Category: War Stories & Memories

Airbus Helicopters has signed an order for six H135 military training helicopters from the Royal Thai Air Force 0

Royal Thai Air Force joins H135 military training operators

New order of six H135s will increase its Airbus fleet to 18 helicopters Airbus Helicopters has signed an order for six H135 military training helicopters from the Royal Thai Air Force (Photo by Airbus,...

US’ Afghanistan Disaster Caused by Dodging Vietnam War Lessons, 0

US’ Afghanistan Disaster Caused by Dodging Vietnam War Lessons, Seeking Only Public Opinion Cures

The Afghanistan Papers have revealed the US never learned the lessons of its loss in Vietnam, with US leaders seeking only how to turn around public opinion, a historian told Sputnik Friday. Indeed, the...

First flight for Iran’s Kowsar-88 Yasin 0

First flight for Iran’s Kowsar-88 Yasin

IRAN HAS flown a prototype of the Iran Aviation Industries Organization’s (IAIO’s) Kowsar-88 advanced jet trainer, now renamed the Yasin. The Yasin jet trainer, formerly known as the Kowsar-88, during its maiden flight from...

Special Forces Cessna 172RG Cutlass for Lithuanian Air Force 0

Special Forces Cessna 172RG Cutlass for Lithuanian Air Force

Cessna 172RG Cutlass RG II ‘77 Blue’ is a recent addition to the Karin e? s oro paj e? gos (KOP, Lithuanian Air Force) order of battle. Lithuanian Air Force Cessna 172RG Cutlass RG...

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Close call: Russian Air Force bombs jihadist forces near Turkish military post

The Russian Air Force unleashed a new round of airstrikes over the northwestern countryside of the Hama Governorate this evening, targeting the positions of the jihadist and Turkish-backed rebels. According to a military source...

The U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) 0

Iran’s Guards commander says U.S. military presence in Gulf is ‘an opportunity’: ISNA

The United States’ military presence in the Gulf used to be a serious threat but now it is an opportunity, a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday, according to the Iranian...

US Navy Military Sealift Command’s hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) 0

As Venezuela tensions mount, US to deploy hospital ship to region

As tensions with Venezuela mount, the United States is planning to announce on Tuesday the deployment of a military hospital ship to the region, U.S. officials say, in the latest sign of the Pentagon’s...

More Salvadoran MD500E Guardiancillos arrive for MINUSMA mission 0

More Salvadoran MD500E Guardiancillos arrive for MINUSMA mission

Additional MD500E Guardiancillo light attack helicopters of the Fuérza Aérea Salvadoreña (FAS, El Salvador Air Force) have arrived in Gao, Mali, for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). They were...

Colombian Air Patrol aircraft MXP-740 crashed 0

Colombian Air Patrol aircraft MXP-740 crashed

Patrulla Aérea Colombiana/Seccional Antioquia AeroAndina MXP-740 Savannah HJ-111 crashed while attempting an emergency landing on December 12. (Photo by AirForces Monthly) Both occupants were killed and this Colombian Air Patrol aircraft destroyed when the...