
|
Fifty PSI is way too little for a real warplane.
|
|
Israel also shot down a Syrian warplane that entered its airspace.
|
|
Only last month, a US warplane shot down a Syrian jet.
|
|
The ministry described the downed jet as an L-39 warplane.
|
|
It is still the Pentagon's main warplane for delivering atomic munitions.
|
|
What if an American warplane gets shot down by Syrian air defenses?
|
|
How the warplane drama unfolded Turkey feels the pinch He wasn't kidding.
|
|
One warplane targeted both hospitals, according to the Syrian American Medical Society.
|
|
Also, a Syrian jet was downed by a U.S. warplane in June.
|
|
In one incident last month, Syrian rebels shot down a Russian warplane.
|
|
The $214 billion warplane project is the largest arms program in the world.
|
|
The Observatory said a Syrian warplane had crashed in Dakwa, southeast of Damascus.
|
|
It denied a Syrian statement that a warplane and drone were shot down.
|
|
The past 10 days have seen Syrian rebels shoot down a Russian warplane.
|
|
Russians stopped coming after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane over Syria last November.
|
|
No comment was immediately available from Italy, which also operates the stealthy new warplane.
|
|
One neighbor, Walid Khamis, said he had heard a single warplane before the strike.
|
|
The two nations have argued over whether the warplane was over Turkey or Syria.
|
|
Why would an American warplane destroy a working hospital full of doctors and patients?
|
|
Introduced in 2017, the heavyweight twin-engine J-20 is China's most advanced warplane.
|
|
Six F-16 warplane pilots were among those set to be detained, it added.
|
|
The spokesman said the warplane was downed with an advanced air-to-ground missile.
|
|
But no sooner was that discussion concluded than a Syrian SU-22 warplane appeared.
|
|
That could make it easier for North Korea to shoot down an American warplane.
|
|
ISIS shoots down Syrian warplane In further violence, a Syrian warplane was shot down Wednesday during a combat mission against ISIS in the eastern Qalamoun area near the capital, Damascus, but the pilot was rescued, Syrian state media reported, quoting a military source.
|
|
Having a principal warplane in common will make it easier to swap data and tactics.
|
|
The new, radar-evading, "fifth-generation" F-353 warplane is years late and over-budget.
|
|
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - An eastern Libyan warplane crashed on Sunday in southern Tripoli, military sources said.
|
|
At least one warplane carried out an air strike in the area, a resident said.
|
|
Tensions reached a boiling point that year when Turkish forces shot down a Russian warplane.
|
|
During World War II, a U.S. warplane dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima on Aug.
|
|
Syria then fired at the flights and says it knocked down a warplane and a drone.
|
|
A warplane files over Jobar district of Damascus, Syria during the Russian army's airstrikes on Feb.
|
|
But the Warthog is a rare example of a warplane that has kept the tradition going.
|
|
Turkish forces in late November shot down the warplane, which Ankara said had violated its airspace.
|
|
In November, Turkey shot down a Russian warplane that it said entered its airspace near Syria.
|
|
To be sure, China has made warplane engine development a priority in recent years, sources said.
|
|
The warning came after a U.S. fighter shot down a Syrian warplane for the first time.
|
|
The threat came after a U.S. fighter for the first time shot down a Syrian warplane.
|
|
It was also the first downing of an Israeli warplane by enemy fire since that conflict.
|
|
Ties between Moscow and Ankara have been strained after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane last November.
|
|
Following the warplane incident, Putin imposed sanctions on Turkey and trade between the two countries has dived.
|
|
The U.S. Air Force fielded its first radar-evading warplane - the F-117 attack jet - in 1983.
|
|
During its heyday, the B-25 was a respectable warplane -- distinguished by its twin-tail and versatility.
|
|
A warning has come in: A Russian warplane is circling Jisr al-Shughur, an opposition-held city.
|
|
She said the name of the new warplane would be chosen in a contest among service members.
|
|
Russia's relationship with Turkey deteriorated sharply after the Turks' shooting-down of a Russian warplane in November.
|
|
Ties between Moscow and Ankara have been strained since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane last November.
|
|
For one thing, she is dead, killed three years ago when a warplane bombed her apartment block.
|
|
Japan: The country's military recovered parts of an F-35A warplane that disappeared during a training exercise.
|
|
Others blamed the United States for supplying Syrian rebels with weapons capable of shooting down the warplane.
|
|
The war has gone on so long — the first allied warplane and cruise missiles struck on Oct.
|
|
Russia conducted "warplane diplomacy" in the zone near the capital by threatening specific neighborhoods with heavy airstrikes.
|
|
A fighter at one outpost said a U.S. warplane recently made a low pass over their position.
|
|
Moscow has been looking for ways to taunt Turkey since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane in November.
|
|
Russian-Turkish relations took a hit after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane last year, but improved recently.
|
|
American carriers retired the S-3 Viking submarine-hunting warplane in 2009, leaving shorter-range helicopters to compensate.
|
|
The 33-hour mission, which included refueling, tested all phases of an attack mission involving a Rafale warplane.
|
|
The much-delayed F-35 fighter jet, America's cutting-edge warplane, is also expected to make an appearance.
|
|
On Friday, IS said that a Syrian warplane had been shot down, but did not specifically claim responsibility.
|
|
Earlier, the Houthis said they targeted warplane hangars and other military sites in Saudi Jizan airport as well.
|
|
The Syrian state news agency SANA separately reported that a Syrian warplane had been targeted by Turkish forces.
|
|
The strike was carried out Thursday in eastern Hodeida province by a "US-Saudi" warplane, the council said.
|
|
He posted a photograph on Instagram of at least one warplane that he said had not been damaged.
|
|
In 1987, an Iraqi warplane attacked an American Navy frigate, the Stark, on patrol in the Persian Gulf.
|
|
Background reading: • The United States recently shot down a Syrian warplane as well as two Iranian-made drones.
|
|
It was unclear whether the strike came from an American warplane or one from the other coalition partners.
|
|
Yemen Houthis said on Wednesday that they had intercepted a coalition warplane near the border with Saudi Arabia.
|
|
The downed F-16 was the first warplane Israel has lost to enemy fire since its 1982 Lebanon war.
|
|
Another resident of the Pacific island snapped a photo of the rusted wreckage of a warplane years after that.
|
|
There was a Lockheed Martin float in the parade that had a big model of a warplane on it.
|
|
The Qaher F3053 that first appeared on Iranian state media in February 2013 was clearly not a flyable warplane.
|
|
"That's rubbish": General Jack Keane responds to Russia's warning after the U.S. shot down a Syrian warplane. https://t.
|
|
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it "intercepted" a Syrian warplane that penetrated Israeli-controlled airspace.
|
|
In November 2015, the Turkish military shot down a Russian warplane that was bombing targets along the Syrian-Turkish border.
|
|
In 2015 Turkish pilots shot down a Russian warplane, and the two powers appeared on the brink of another war.
|
|
With Russia now at odds with Turkey over the downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Nov.
|
|
Every sound has a unique signature, whether it's a reggae song, a human voice, or the roar of a warplane.
|
|
But the Syrian army said it hit an Israeli warplane after it breached its airspace at the Syria-Lebanon border.
|
|
Dassault is offering to be architect of the warplane project but discussions are at a very early stage, he added.
|
|
Mr. Obama's skepticism appeared warranted when the aid convoy was hit by a warplane that American officials believe was Russian.
|
|
Islamic State militants also claim to have shot down a Syrian warplane flying over the countryside outside Damascus on Friday.
|
|
Go deeper: After an aging Indian warplane was shot down by Pakistan, New Delhi's military preparedness is under renewed scrutiny.
|
|
If the administration chooses the latter, then what happens if Pyongyang isn't bluffing and actually fires on a US warplane?
|
|
It was not immediately clear whether the warplane had intentionally penetrated Israeli-controlled airspace or had strayed from its path.
|
|
That followed months of tension between Ankara and Moscow after Turkey downed a Russian warplane over Syria late last year.
|
|
Relations soured after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane over Syria last year, but ties were formally restored in August.
|
|
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian government warplane was targeted by Turkish forces in Idlib on Tuesday, state news agency SANA reported.
|
|
The offensive use of an F-16 warplane against its neighbor might have been a violation of the sales agreement.
|
|
This past Sunday, the US shot down a Syrian warplane, the first time America had done that during Syria's civil war.
|
|
Ever since people started making combat aircraft, making them faster has been a pretty surefire way to guarantee a better warplane.
|
|
A year later Turkey's airforce shot down a Russian warplane which had entered its airspace after a run over northern Syria.
|
|
Relations with Russia, traditionally a major source of tourism, soured after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane over Syria last year.
|
|
Complaints against Congress President Rahul Gandhi focus on his allegations of corruption over a warplane deal struck by the Modi government.
|
|
The warplane produced by the most expensive weapons program ever is finally ready for combat, after many troubled years of development.
|
|
The relationship soured after Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 warplane that it violated its airspace near Syria in November.
|
|
The US Air Force is developing a missile-carrying flying robot that's compatible with any standard warplane, potentially including armed drones.
|
|
Three days after a U.S. warplane dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug.
|
|
In an interview with Fox News's Brett Baier on April 9, Shanahan — completely unprompted — criticized Lockheed Martin's flagship F-35 warplane.
|
|
Soon after Russia began its air campaign on behalf of Mr. Assad's government in 2015, Turkey shot down a Russian warplane.
|
|
About five hours into its journey, a helicopter circled overhead, followed by a warplane, which dropped a bomb on the boat.
|
|
The move also came as tensions in the Middle East rose, with Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed they intercepted a Saudi warplane.
|
|
Yemen's Houthi rebels said Wednesday they intercepted a Saudi F-15 warplane, according to Reuters, which Kilduff said "spooked" the market.
|
|
Moscow imposed economic sanctions on Ankara as relations soured after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane over Syria in November 2015.
|
|
The JASSM-ER, a cruise missile fired from a warplane, can travel more than 900km, about the distance from Okinawa to Shanghai.
|
|
Monday, Moscow threatened to down US fighter jets battling ISIS in retaliation for a US shoot-down of a Syrian government warplane.
|
|
Pakistan's military has denied using F-16 jets in shooting down India's warplane but did not confirm which planes its military used.
|
|
Russia threatened on Monday to target American and allied aircraft the day after the United States military brought down a Syrian warplane.
|
|
Some of the trade restrictions went into effect following Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane near the Turkey-Syria border in 2015.
|
|
After a few tense minutes, we would hear the sound of a missile fired by a coalition warplane and the car exploding.
|
|
An American fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane that had been preparing to bomb American-backed rebels who are fighting Islamic State.
|
|
A diplomatic row with Moscow, which slapped economic sanctions on Turkey after Ankara downed a Russian warplane last year, has exacerbated its woes.
|
|
France, for instance, was initially part of the Eurofighter project in the 1980s, but dropped out to build its own rival Rafale warplane.
|
|
Relations between Moscow and Ankara deteriorated sharply after the Turkish military shot down a Russian warplane in November along the Turkish-Syrian border.
|
|
Plans for the TurkStream gas pipeline were suspended late last year after Turkish forces shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border.
|
|
Mobile ground-launchers are cheaper than a warship or warplane, can be hidden more easily and have no other missions to distract them.
|
|
France recently tested a missile launch from a warplane at an undisclosed time and Russia tested its RS-24 Yars ICBM just yesterday.
|
|
On Monday, a warplane attacked Tripoli's only functioning airport as eastern forces advancing on the Libyan capital disregarded international appeals for a truce.
|
|
It added that a portable air-defense system was used to bring down a Syrian MiG-21 warplane over Hama province on Saturday.
|
|
The identity of the warplane was not confirmed, but the sources did not rule out the possibility that it was Russian "friendly fire".
|
|
For a few terrifying minutes, a warplane circled over neighborhoods and humming afternoon markets before dropping a bomb that momentarily silenced the guns.
|
|
A U.S. warplane dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing thousands of people instantly and about 140,000 by the end of that year.
|
|
An LNA warplane also attacked the only partly functioning airport in Tripoli, Mitiga, where anti-aircraft guns opened fire in response, witnesses said.
|
|
Pro-militia factions also reported that a Libyan Air Force warplane had been shot down by Islamic State fighters in Surt on Wednesday.
|
|
The UK-based monitoring group said helicopters dropped two bombs on the town of Shifouniyeh and a warplane struck the town of Aftaris.
|
|
The warning came at a time when Pakistan's military was particularly confident, having recently shot down an Indian warplane and captured its pilot.
|
|
Over Iranian territorial waters, the passenger jet was shot down by the Vincennes, a missile cruiser, which mistook it for an Iranian warplane.
|
|
For instance, America's new manned warplane, the F-35, was supposed to give the US the advantage in the skies for a generation.
|
|
Airstrikes escalated in recent days after a Russian warplane was shot down over the weekend in the rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib.
|
|
That warplane crashed in northern Israel while returning from a bombing raid on what Israel said was an Iranian military installation in Syria.
|
|
The relationship has thawed in recent months after hitting a low point last November when Turkey shot down a Russian warplane over Syria.
|
|
Putin said that the assassination had even made him reconsider whether the warplane downing may have happened without direct order from Turkish leadership.
|
|
Erdogan was enraged with Russia when it first entered the war, and Turkey shot down a Russian warplane over its airspace in late 2015.
|
|
The warplane incident provoked major diplomatic discord between the two countries, with Russia imposing sanctions on Turkey that struck a major blow to trade.
|
|
It's the first time the two leaders have met since Turkish interceptors blasted a Russian warplane out of the skies over Syria in November.
|
|
The statement said that Syrian air defense shot down a warplane southwest of al-Quneitra, and a drone west of the town of SaaSaa.
|
|
If he signed up, it would send him a Facebook or Telegram message to let him know a government warplane was heading his way.
|
|
A number of French defense firms, ranging from Rafale warplane maker Dassault to systems' contractor Thales, are among companies involved in the study phase.
|
|
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian warplane crashed northeast of Damascus on Friday and insurgents captured and killed its pilot, rebel and Syrian military sources said.
|
|
In one particularly egregious incident, a coalition warplane hit a school bus last August with an American-made bomb, killing at least 40 children.
|
|
A Russian Su-34 warplane allegedly violated Turkish airspace on Friday, further raising tensions that were already running high along Turkey's border with Syria.
|
|
The warplane, an F-22017A, disappeared over the waters east of Aomori Prefecture on the northern part of Honshu, Japan's largest island, on Tuesday.
|
|
The tensions escalated into an aerial dogfight that ended when a Pakistani jet shot down an Indian warplane and Pakistan's military captured the pilot.
|
|
On Sunday, the American military shot down a Syrian warplane, the first time it had done so since Syria's civil war began in 2011.
|
|
Towering above all of these was a full-sized model of a sleek warplane with sprawling wings and a nose like a bulbous arrowhead.
|
|
Britain has said it will eventually buy 3503 of the aircraft, which are described by the British government as the next step in warplane technology.
|
|
Anti-aircraft fire had just shot down Bezabih's MiG 21 warplane while he was on a bombing sortie and he parachuted into Asmara, Eritrea's capital.
|
|
Britain has said it will eventually buy 138 of the aircraft, which are described by the British government as the next step in warplane technology.
|
|
He had been sitting outside his home in Homs, Syria, in 2011 when he heard a warplane swoop low in preparation to drop a bomb.
|
|
Nusra has held the hill against regime counterattacks and in the face of intense regime bombing, and on Tuesday, rebels even downed a regime warplane.
|
|
The front lines were mostly calm on Sunday morning but military sources said in the afternoon that an eastern Libyan warplane crashed in southern Tripoli.
|
|
Ah, November 2015, when Turkey shot down that Russian warplane, the first time a NATO state had shot down a Russian plane since the 1950s!
|
|
The U.S. did not use its communication channel with Russia ahead of the downing of the Syrian government warplane, the ministry was quoted as saying.
|
|
The strike comes amid tensions after a US warplane downed Syrian jet, the first time the US has shot down a manned aircraft since 1999.
|
|
The warplane did not turn on its radar and had no weapons under its wings, showing that it was not in attack mode, officials said.
|
|
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian government warplane crashed in Idlib province on Wednesday after being targeted by rebel groups, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
|
|
In fact, a coalition warplane bombed a school bus full of children last August with an American-made bomb — killing at least 40 of them.
|
|
On Sunday, a U.S. warplane shot down a Syrian army jet southwest of Raqqa, with Washington saying the army had dropped bombs near the SDF.
|
|
In another episode on Thursday, a Russian warplane intercepted an American reconnaissance plane at an unsafe distance over the Baltic Sea, CNN reported, citing Capt.
|
|
Earlier this week, Syrian state media said air defenses struck an Israeli warplane and shot down missiles targeting the T4 air base in Homs province.
|
|
But imagine how this might work: An American warplane enforcing a no-fly zone would risk fire from a Russian-made antiaircraft battery or fighter.
|
|
General Tod Wolters, the top U.S. Air Force general in Europe and NATO's Allied Air Commander, said the new warplane was taking root in Europe.
|
|
Russia threatened to target any American and coalition planes that flew west of the Euphrates River after the U.S. downed a Syrian warplane days earlier.
|
|
On Monday, Russia threatened to target American and other coalition aircraft over Syria a day after an American fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane.
|
|
A few months ago, Syria claimed, falsely, to have downed an Israeli warplane and a drone with surface-to-air missiles during a border clash.
|
|
If you're in an all-bets-are-off scenario, then you're going to utilize every capability that you have, you're going to mobilize every warplane.
|
|
A U.S. military spokesman said an American warplane had conducted a strike in Kunduz on Sunday, but the command did "not have confirmation of the results".
|
|
McCain (center) is rescued from Hanoi's Truc Bach Lake by several Hanoi residents after his Navy warplane was downed by the North Vietnamese Army on Oct.
|
|
The costume used other other real-world items, ranging from parts of the ejection seat harness in a British warplane to a specific computer heat sink.
|
|
She said Taiwan may need to buy from its sole arms supplier the F-35 fighter jet, the most advanced stealth warplane in the U.S. arsenal.
|
|
In recent months they have been normalizing ties that broke down a year ago when Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the border with Syria.
|
|
In recent months they have been normalizing ties that broke down a year ago when Turkey shot down a Russian warplane along its border with Syria.
|
|
The US shot down a pro-Syrian regime drone in the Syrian skies on Monday, just days after the US shot down a Syrian government warplane.
|
|
At the end of November Turkish jets shot down a Russian warplane which they claimed had strayed into Turkey's airspace, causing a storm of Russian indignation.
|
|
Ties between Moscow and Ankara were repaired last month after hitting a low in November 2015 when Turkey downed a Russian warplane near the Syrian border.
|
|
Relations between Moscow and Ankara have been badly strained since Turkey last year shot down a Russian warplane taking part in Moscow's military campaign in Syria.
|
|
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The jihadist group Tahrir al-Sham said it shot down a warplane over Idlib province on Wednesday, identifying the jet as a Sukhoi 22.
|
|
In a statement released on its Telegram feed, Tahrir al-Sham said the warplane was shot down near the town of al-Tamanah in southern Idlib.
|
|
A Russian reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Mediterranean Sea on Monday when it was mistaken for an Israeli warplane by Russia's own ally, Syria.
|
|
The Super Hornet is a twin-engine warplane designed to fly from either aircraft carriers or ground bases on both air-superiority and ground-attack missions.
|
|
Ankara's relations with Moscow collapsed in 2015 when Turkey shot down a Russian warplane but have recovered since then - to the concern of Turkey's Western allies.
|
|
Wednesday's approval comes following a long-running saga that has seen a succession of Bulgarian governments fail to make a decision on which warplane to pick.
|
|
My colleague Alex Ward explains: This past Sunday, the US shot down a Syrian warplane, the first time America had done that during Syria's civil war.
|
|
"Red Birds" centers on a wisecracking and callous American pilot, Major Ellie, who crashes his $65 million warplane in the desert on his 637th bombing mission.
|
|
In April last year, a government warplane dropped sarin on Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib, killing more than 80 civilians, the U.N. Commission of Inquiry has said.
|
|
Two days earlier, an American F/A-18 shot down a Syrian SU-22 warplane that had dropped bombs near American-backed fighters south of Tabqa.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. warplane on Sunday shot down a Syrian military aircraft that dropped bombs near U.S.-backed fighters in Syria, the U.S. military said.
|
|
Last month, Syrian rebels denied a Russian Defence Ministry report that an anti-aircraft missile had been used to shoot down a Syrian warplane in Hama province.
|
|
On Monday, a warplane took out Tripoli's only functioning airport, and the number of displaced people - 3,400 at the last U.N. count - is mounting alongside the casualties.
|
|
Turkey had halted strikes as Russia worked on its air defense system after Syrian anti-government insurgents shot down a Russian warplane elsewhere in Syria on Feb.
|
|
Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, said Lockheed Martin had been responsive to his concerns about the high cost of the stealthy, high-tech warplane.
|
|
France and Germany are expected to announce initial details about the planned new warplane development program at the ILA Berlin Air Show, which starts on April 25.
|
|
Talks between Moscow and Ankara about the project were also suspended in October 2015 after the Turkish military downed a Russian warplane near the Turkish-Syrian border.
|
|
Relations between the two nations were plunged into crisis in November last year after NATO member state Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border.
|
|
A feud with Russia, which began last year after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the border, ended after Mr. Erdogan expressed regret for the episode.
|
|
The comments by Lavrov are the latest confrontation between Moscow and Ankara, after Turkish jets shot down a Russian warplane near the Turkish-Syrian border in November.
|
|
The incident took place in skies over Okanogan County in Washington state on Thursday, when a Navy E/A-18 Growler warplane flew the unusual air pattern.
|
|
Theories about the cause of the crash include pilot miscalculations of altitude, sabotage and an attack from a warplane flown by a mercenary pilot for the secessionists.
|
|
But a Syrian warplane appeared hours later and began maneuvering to bomb the American-backed fighters, only to be intercepted by an American F/A-18 jet.
|
|
North Korea last shot down an American warplane in 1969, killing all 31 members of the crew of a spy plane that was flying off its coast.
|
|
The fog of war showed itself in 3007, when an Iraqi warplane mistook the frigate USS Stark for an Iranian tanker and fired two missiles at it.
|
|
Lockheed Martin, which makes the F-35 warplane, has held the top slot for a decade; it is followed by Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and General Dynamics.
|
|
Dassault Aviation and Airbus will build the warplane which is expected to be operational from 2040, with a view to replacing Dassault's Rafale and Germany's Eurofighter over time.
|
|
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's military said a Syrian warplane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in Aleppo province and that its pilot ejected, state media reported.
|
|
A warplane crashed southeast of Damascus airport on Friday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict with a network of sources on the ground.
|
|
Rebels described intense air strikes in the southern Aleppo area where the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front shot down a Syrian warplane on Tuesday and captured its pilot.
|
|
BEIRUT (Reuters) - An air strike carried out by an unidentified warplane killed seven Hezbollah fighters in eastern Syria, three sources familiar with the incident told Reuters on Monday.
|
|
A U.S. fighter jet had to take evasive action to avoid colliding with an Iranian drone that came within 28503 feet of the warplane, the Navy confirmed Tuesday.
|
|
Three months later, the American warship Vincennes fired missiles that downed a civilian Iranian jetliner that the Americans say they mistook for a warplane, killing 290 people aboard.
|
|
Islamic State fighters released a message through their Amaq news agency, claiming that they had captured a pilot of a Syrian warplane whose aircraft crashed southeast of Damascus.
|
|
WASHINGTON — An American warplane shot down a "pro-Syria regime" drone on Thursday after the drone attacked United States-backed fighters in southern Syria, the American military said.
|
|
That would mark the end of a decades-long split since France withdrew from the Eurofighter project in the 1980s to produce its Rafale warplane with Dassault Aviation.
|
|
In one particularly egregious incident, a coalition warplane bombed a school bus full of children last August with an American-made bomb, killing at least 40 of them.
|
|
In May 2015 a Moroccan F-16 warplane crashed while on a mission with the alliance in Yemen, and the Houthi militia said tribesmen had shot down the aircraft.
|
|
Putin said Erdogan's letter this week, which expressed regret over Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane last year, had created conditions to close "the crisis chapter" in bilateral relations.
|
|
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday accused Russia of continuing to violate Turkish airspace, three months after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border.
|
|
Tensions were further strained last week when Turkey summoned the Russian ambassador in Ankara to protest and condemn what it called a violation of airspace by a Russian warplane.
|
|
Joe DellaVedova, the Pentagon's spokesman for the F-353, says the combination of aircraft and HMDS means the new warplane can safely handle combat roles that no other can.
|
|
Those comments came after Turkish forces shot down a Russian warplane over Syria, when ties between the countries were at their worst since the end of the Cold War.
|
|
Tensions between Russia and Turkey have been rising in recent months, especially since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane that violated its airspace from Syria back in November 2015.
|
|
Still, in June, the SDF accused the Syrian military of bombing its positions in Raqqa province, and the United States shot down a government warplane in Syria's crowded airspace.
|
|
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels shot down a Syrian warplane in the opposition stronghold of Idlib province on Wednesday as Russian-backed government forces closed in on a strategically important town.
|
|
Even the warplane engine that experts consider to be China's best has reliability issues, said the sources, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
|
|
CAIRO — Two air force pilots from the United Arab Emirates were killed on Monday when their warplane crashed while fighting over Yemen, according to Saudi Arabia's official news agency.
|
|
It was only the second time during the seven-year Syrian war that Israel had intercepted a warplane, and Israeli forces were on alert for any possible Syrian retaliation.
|
|
North Korea last shot down an American warplane in 1969, during the Nixon administration, killing all 31 crew members of a spy plane that was flying off its coast.
|
|
MOSCOW — NATO fighter jets confronted a plane carrying Russia's defense minister in neutral airspace over the Baltic Sea on Wednesday morning before being chased away by a Russian warplane.
|
|
Earlier the same night, Phillips has Mr. Richter's "Düsenjager," estimated at $25 million to $35 million, part of a small group of warplane pictures created between 1963 and 1964.
|
|
Tensions between Israel and Iran have increased in recent months, with the downing of an Israeli warplane by Syria and following the interception of an Iranian drone over Israel.
|
|
Meanwhile, Turkey's military suffered its worst day yet in its two-week offensive against Kurdish-led militants in Syria, a day after other rebels shot down a Russian warplane.
|
|
But it is every inch a warplane and spy tool that Congress and the Pentagon must keep top of mind when it comes to doling out the resources and technology.
|
|
And on November 24, Turkey shot down a Russian warplane that had been flying over Syria, claiming the plane had strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.
|
|
The warplane, part of the Russian Knights aerobatic team, crashed near Moscow after the team took part in the opening ceremony for a monument to aviators in Ashukino, Tass said.
|
|
Erdogan said the allegations, made at a briefing held a week after a Turkish air force jet shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian-Turkish border, amounted to slander.
|
|
A U.S. Navy craft shot down a Syrian warplane in the southern part of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's (ISIS) stronghold in Syria, the U.S. coalition confirmed Sunday.
|
|
Pakistan says it did not use F-16s in shooting down an Indian warplane when it crossed the Line of Control that acts as a de facto border in Kashmir.
|
|
Two days later, a Russian warplane intercepted an American reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea at what American officials said was an unsafe distance, prompting another protest from the Pentagon.
|
|
BEIRUT, April 5 (Reuters) - Syria's military said a Syrian warplane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in Aleppo province and that its pilot ejected, state media reported.
|
|
Paris and Berlin first unveiled plans to develop the new warplane in July, two months after President Emmanuel Macron's election win, burying past industrial rivalries to tighten defense and security.
|
|
On Friday, an LNA warplane bombed the camp of a force allied to Serraj in Zuwara, west of Tripoli toward the Tunisian border, an LNA military source and residents said.
|
|
Russia's quick gesture helped the two leaders put behind them a crisis created in November 2015 by the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey near its border with Syria.
|
|
Two days later, a Russian warplane intercepted an American reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea at what American officials said was an unsafe distance, prompting a protest from the Pentagon.
|
|
The Russian Su-25 warplane was patrolling the Idlib area when it was struck by a missile, launched from an area controlled by rebels, the ministry said in a statement.
|
|
A Russian warplane flew over a French warship at low altitude in the eastern Mediterranean this weekend, a deliberate breach of international regulations, a French naval source said on Tuesday.
|
|
The following month an unarmed Iranian drone came within 100 feet (30 meters) of a U.S. Navy warplane as it prepared to land on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf.
|
|
The SDF accused Syrian government forces of attacking its positions near the town of Tabqa in Raqqa province and the United States shot down a Syrian government warplane in June.
|
|
The warplane system is expected to be operational from 2040, with a view to replacing Dassaults Rafale and the four-nation Eurofighter, in which Airbus represents both Germany and Spain.
|
|
This came shortly after Israel said it had shot down a Syrian warplane, claiming it had breached a Golan buffer zone and warned Iranian forces backing Assad against deploying there.
|
|
Relations between Turkey, a NATO member, and Russia hit their worst in recent memory in November after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane Ankara said had violated Turkish airspace from Syria.
|
|
Last August, U.S. officials said an Iranian drone came within 100 feet (30 meters) of a U.S. Navy warplane as it prepared to land on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf.
|
|
The group, linked to the former branch of al Qaeda in Syria, claimed responsibility on Saturday for shooting down a Russian Su-25 warplane with a shoulder launched anti-aircraft missile.
|
|
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency later reported that the Israeli warplane went down near the town of Quneitra, while the drone was downed near Sa'sa', both in southern Syria.
|
|
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based organization that monitors the war, said a Syrian government or Russian warplane hit Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib province before noon.
|
|
That prompted Israel to respond by sending two surface-to-air missiles to intercept the plane, marking this as the first time since 2014 that Israel brought down a Syrian warplane.
|
|
In June a U.S. warplane shot down a Syrian army jet near Raqqa in and the SDF accused the Syrian government of bombing its positions, raising tension between Washington and Moscow.
|
|
How the warplane drama unfolded Economy A major focus of the announcement was on restoring lucrative economic and trade ties -- a move that will benefit the fragile economies of both countries.
|
|
Tensions ramped up between Israel and Iran in early February when anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli F-16 warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria.
|
|
MOSCOW, April 22 (Reuters) - A warplane that crashed in Syria near Damascus belonged to the Syrian Air Force, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a Syrian military source as saying on Friday.
|
|
Gasping for life: Syria's merciless war on its own children Last month the US shot down a Syrian warplane, prompting Russia to shut down a communication channel between the two countries.
|
|
The United States Embassy in Islamabad is looking into reports that Pakistan used U.S.-built F-85033 jets to shoot down an Indian warplane, a spokesperson for the embassy said Sunday.
|
|
The Russian leader told Erdogan he hoped that a criminal case launched against a Turkish citizen accused of killing the Russian pilot of the downed warplane would be an objective one.
|
|
Humanitarian groups and antiwar activists have also aimed criticism at the United States, a main provider of the Saudi coalition's weapons, intelligence, warplane refueling and guidance technology for missiles and bombs.
|
|
At the coalition headquarters in Riyadh, he said, American liaison officers had access to a database that detailed every airstrike: warplane, target, munitions used and a brief description of the attack.
|
|
Russians traditionally account for one of the biggest groups of foreign visitors after Germany, but they have stopped coming after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane over Syria last year, souring relations.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet warplane crashed late on Thursday during a training mission in California, killing the pilot, the Marine Corps said in a statement on Friday.
|
|
Industry executives familiar with the development of the F-35 - the world's most advanced warplane - caution that European states face a massive bill and extensive technological difficulties to develop a rival aircraft.
|
|
BAE showed off a model of the new warplane, Tempest, on Monday, linking up with a group of industrial partners to fulfill a government plan for a new combat jet by 2040.
|
|
Relations between the former Cold War rivals hit their worst level in recent memory after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane that it said had strayed into its air space from Syria.
|
|
The Syrian airforce pilot who bailed out as his warplane crashed on Turkish territory was found by a Turkish rescue team and is being treated at a hospital in the Hatay region.
|
|
The Syrian military source said militants had targeted a warplane while it was landing in Hama province, bringing it down, and calling the attack a breach of a "cessation of hostilities" agreement.
|
|
A string of procurement delays, cost overruns and technical mismatches have interfered with attempts to renew the country's naval fleet, while deadlines for selecting a new warplane fleet have repeatedly been missed.
|
|
US downs Syrian jet The US downed the Syrian warplane after a series of clashes between pro-regime troops and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which the US backs to fight ISIS.
|
|
It combines images including a U.S. military warplane, a bombing and scenes of American prosperity, including a smiling blonde girl sitting under a hair dryer reminiscent of a missile, the museum said.
|
|
On April 29, a Russian warplane came within 100 feet of an American fighter jet over the Baltic Sea and did a barrel roll over the jet, which could have been catastrophic.
|
|
Nazarbayev maintains warm ties with the Kremlin and was credited with helping to mend fences between Moscow and Ankara in 2016 after they fell out over Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane.
|
|
Its purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system comes at the same time that Turkey is purchasing the most advanced warplane in the American arsenal, which is the F-85033.
|
|
Mikoyan is best-known for engineering the MiG-29 jet fighter, a warplane that entered service in the 1980s as the Soviet counterpart to the U.S. F-15 and F-16 fighters.
|
|
The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said helicopters and a warplane had struck targets from the air, while shelling and rocket fire had continued to pound the enclave.
|
|
But it's unclear if the US played a part in Thursday's bombing by pumping gas into a coalition warplane, or if the coalition used US-made weapons to carry out the attack.
|
|
The Gloster Meteor was the first jet warplane to enter the war, and the English Electric Canberra high speed jet bomber was adapted by the American Air Force as the B-393.
|
|
The Russian Su-25 warplane was brought down in the Idlib province earlier on Saturday, and the pilot was killed during "a fight" after ejecting by parachute, the Defence Ministry has said.
|
|
Myriad theories about the causes of the crash have emerged, including pilot miscalculations of altitude and the sudden appearance in the nighttime skies of a secessionist warplane flown by a mercenary pilot.
|
|
Russia condemned today the American military's downing of a Syrian warplane and suspended the use of a military hotline that had helped the U.S. and Russia to avoid collisions in Syrian airspace.
|
|
This month alone, the United States has shot down a Syrian warplane, come close to shooting another and downed two Iranian-made drones that were nearing American-backed troops on the ground.
|
|
Human Rights Watch interviewed 32 residents of Khan Sheikhoun and reviewed available evidence, corroborating previous accounts that one bomb containing a chemical agent fell after a warplane passed over before 7 a.m.
|
|
It is also providing military advisers, intelligence and other forms of military support, which Mr. Trump this week extended in the form of warplane sales, but nothing comparable to action in Syria.
|
|
We can hardly count on impulsive, self-absorbed leaders like Trump or Kim to refrain from massive retaliation, even if confronted with a lesser provocation, such the downing of an opposition warplane.
|
|
Any move to buy a U.S. warplane could run into political resistance in Germany, which has strong labor unions, and given a big push by Europe to develop its own military equipment.
|
|
AMMAN (Reuters) - A jihadist group linked to the former branch of al Qaeda in Syria claimed responsibility for shooting down a Russian SU-25 warplane with a shoulder launched anti-aircraft missile.
|
|
An Indian Air Force pilot found himself in a dogfight last week with a warplane from the Pakistani Air Force, and ended up a prisoner behind enemy lines for a brief time.
|
|
He was speaking a day after Turkey announced the restoration of diplomatic ties with Israel and expressed regret to Russia over the downing of a warplane last year, seeking to mend strained alliances.
|
|
"By apologizing for Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane in November 2015, President Tayyip Erdogan paved the way for the resumption of economic ties and security cooperation between the two countries," Piccoli said.
|
|
On the final day of the summit in Japan, Obama and Abe will visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park near the spot where a U.S. warplane dropped an atomic bomb 71 years ago.
|
|
The US Navy recently asked four American drone-makers— Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and General Atomics—to pitch designs for what would be the world's first combat-ready, carrier-launched unmanned warplane.
|
|
People who lived near military bases kept watch; when they saw a warplane take off, they used walkie-talkies to notify other people, who would contact others, spreading the word up the chain.
|
|
France and Germany have signed a binding deal on arm exports control rules for jointly developed programmes, such as the tank and the warplane of the future, the two countries said on Wednesday.
|
|
An article in some editions on Saturday about the crash of a vintage warplane into the Hudson River misstated, in some copies, Albert J. Parisi's title at the Army Air Forces Historical Association.
|
|
A U.S. Navy aircraft shot down a Syrian warplane in the southern part of Syria in June after the U.S.-supported Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reportedly came under attack from pro-Assad forces.
|
|
France's Safran and Germany's MTU Aero Engines are expected to join forces to develop the engine for the new warplane, while French electronics firm Thales and European missile maker MBDA would also participate.
|
|
Turkey and Russia have been at loggerheads over Syria, with previously strong trade relations between the two collapsing after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane it claimed had violated its airspace in November.
|
|
BENGHAZI, Libya, May 7 (Reuters) - Forces loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar shot down a Tripoli government warplane south of the Libyan capital on Tuesday, witnesses and the Libyan National Army (LNA) said.
|
|
The report also pointed to the incident in the northern city of Kunduz in which a U.S. warplane attacked a hospital run by aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres, killing at least 42 people.
|
|
Were it the Islamic State, and not the Assad regime, responsible for keeping so many Syrians starving, the men manning the barricades might find themselves in the cross hairs of an American warplane.
|
|
Warplane maker Dassault said it had been fined 134 million euros, while radar supplier Thales said it was due to pay 64 million and engine maker Safran said it accounted for 29 million.
|
|
American Special Forces took charge of the operation to retake the city, and in the process an American warplane mistakenly bombed a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders, killing at least 42 people.
|
|
In Syria, a Turkish warplane launched a shell that fell near the northern city of Manbij, where United States troops have been training and equipping Kurdish forces that are holding the strategic city.
|
|
BEIJING — A United States Navy warplane crashed into the sea northeast of the Philippines on Monday, the second crash in less than a month involving aircraft from the carrier the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan.
|
|
The downing of the jet, which crashed on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, was only the second time during the seven-year-old Syrian war that Israel had intercepted a warplane.
|
|
CAIRO - (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthis military spokesperson, Yahya Saria, said that Houthis downed a tornado warplane belonging to "enemy forces" in Al-Jawf, the group's Al-Masirah TV cited him as saying on Friday.
|
|
BERLIN (Reuters) - An F-16 warplane belonging to the United States Air Force crashed over uninhabited territory in western Germany on Tuesday but the pilot escaped with minor injuries after ejecting, officials said.
|
|
A U.S. Navy aircraft shot down a Syrian warplane in the southern part of Syria in June after the U.S.-supported Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reportedly came under attack from pro-Assad forces.
|
|
President Vladimir Putin signed a series of punitive economic sanctions against Turkey, including a ban on charter flights, in retaliation for its shooting down of the Russian warplane near the border with Syria.
|
|
The move to develop a new warplane accelerates steps that are expected to shape the future of the European fighter industry and its three existing programs - the Eurofighter, France's Rafale and Sweden's Gripen.
|
|
Although Turkey shot down a Russian warplane on the Syrian border and Russia's ambassador to Turkey was assassinated last year, military and intelligence co-operation between the two countries has never been so close.
|
|
MOSCOW, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A Russian Su-25 warplane was brought down in Syria, and the pilot died after ejecting by parachute, the TASS news agency quoted Russia's Defence Ministry as saying on Saturday.
|
|
This story is part two of a three-part series on the innovations, and the problems, of the F-35, the newest warplane entering service in the United States and with several allied nations.
|
|
On Sunday, the Sunni terror group shot down a regime warplane involved in an anti-ISIS operation in Deir Ezzor province, killing the pilot, state-run SANA news agency reported, citing a military source.
|
|
British foreign minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that London was concerned at Iran's role after anti-aircraft fire on Saturday downed an Israeli warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions.
|
|
The US military official said the Pentagon was examining specifically whether a Russian warplane had bombed a hospital in Khan Sheikhoun five hours after the initial chemical attack, with the aim of destroying evidence.
|
|
France and Germany are expected to announce initial details about the planned new warplane development program at the ILA Berlin Air Show, which starts on Wednesday, with France's Dassault aiming to take the lead.
|
|
Moscow (CNN)A day after a US Navy fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane, Russia warned that aircraft operating where the shootdown occurred would be considered "air targets" for its forces in Syria.
|
|
A correction in this space on June 1 for an article about the crash of a vintage warplane into the Hudson River misstated Albert J. Parisi's title at the Army Air Forces Historical Association.
|
|
In the bitter battle for control, an American warplane mistakenly fired its missiles into a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing 42 people and prompting accusations that the United States had committed a war crime.
|
|
AMMAN, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A jihadist group linked to the former branch of al Qaeda in Syria claimed responsibility for shooting down a Russian SU-25 warplane with a shoulder launched anti-aircraft missile.
|
|
The base, which was built by French contractors over a decade ago, is one of the few U.S. airbases overseas where B-52 bombers, America's largest warplane, can land due to the long runways.
|
|
Roggio said that the exact circumstances leading up to the shoot-down remained unclear, but the strong response made it likely that U.S. special forces were with SDF fighters when the Syrian warplane attacked.
|
|
This story is part one of a three-part series on the innovations, and the problems, of the F-353, the newest warplane entering service in the United States and with several allied nations.
|
|
This story is part one of a three-part series on the innovations, and the problems, of the F-35, the newest warplane entering service in the United States and with several allied nations.
|
|
AMMAN (Reuters) - Russian jets intensified their raids on rebel-held towns and cities in Syria's northern Idlib province on Sunday night, a day after rebels shot down a Russian warplane and killed its pilot.
|
|
However, a former senior State Department official said that the United States had access to records of every airstrike over Yemen since the early days of the war, including the warplane and munitions used.
|
|
An earlier version of this article misstated the status of a search for an American warplane shot down in World War II. The plane has been found, not the remains of those on board.
|
|
His comments came after Turkey shot down in November a Russian warplane flying a sortie over Syria that it said had violated its airspace, triggering a diplomatic rupture in which Russia imposed economic sanctions.
|
|
Bombing by a warplane occurred on Friday near the Mellitah oil and gas plant, jointly operated by Italy's ENI and Libyan state oil firm NOC, a Libyan National Army (LNA) military source and residents said.
|
|
Washington (CNN)A Russian spy ship sits 30 miles off the coast of Connecticut, a US defense official told CNN, while an armed Russian warplane recently carried out a "mock attack" against a US ship.
|
|
MOSCOW, Dec 5 (Reuters) - A Russian Su-33 warplane crashed while landing on the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean, Russian news agencies reported on Monday citing a statement from the Russian defence ministry.
|
|
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israeli forces would press ahead with Syria operations despite their loss of the advanced warplane, the first it has lost to enemy fire in 36 years.
|
|
In early May 216, the Air Force Research Laboratories—the flying branch's Ohio-based science wing—released the first photo of a stealthy, weapons-capable robotic jet that just might become America's next major warplane.
|
|
In April Turkey's tourist arrivals saw the biggest drop in 0003 years, due to a series of bomb attacks and worsening relations with Moscow after Ankara shot down a Russian warplane over Syria last year.
|
|
To date, China's experience is largely limited to warplane engines, mostly in cooperation with or on license from Russia, but analysts say it is struggling to develop ones that will match Western fighters in combat.
|
|
In the air base incident, a second multi-million-dollar, U.S.-built warplane was damaged and two mechanics were treated for hearing loss caused by the blast, the Belgian armed forces said in a statement.
|
|
Why it matters: This would be the first time a Russian warplane has violated South Korean airspace, as South Korea's Yonhap news agency notes — though Russia later issued a denial of the claim, per AFP.
|
|
Bulgaria's government agreed the deal with the United States two weeks ago, following a long-running saga that has seen a succession of Bulgarian governments fail to make a decision on which warplane to pick.
|
|
That's the takeaway from the US military's downing of a Syrian warplane Sunday, the first time an American plane has shot down a Syrian one since the conflict there erupted more than six years ago.
|
|
TUNIS (Reuters) - A warplane belonging to eastern Libyan forces fighting the internationally recognized Tripoli government made an emergency landing in Tunisia on Monday and the pilot was detained, the self-declared eastern foreign ministry said.
|
|
NEW YORK An article in some editions on Saturday about the crash of a vintage warplane into the Hudson River misstated, in some copies, Albert J. Parisi's title at the Army Air Forces Historical Association.
|
|
NATO said Moscow's intensified bombing campaign undermined the peace efforts and warned Russia was creating tensions by violating the airspace of Syria's neighbor Turkey, a NATO member which shot down a Russian warplane in November.
|
|
The near-total collapse of Russian tourism in Turkey began last November, when Moscow slapped economic sanctions and a travel ban on Turkey, after the downing of a Russian warplane along the border with Syria.
|
|
Separately, the Pentagon said that a Russian warplane conducted what it called "an unsafe close-range intercept" of an American Navy reconnaissance plane on Wednesday that was operating in international airspace over the Black Sea.
|
|
Also noteworthy, in the year and a half that followed the air show, emphasis on stealth features for the Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System program, meant to be Europe's next-generation warplane, shifted.
|
|
The Russian-owned project, Turkey's first nuclear power plant, has been complicated by the deterioration in ties between the two countries after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane over the Turkey-Syria border in November.
|
|
The 28-year-old had a cracked skull, a ruptured spleen and a damaged liver, according to a relative, injuries caused by a bomb that dropped from a warplane flown by the Saudi-led coalition.
|
|
Separately in Syria, a U.S. warplane shot down a "pro-Syrian regime" drone in the latest clash in a potential proxy war pitting Iranian-backed militias supporting President Bashar al-Assad against U.S.-backed insurgents.
|
|
South Korea said that during Russia and China's joint air patrol in the region, the Russian warplane breached its airspace near a cluster of disputed islands, called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan.
|
|
The new warplane is intended to replace from 2040 the Rafale fighter built by France's Dassault Aviation and the Eurofighter Typhoon, built by a European consortium comprised of Airbus, Britain's BAE Systems and Italy's Leonardo.
|
|
This story is the final installment in a three-part series on the innovations and the problems of the F-2110, the newest warplane entering service in the United States and with several allied nations.
|
|
This story is the final installment in a three-part series on the innovations and the problems of the F-2135, the newest warplane entering service in the United States and with several allied nations.
|
|
The deaths occurred on the same day that a Russian warplane was shot down over Idlib, about 50 miles south of Afrin, and the pilot, who had apparently parachuted out, was killed on the ground.
|
|
The deal would provide a new source of gas for Turkey, which has scrambled to find alternatives after relations with major supplier Russia deteriorated sharply after the Turkish airforce downed a Russian warplane late last year.
|
|
For its part, Yemen's Houthi-run state news agency Saba accused the mostly Gulf Arab coalition and Yemeni government forces of violating the truce 4,000 times, saying shelling, bombing raids and warplane overflights had raised tensions.
|
|
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that shoulder-launched missiles obtained and used by rebels in Syria were a huge danger to all governments after a Russian warplane was shot down there at the weekend.
|
|
The revelation that one of the attackers was a Russian national comes at an awkward time for relations between Ankara and Moscow, strained since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border last November.
|
|
In August, an unarmed Iranian drone came within 100 feet (31 meters) of a U.S. Navy warplane as it prepared to land on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf, a U.S. official said at the time.
|
|
Babione told reporters at the Air Force Association's annual Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando that the company and its key suppliers were continuing broad-based efforts to lower the cost of the new radar-evading warplane.
|
|
About 30 gigabytes of data was stolen in the cyber attack, including details of the Joint Strike Fighter warplane and P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane, according to a presentation on the hack by a government official.
|
|
Sixty-three medical personnel were killed or wounded in 2015, most of them in a single, mistaken attack by a U.S. warplane on a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in the northern city of Kunduz in October.
|
|
On Saturday, Syrian anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria in the most serious confrontation yet between Israel and Iran-backed forces in the country.
|
|
CAIRO (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Saturday that it carried out drone attacks on warplane hangars and other military sites in Jizan airport in southern Saudi Arabia, the group's Al-Masirah TV reported.
|
|
The country's best warplane engine is the WS-10A Taihang, made by Shenyang Aeroengine Research Institute, a subsidiary of China's biggest state-owned aerospace and defence company, Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the sources said.
|
|
Since then, an F-103 jet assembled in Italy has made its inaugural flight there, but this year's appearance at RIAT will be the first by the stealthy, supersonic new warplane at an international air show.
|
|
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian fighter jet saw off a NATO warplane after it approached a plane carrying Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu over neutral waters in the Baltic Sea, the TASS news agency reported on Tuesday.
|
|
The country's best warplane engine is the WS-10A Taihang, made by Shenyang Aeroengine Research Institute, a subsidiary of China's biggest state-owned aerospace and defense company, Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the sources said.
|
|
There's one main reason for that, says Jacques: The US will refuel a coalition warplane when asked, but the US has no idea where the planes come from, where they're going, or what their missions are.
|
|
CAIRO — When a Saudi F-15 warplane takes off from King Khalid air base in southern Saudi Arabia for a bombing run over Yemen, it is not just the plane and the bombs that are American.
|
|
The Turks launched an offensive in the Afrin area against the Kurds more than a week ago — including warplane bombings — leading to protests from American officials, including Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and President Trump.
|
|
KASTANIES, Greece — Syria's official news agency said two of its warplane were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that's led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces.
|
|
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israeli forces would press ahead with Syria operations despite their loss of an advanced warplane to enemy fire for the first time in 36 years.
|
|
The Times Britain is paying hundreds of millions of pounds in hidden costs for a next-generation warplane that will be unable to function properly because of defence cuts, an investigation by The Times has revealed. bit.
|
|
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian military air defenses struck an Israeli warplane and shot down Israeli missiles targeting the T4 air base in Homs province in response to an act of "aggression" on Sunday night, Syrian state media said.
|
|
Turkey relies on Iran for natural gas imports, which have become more important in the wake of the breakdown in Ankara's relations with Russia, another important energy supplier, over Turkey's shooting down a Russian warplane in November.
|
|
The flying branch has been trying to retire its old but rugged A-10 ground-attack aircraft for years now, only to be overruled by air-power advocates in Congress who are worried about a warplane shortfall.
|
|
A warplane attacked Tripoli's only functioning airport on Monday as eastern forces advancing on the Libyan capital disregarded international appeals for a truce in the latest of a cycle of warfare since Muammar Gaddafi's fall in 2011.
|
|
A future warplane system launched this week by Paris and Berlin and a plan for a tank of the future could also be compromised if Berlin does not adapt its policies, French diplomatic and military sources warned.
|
|
Growing numbers of Lockheed Martin Corp F-35s are arriving in Europe as the world's most advanced warplane and most expensive weapons program matures following a raft of cost increases and technical challenges in its early years.
|
|
"One of our reporters lives near Omran's house and he saw a warplane launching a missile," Kattan told CNN, adding that an AMC cameramen went directly to the strike site and filmed the video of the boy.
|
|
Israel had said it shot down the Syrian warplane after it crossed into the occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, but Damascus said the jet was fired on as it took part in sorties against rebels within Syria.
|
|
U.S.-led coalition forces had already set off a fresh round of controversy Sunday, shooting down a Syrian warplane that reportedly bombed nearby Syrian Democratic Forces, who are allied with the U.S. in their fight against ISIS.
|
|
BERLIN (Reuters) - The warplane that crashed near the western German city of Trier earlier on Tuesday was an F-16 fighter jet belonging to the United States Air Force, a spokesman for the German Air Force said.
|
|
Go deeper: After an aging Indian warplane was shot down by Pakistan, New Delhi's military preparedness is receiving renewed scrutiny, particularly as the U.S. looks to strengthen its alliance with India to help keep China in check.
|
|
MOSCOW, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that shoulder-launched missiles obtained and used by rebels in Syria were a huge danger to all governments after a Russian warplane was shot down there at the weekend.
|
|
CN will restart flights to Venezuela after one of its aircraft was approached by at least one Venezuelan warplane on Friday, creating a diplomatic incident and prompting the airline to cancel flights to and from the socialist country.
|
|
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A social network account of Russia's communications minister was temporarily blocked on Sunday in a cyberattack carried out by hackers presenting themselves as a Turkish activist group and parading images of a warplane and Turkish flags.
|
|
Russia and Turkey have been at odds over Moscow's support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkey's backing of rebels opposed to him, especially since last year when Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the border.
|
|
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday that there was an acceleration in steps to smooth relations with Russia, strained since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the border with Syria last November.
|
|
A government warplane dropped sarin on the town in Idlib province, killing more than 80 civilians, the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said, in the most conclusive findings to date from investigations into that chemical weapon attack.
|
|
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia's relationship with Turkey had fully recovered after what he called a crisis caused by Ankara's shooting down of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border in 2015.
|
|
It also comes just days after a US F/A-18 shot down a regime warplane after it dropped bombs near US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighting ISIS in the area around Tabqah, Syria, in the country's north.
|
|
The US pilot proceeded to fire off a second missile, an AIM 120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, which hit its intended target, downing the Syrian warplane and forcing its pilot to eject, the officials added.
|
|
Turkish warplanes resumed strikes on Kurdish YPG militia targets in Syria's Afrin region on Friday after a five-day lull that followed the shooting down of Russian warplane elsewhere in Syria, the Hurriyet newspaper and other media reported.
|
|
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is still testing its first stealth fighter, the J-20, but the warplane will soon enter service, the air force said, after pictures circulated in Chinese media suggesting it had already joined the active fleet.
|
|
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow sees the downing of a Syrian government warplane by the United States as an "act of aggression and support of terrorists", TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Monday.
|
|
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian Su-25 warplane was brought down in Syria's Idlib province on Saturday, and the pilot was killed during "a fight" after ejecting by parachute, the TASS news agency quoted Russia's Defense Ministry as saying.
|
|
The event with the potential to most affect Turkey's tourism sector involved Russia: the shooting down by the Turkish air force of a Russian warplane involved in Moscow's operations in Syria near the Turkish border in late November.
|
|
Earlier in the day, anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria in the most serious confrontations yet between Israel and Iranian-backed forces based across the border.
|
|
Several European countries are co-operating to build their own sixth-generation "air system" (a term that reflects the fact that the warplane itself will be only one part of a larger network, which might include drone swarms).
|
|
This month, an American warplane nearly shot down a Syrian SU-22 that appeared to be maneuvering to drop bombs on American-backed Syrian fighters, but the Syrian aircraft dumped its munitions in the desert and zoomed away.
|
|
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israel said it shot down a Syrian warplane that crossed into the occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, but Damascus said the jet was fired on as it took part in sorties against rebels within Syria.
|
|
MOSCOW, Dec 24 (Reuters) - One of Russia's Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter jets crashed on Tuesday in the Far East, Russian news agencies reported, the first accident of its kind involving what is the country's most advanced warplane.
|
|
Earlier this year, Pentagon announced pricing details for its agreement with Lockheed that lowers the cost of the F-35 jets it plans to purchase through 2022 by 12.7%, which may encourage other nations to buy the warplane.
|
|
Earlier this year, Pentagon announced pricing details for its agreement with Lockheed that lowers the cost of the F-35 jets it plans to purchase through 2022 by 12.7%, which may encourage other nations to buy the warplane.
|
|
BOGOTA/CARACAS, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Colombia's Avianca airline is avoiding Venezuelan airspace after a flight from Spain was approached by at least one warplane on Friday, creating a diplomatic incident, according to flight data, an airline source and authorities.
|
|
BALMA, France (Reuters) - Vases carved out of shrapnel are displayed next to soldiers' uniforms and a warplane figurine made out of the remains of a Zeppelin: welcome to the World War One-themed home of Chantal and Serge Giudice.
|
|
" But the woman ran back into the building after the U.S. warplane had fired its weapon, Gersten said, adding that it was "very difficult for us to watch and it was within the final seconds of the actual impact.
|
|
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels shot down a Syrian government warplane over western Syria on Saturday, rebels and a military source said, although there were conflicting accounts on whether it had been brought down by a missile or anti-aircraft guns.
|
|
Rebels did, however, shoot down a Syrian government warplane over western Syria on Saturday, rebels and a military source said, although there were conflicting accounts on whether it had been brought down by a missile or anti-aircraft guns.
|
|
Airbus has also been struggling to develop the defensive systems for Europe's newest warplane and missed two crucial milestones for versions known as 1.0 and 1.5: triggering clauses that could allow nations to cancel the 20-billion-euro project.
|
|
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria on Saturday in the most serious confrontations yet between Israel and Iranian-backed forces based across the border.
|
|
In a separate incident, residents said that an unidentified warplane believed to belong to the Saudi-led coalition fired missiles at a car in the city of Azzan in Shabwa province killing at least eight suspected al Qaeda militants.
|
|
The de-confliction arrangements gained greater importance in June after a US Navy F/A-18 shot down a Syrian regime Su-22 jet after the regime warplane dropped bombs near US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces near Tabqah, Syria.
|
|
ANKARA (Reuters) - A warplane probably belonging to the Syrian air force crashed on the Turkish side of the border with Syria on Saturday and the pilots appeared to have bailed out, a local Turkish governor was quoted as saying.
|
|
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has put into combat service its new generation J-20 stealth fighter, a warplane it hopes will narrow the military gap with the United States, the Chinese air force said on Friday, making it operationally ready.
|
|
Just a few minutes later in the press conference, he began talking about how he was happy to spend "hundreds of millions" on the F-35 — a warplane that has yet to fly in a single American combat mission.
|
|
North Korea released a propaganda video this week depicting a United States aircraft carrier and a warplane being destroyed in computer-generated balls of fire, the latest salvo in an escalating war of words between the two nuclear powers.
|
|
DAMASCUS/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will face "more surprises" should it again attack Syrian territory, Damascus said on Tuesday, after Syria's air defenses shot down an advanced Israeli warplane during the fiercest flare-up between the old foes in 36 years.
|
|
Turkey&aposs relations with Russia have seen dramatic fluctuations, with ties recently warming following a long frosty period after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane taking part in the campaign to support Syrian President Bashar Assad&aposs government in 2015.
|
|
Minister Nikolai Nikiforov's Instagram account was blocked by "The Börteçine Cyber Team" hackers, according to screenshots of the account, published by Russian and Turkish media and featuring Turkish flags, a portrait of Turkey's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and a warplane.
|
|
The Associated Press noted that a Syria war monitor reported an attack including eight helicopters and a warplane from the international coalition fighting the terror organization targeted a group linked to al Qaeda, Hurras al-Deen, in Idlib Province on Saturday.
|
|
The move to develop a new warplane is seen as a preliminary step toward overcoming differences that have left Europe struggling to maintain three competing fighter programs - France's Rafale, the Eurofighter - representing Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain - and Sweden's Gripen.
|
|
Yildirim added that Ankara would support U.N. efforts towards a resolution in the divided island of Cyprus, and work to boost ties with Iran and mend relations with Moscow, deeply strained since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane last November.
|
|
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A warplane on Friday bombed the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun, where a chemical attack killed scores of people this week and prompted U.S. missile strikes, a witness in the rebel-held area and a war monitoring group said.
|
|
Turkey is dependent on Russia for more than half of its natural gas imports but the two countries have been at loggerheads since November when Ankara downed a Russian warplane along the Turkey-Syria border saying it violated its air space.
|
|
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian air force mechanic servicing a warplane at a base in the south of the country opened fire and destroyed another F-16 jet fighter on the tarmac, public broadcaster VRT said on Friday, citing unidentified sources.
|
|
Hong Kong (CNN)Search efforts may be closing in on the wreckage of a Japanese F-353 stealth fighter that crashed into the Pacific Ocean two weeks ago, perplexing investigators and raising questions about the reliability of world's most-advanced warplane.
|
|
BAE showed off a model of the new warplane, Tempest, on Monday, linking up with a group of industrial partners to fulfil a government plan for the new combat jet which it said would need international partners to help develop.
|
|
The move to develop a new warplane is seen as a preliminary step towards overcoming differences that have left Europe struggling to maintain three competing fighter programs - France's Rafale, Sweden's Gripen and the Eurofighter, involving Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain.
|
|
For example, the Pentagon is looking at whether a Russian warplane dropped the bomb that hit the hospital, and whether the purpose of the strike was to destroy evidence of the chemical attack, a senior US defense official said Friday.
|
|
Any move by Germany to buy a U.S. warplane could run into political resistance from strong labour unions and Airbus, which has also raised concerns about the ministry's plans to choose between two U.S. helicopters for its heavy lift programme.
|
|
MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - Moscow sees the downing of a Syrian government warplane by the United States as an "act of aggression and support of terrorists", TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Monday.
|
|
The new stealthy warplane wowed crowds at two UK air shows over the past week, showing off its capabilities in what U.S. officials say is part of a larger drive to boost NATO's defenses and counter growing threats around the world.
|
|
Anadolu Efes has suffered in Turkey from rising taxes and regulation on alcohol, and in Russia - one of its biggest markets - from a diplomatic and trade row since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border last year.
|
|
JERUSALEM, July 24 (Reuters) - A Syrian warplane shot down by Israel over the Golan Heights on Tuesday was in "gross violation" of a 1974 U.N.-monitored demilitarisation deal on the strategic plateau, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
|
|
The move to develop a new warplane is seen as a preliminary step towards overcoming differences that have left Europe struggling to maintain three competing fighter programmes - France's Rafale, the Eurofighter - representing Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain - and Sweden's Gripen.
|
|
The Syrian state news agency SANA said the warplane had been hit by an anti-aircraft missile fired by militants while on a mission "to destroy headquarters of the Nusra Front", a jihadist group now known as Tahrir al-Sham.
|
|
Barring that decision, he said, the program would have seen a $22 billion drop in operations and maintenance costs, with annual Navy and Air Force costs down between 2 to 4 percent due to the increasing maturity of the new warplane.
|
|
Researchers retraced the steps of a false report — one claiming that a Russian warplane took out the communications systems of an American warship — showing that even with all the global attention, fake news can still circulate with alarming speed and ease.
|
|
An earlier version of this article misstated the status of a search for an American warplane shot down in World War II. The wreckage of the plane has been found, not the remains of a soldier who was on board.
|
|
Danish Father and Son Team Up on Homework and Turn In a German Warplane A homework assignment on World War II, and a father's jokey suggestion, led to the discovery of a fighter plane thought to have crashed in 1944.
|
|
Turkey has been involved with the F-35 development for a long time, but its acquisition of the warplane has been opposed by some members of Congress amid the deteriorating relationship between Washington and Ankara over a range of issues.
|
|
The phone call was arranged after Erdogan expressed regret in a letter to Putin on Monday over Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane last year, although the Kremlin later sought to dampen Turkey's hopes for a swift restoration of normal relations.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Russia have increased communication to avoid warplane accidents in the skies over Syria as Islamic State militants lose territory and the air space becomes more crowded, a top U.S. Air Force official said on Wednesday.
|
|
In an updated statement on the Rann bombing that contained the new death toll, Doctors Without Borders said a single warplane had circled the encampment twice and dropped two bombs into the middle, just as an aid distribution was taking place.
|
|
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A warplane attacked Tripoli's only functioning airport on Monday as eastern forces advancing on the Libyan capital disregarded international appeals for a truce in the latest of a cycle of warfare since Muammar Gaddafi's fall in 2011.
|
|
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The downing of a Syrian government warplane by the United States is a step toward a dangerous escalation, and Moscow is warning Washington not to use force against Syrian government troops, a senior Russian diplomat told Interfax news agency on Monday.
|
|
AMMAN, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said on Saturday they had brought down a Russian warplane in an area of northern Syria that has seen heavy air strikes, and two rebel sources said they had captured the pilot who was badly injured.
|
|
This comes after the US shot down a Syrian warplane on Sunday night, prompting Russia, a close ally of both Iran and the Syrian regime, to announce that it will regard any US planes in proximity of its allies as potential hostile actors.
|
|
Berlin (Reuters) - Rows between France and Germany over the common arms export licensing rules they are trying to develop are likely to delay until after the Paris Air Show the concrete launch of a joint Franco-German warplane program, an Airbus official said.
|
|
The chairman of the Denizli Colossae Thermal, one of Turkey's most popular spa hotels, said a number of hotels in resort towns were left on the brink of bankruptcy after Russia imposed sanctions against Turkey after the latter downed the Russian warplane.
|
|
He said he expected a joint study on a combat drone with Britain to lead to the launch of a demonstrator before the end of the year, without any disruption from a new Franco-German study aimed at developing a joint warplane.
|
|
The ship appeared to have set off on its eighth sea trial on Tuesday after photographs taken by a plane flying over a restricted area showed a carrier, with a warplane on deck, leaving the Dalian Shipyard, where the carrier is being built.
|
|
Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, said he appreciated Lockheed Martin Corp for being so responsive to his concerns about the high cost of the high tech warplane and added that the company was doing a great job on the program.
|
|
China has released video of a flight of seven Chengdu J-20 stealth fighters, the largest formation seen so far, suggesting that the fifth-generation warplane has gone into production as an arms race with the United States mounts in the region.
|
|
Russia and Turkey have been on opposite sides of the Syrian conflict, and the two leaders had been at each other's throats since November, when Turkey shot down a Russian warplane that it said had violated its airspace on the Syrian border.
|
|
Dirk Hoke, head of Airbus Defence and Space, told Reuters an agreement was imperative before the two countries could move ahead on the new warplane, or sign a contract as expected by year's end for joint work on a new European drone.
|
|
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will unveil its new generation J-20 stealth fighter jet at an air show next week, the air force said on Friday, the first public showing of a warplane China hopes will narrow the military gap with the United States.
|
|
The results were deadly: Thirty-seven American sailors aboard a Navy frigate died when it came under attack by an Iraqi warplane, and 6553 people on an Iranian commercial airliner were killed when it was attacked by an American guided missile cruiser.
|
|
WASHINGTON — Long-running tensions between the United States and Russia erupted publicly on Monday as Moscow condemned the American military's downing of a Syrian warplane and threatened to target aircraft flown by the United States and its allies west of the Euphrates.
|
|
That has manifested itself in a series of encounters this month in which the United States shot down a Syrian warplane, came close to shooting down another and downed two Iranian-made drones that were nearing American-backed troops on the ground.
|
|
American officials said the downed aircraft was a Shahed 129, the same type of drone that an American warplane blasted on June 8 after the drone dropped a bomb near American-supported Syrian fighters and their coalition advisers at the same location.
|
|
But, this definitely appears to be more in line with Russia's growing anti-Turkish sentiment following an incident which saw the Turkish military shoot down a Russian warplane after it had allegedly invaded their airspace during the height of foreign intervention in Syria.
|
|
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey and Russia signed an agreement on Monday for the construction of a major undersea gas pipeline and vowed to seek common ground on the war in Syria, accelerating a normalization in ties nearly a year after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane.
|
|
Fighters from al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra, shot down a Syrian warplane and captured its pilot on Tuesday in an area south of Aleppo where insurgents are battling the Syrian army and allied militias, a monitoring group said.
|
|
It may also look to Boeing, which lost out to Lockheed Martin on the U.S. F-35 warplane contract in 2001, and has since teamed up with Saab and Brazil's Embraer , said Richard Aboulafia, vice president at Teal Group, a defense and aerospace analysis group.
|
|
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The pilot of a Syrian warplane which Israel said on Tuesday it had shot down was killed, and the plane crashed in Islamic State-held Syrian territory near the Israeli-occupied Golan heights, a non-Syrian source close to Damascus told Reuters.
|
|
ISLAMABAD, March 3 (Reuters) - The United States is "seeking information" on whether Pakistan used U.S.-built F-16 jets to down an Indian warplane, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad said on Sunday, which may violate the F-16 sale agreements between Washington and Pakistan.
|
|
Beyond Boeing and Lockheed, other potential partners include the Eurofighter consortium - a European joint venture between Airbus Group, BAE Systems PLC and Leonardo Finmeccanica SpA that produces the Typhoon fighter jet - and Sweden's Saab AB, which recently unveiled the latest variant of its Gripen warplane.
|
|
The March 2900 incident — one of the deadliest civilian casualty events since the beginning of the Iraq War in 220006 — occurred when a U.S. military warplane dropped a GBU-2202 precision-guided missile on two ISIS snipers firing on Iraqi forces, Air Force Brig. Gen.
|
|
Relations between the two countries have been strained in recent years and Russia imposed trade restrictions on Turkish goods after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane in November 2015, but Moscow lifted most restrictions as the two countries restored ties in August last year.
|
|
South Korea and Japan scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian military planes that they said flew over an island in the Sea of Japan claimed by both of the US allies, with South Korea firing flares and over 300 warning shots at a Russian warplane.
|
|
The aerial clash on June 8, 2017 was the first time that an American warplane had engaged an armed enemy drone in the sky—and could be a preview of dangers to come as more and more rogue states acquire cheap, sophisticated, armed robotic aircraft.
|
|
The March 2628 incident -- one of the deadliest civilian casualty events since the beginning of the Iraq War in 28503 -- occurred when a U.S. military warplane dropped a GBU-22019 precision-guided missile on two ISIS snipers firing on Iraqi forces, Air Force Brig. Gen.
|
|
HAVELOCK, N.C. — They met here at the Cherry Point Marine airfield two decades ago, the start of a friendship that would be forged over hundreds of hours in the cockpit of an EA-6B Prowler warplane over the Middle East, jamming enemy radar systems.
|
|
After a tense falling out in 2015, when Turkish jets shot down a Russian warplane on Turkey's border with Syria, Mr. Erdogan sought to improve relations with Russia, sending two letters to Mr. Putin and then traveling to Moscow for a meeting in June 2016.
|
|
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that a warplane of the Syrian government forces had been shot down in the course of a Turkish-led military offensive launched in northwest Syria to push back the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.
|
|
Last week, after the United States downed a Syrian warplane that had dropped bombs near American-supported fighters battling the Islamic State, Russia's Defense Ministry threatened to target any aircraft flown by the United States or its allies west of the Euphrates River valley.
|
|
The Americans wanted to send a specific signal by striking only the airfield that a Syrian Su-22 warplane had used for its mission on Tuesday to drop a chemical bomb in the middle of the town of Khan Sheikhoun, in southern Idlib Province.
|
|
Trump has sacrificed the goodwill he garnered from Sunni-dominated Middle Eastern governments when he executed strikes on Assad's assets and, as recently as June, the U.S. downed a Syrian warplane for attacking anti-ISIS rebels laying siege to the Islamic State capital of Raqqa.
|
|
In 2013, Italy's highest court ruled that the government had to compensate the families of some of the victims, implicitly acknowledging the most widely accepted theory behind the crash: that a missile fired by a warplane had hit the twin-engine McDonnell Douglas DC-9.
|
|
Song said that China&aposs approach to J-20 research and development was to build a small number of each block while continually improving technologies for the following block, as its priority was to gradually improve and then optimise the configuration of the warplane.
|
|
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has put into service its new generation J-20 stealth fighter, a warplane it hopes will narrow the military gap with the United States, as senior naval officers said the country was building a "first class" navy and developing a marine corps.
|
|
Britain's unveiling last July of its plans for a next-generation aircraft to rival the United States' F35, the world's most advanced warplane, laid bare European divisions and deepening scepticism about the future of European defense cooperation as Britain negotiates its exit from the European Union.
|
|
Turkey's relationship with Moscow deteriorated after a Russian warplane was shot down when it entered into Turkish airspace; there was a failed coup last July to bring down President Erdogan; as well as "an acceleration in the intensity of terror acts" on Turkish soil, Mitov said.
|
|
ISTANBUL/MOSCOW/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Turkey announced the restoration of diplomatic ties with Israel on Monday after a six-year rupture and expressed regret to Russia over the downing of a warplane, seeking to mend strained alliances and ease a sense of isolation on the world stage.
|
|
The multi-sided conflict is also raging elsewhere, with Turkey waging an offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces in the Afrin region of northwestern Syria, while on Saturday, Syrian government anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria.
|
|
Britain's unveiling last July of its plans for a next-generation aircraft to rival the United States' F35, the world's most advanced warplane, laid bare European divisions and deepening scepticism about the future of European defence cooperation as Britain negotiates its exit from the European Union.
|
|
IDF: Syrian claim to have shot down Israeli warplane, drone is 'total lies' Ceasefire coincides with Muslim holiday The peace appeared to be holding Tuesday, with no major violence reported on the first full day of a hard-won ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia.
|
|
The coup attempt raised particular questions about the air force, some of whose senior members were deeply involved, and could lead to the re-investigation of past incidents including the downing by the Turkish military of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border last year, Albayrak said.
|
|
The statement followed after a U.S. warplane shot down a Syrian army jet on Sunday in the southern Raqqa countryside, with Washington saying the jet had dropped bombs near U.S.-backed forces and Damascus saying the plane was downed while flying a mission against Islamic State militants.
|
|
Next month, a group of senior officials from the United States and seven other F-35 operator countries - Norway, Denmark, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Britain and the Netherlands - will meet to compare notes on the new warplane, which was first used in combat by Israel in May.
|
|
Kadiza is believed to have been in a residential building in Raqqa, the Islamic State's de facto capital in northeast Syria, when it was hit in May by a bomb thought to have been dropped by a Russian warplane, ITV said in an article on its website.
|
|
In a letter to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Monday, the same day Turkey announced a rapprochement with Israel, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed regret about the November episode, in which Turkish forces shot down a Russian warplane that Turkey said had violated its airspace.
|
|
Shanahan, who's been in his role since January, is the subject of an ethics investigation by the Pentagon's internal watchdog for allegedly favoring Boeing's warplane — a top defense contractor he worked at for 30 years — over Lockheed Martin's while serving as the deputy secretary of defense.
|
|
FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Britain will invest 2 billion pounds ($2.7 billion) to 2025 to develop a fighter jet called Tempest that could be used with pilots or as a drone, its defence minister said on Monday, unveiling a life-sized model of the new stealthy warplane.
|
|
Despite its history of massacring innocent civilians in the war with the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, detaining innocent citizens and raping women and girls fleeing war-torn communities, the Nigerian military has been the recipient of warplane sales and other gear from the United States.
|
|
WASHINGTON — An American fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane on Sunday after it dropped bombs near local ground forces supported by the United States, the first time the American military has downed a Syrian aircraft since the start of the civil war in 2011, officials said.
|
|
Netanyahu, whose relationship with Trump has been among the closest of any world leader, has also cautioned that Israel could act against Iran itself after an Iranian drone flew into Israel last month and an Israeli warplane was shot down while bombing air defenses in Syria.
|
|
ISLAMABAD/SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - The United States said on Sunday it was trying to find out if Pakistan used U.S.-built F-16 jets to down an Indian warplane, potentially in violation of U.S. agreements, as the stand-off between the nuclear-armed Asian neighbors appeared to be easing.
|
|
The ministry plans to give priority to the European warplane to retain aircraft expertise in Europe and continue use of a proven system, but it has also asked for information about Lockheed's F-35 fighter jet and the F-15E and F/A-18E/F jets built by Boeing.
|
|
Turkey's planned purchase of the Russian-made S-400 missile defense system has raised concerns in the West, since it could be used to give Moscow deep insight into the vulnerabilities of the most advanced U.S. warplane at a time of tension between the two powers, experts have said.
|
|
The July 11-17 event, which alternates with the Paris Airshow as the industry's premier showcase, will see new jets displayed including the world's most expensive warplane, the Lockheed Martin F-35, but is not expected to produce the flood of civil jetliner orders seen in previous years.
|
|
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 16 (Reuters) - Britain will invest 2 billion pounds ($2.7 billion) to 2025 to develop a fighter jet called Tempest that could be used with pilots or as a drone, its defence minister said on Monday, unveiling a life-sized model of the new stealthy warplane.
|
|
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said on Tuesday that Syrian forces had fired two surface-to-air missiles after Israeli aircraft targeted artillery positions in the Syrian Golan Heights overnight, but it categorically denied a claim by the Syrians that they had shot down an Israeli warplane and a drone.
|
|
Lavrov made his remarks after a U.S. warplane shot down a Syrian army jet on Sunday in the southern Raqqa countryside, with Washington saying the jet had dropped bombs near U.S.-backed forces and Damascus saying the plane was downed while flying a mission against Islamic State militants.
|
|
Moscow's heated response capped off a weekend of chaos, where the unprecedented downing of the Syrian warplane — the Pentagon said it had dropped bombs near forces allied with the U.S. — was further complicated by Iran, which over the weekend targeted ISIS by launching its first missile strikes into Syria.
|
|
While relations were already strained, the nerve agent attack in Salisbury has frayed tempers so severely that mistrust between Moscow and the West has now spiked to a level not seen since a Soviet warplane shot down a Korean Airlines passenger jet from New York to Seoul in 1983.
|
|
Keir Giles, a Russia expert at Chatham House, told VICE News that Russia's "fairly measured and sober response so far" – in stark contrast to its bellicose reaction over the warplane incident – could be because Russia is now in a much stronger position in terms of its foreign policy goals in Syria.
|
|
It was the first time warplanes from Turkey have struck in Syria since November, when Turkey downed a Russian warplane near the border, and the first significant incursion by Turkish special forces since a brief operation to relocate the tomb of Suleyman Shah, a revered Ottoman figure, in February 2015.
|
|
Basically, if someone saw, for example, a Russian-built MIG-28 Syrian warplane take off from Hama air base, then entered that information into the system—now called Sentry—it would issue a warning via social media with predictions about when an attack could be expected to hit a targeted area.
|
|
Now tensions are high following air and artillery strikes on Thursday on Turkish forces that have plunged relations between Moscow, the Syrian government's main backer, and Ankara into a crisis even deeper than a 2015 rupture precipitated by Turkey's shooting down of a Russian warplane near the Turkish-Syrian border.
|
|
Though Pentagon officials at first denied any knowledge of the incident, it soon emerged that the plane had been targeted by the USS Vincennes, a cruiser that had been involved in a skirmish with Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf and had mistaken the passenger jet for an Iranian warplane.
|
|
The American F/A-18 shot down the Syrian government warplane south of the town of Tabqah, on the same day that Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps launched several midrange missiles from inside Iran at targets in Syria, hoping to punish Islamic State forces responsible for last week's terrorist attacks in Tehran.
|
|
The risk is that better off tourists such as Germans will choose to take their holidays elsewhere while Russians, Turkish tourism's number two market, will be forced to stay away due to an economic crisis at home and political tensions following Turkey's shooting down of a Russian warplane in November.
|
|
What began as a good-natured attempt by a man to make history come alive for his son turned into headline-grabbing news this week when Daniel, aided by Mr. Kristiansen, discovered the wreckage of a German warplane, along with the remains of a man who might have been its pilot.
|
|
"Russia recently said they do not consider Hezbollah a terrorist group and there are unconfirmed reports that Hezbollah militants participated in the search and rescue of the downed Russian Su-24 pilots," Zilberman said, referring to the pilots who had manned the Russian warplane shot down by Turkey in November.
|
|
Turkey has more recently appeared to accept a transitional role for Assad as it adjusts to the realities on the ground and tries to rebuild ties with Moscow, shattered after it shot down a Russian warplane in 2015, sparking a diplomatic row which cost it billions of dollars in lost trade and tourism.
|
|
In a meeting on Tuesday at the Konstantin palace, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Erdogan discussed restoring economic ties between the two countries, which were significantly reduced after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane on the Syrian border last November, killing a crew member and a serviceman who attempted to rescue him.
|
|
Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey and Italy - key NATO allies of Germany - are already buying the F-35 fighter jet to replace their current aircraft, and other European countries such as Switzerland, Belgium and Finland are also looking at purchasing the fifth-generation warplane at time when tensions with Russia are running high.
|
|
And every time the US hits a Syrian target, there's always a risk that something goes wrong: A US warplane is shot down; the US accidentally hits a civilian target or accidentally kills a Russian or Iranian-backed fighter — prompting one or both of those countries to retaliate against the United States.
|
|
The two companies agreed in principle in April to work together on an ambitious Franco-German program to design a new warplane, but are anxious to get some early funding so they can start work on new technologies required for the multi-billion project - with a goal of fielding a new aircraft around 2040.
|
|
In his latest embrace of Europe's nationalist surge, Mr. Trump stood side by side with President Andrzej Duda and their wives on the South Lawn of the White House staring into the sky and waving as the Marine warplane roared overhead, buzzed around the Washington Monument and then headed back for a second pass.
|
|
Under orders issued after the USS Stark was hit by missiles a year earlier, essentially designed to err on the side of protecting US lives -- and with just minutes to decide if his vessel was within range of missiles carried by an Iranian warplane -- the captain of the Vincennes gave the order to fire.
|
|
The deconfliction arrangement -- first established with Russia in 2015 to avoid mid-air collisions in Syria as both sides fight militant groups -- was broken after a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet on Sunday shot down a Syrian warplane in the southern part of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's (ISIS) stronghold in Syria.
|
|
The deconfliction arrangement — first established with Russia in 2015 to avoid mid-air collisions in Syria as both sides fight militant groups — was broken after a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet on Sunday shot down a Syrian warplane in the southern part of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's (ISIS) stronghold in Syria.
|
|
Related: Here's What the US and Its Allies Can Do With Their New F-35s This inquiry is likely the first step in what promises to be a protracted competition to choose a warplane to replace the current fleet of 79 CF-188 Hornets, a version of the American F-18, that Canada bought in the 1980s.
|
|
The subway system has ads from defense contractors boasting about their new warplane in between ads for a new salad at Panera; there's often an important person's motorcade blocking your route home; and you might end up eating dinner one table over from Stephen Miller and be forced, by all standards of moral decency, to call him a prick before you leave.
|
|
As of noon, the President had tweeted just once Monday — a jam-packed post that did not mention several important issues: seven US sailors killed after their ship's collision with a merchant vessel off Japan's Izu Peninsula, another seven service members wounded in Afghanistan, news of a US Navy jet's downing of a Syrian warplane and a deadly attack on Muslim worshippers on the streets of London.
|
|
But that narrative is increasingly being called into question as evidence grows that nearly 180 people may have lost their lives as a result of Iran's decision to aggressively retaliate against the US. Based on the New York Times video and other reports, it looks like the Islamic Republic's air defenses near Tehran were on high alert and mistook the commercial jet for an American warplane.
|
|