British fighter jets and a warship have deployed to the Arctic Circle amid concerns Russia is exploiting new shipping lanes that are emerging as the ice caps melt. Two RAF Typhoons and the Type 23 frigate HMS Sutherland were sent to the ‘High North’ to assert freedom of navigation rights. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said … Read more
The Pentagon has released new video of a Russian Su-27 fighter jet veering directly into the path of an American B-52 bomber in what US officials decried as an ‘unsafe and unprofessional’ intercept. The B-52 was conducting ‘routine operations’ over the Black Sea on Friday morning when two Russian Su-27s crossed within 100ft of its … Read more
NASA telescopes have spotted a galaxy ‘far, far, away’ — 500 million light-years, to be precise — that is the spitting image of a TIE fighter from Star Wars. In the long-running space opera, these agile spacecraft named in-universe for their ‘Twin Ion Engines’ are flown by Darth Vader and the forces of the Galactic … Read more
Britain could buy only half of its target of F-35 Lightning II fighter jets and spend the extra cash on a futuristic plane that will control a swarm of drones. Plans for 138 jets could be scrapped but the UK has agreed to buy 48 by the end of 2025 as part of a £9.1billion … Read more
Israeli and German fighter jets will today honour Holocaust victims with a symbolic flyover of Dachau concentration camp to mark the countries’ fight against anti-Semitism. Israeli F-16s and Eurofighter jets of the German Luftwaffe will also overfly the nearby Fuerstenfeldbruck airbase to commemorate the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics that left 11 Israelis dead. … Read more
New MI6 boss Richard Moore’s grandad was IRA fighter who won medal for fighting against British rule Richard Moore’s grandfather was an IRA fighter between 1916 and 1922 Jack Buckley won a medal from Sinn Fein for fighting against the British rule Mr Moore, 57, is set to take over as head of the Secret … Read more
An Mixed Martial Arts fighter nicknamed The Nightmare was been stabbed to death at his 30th birthday party. Police today named Jahreau Shepherd, 30, as the man found dead in Kennington, south London, just after 10pm on Saturday. Police and paramedics tried to stop him bleeding to death, but he was pronounced dead at the … Read more
Horrifying moment UFC fighter Mike Perry is caught on video punching an elderly man outside a restaurant in Texas after ‘striking two people in the eatery’ UFC fighter, Mike Perry, 28, was caught on video punching elderly man in Texas The incident occurred at Table 82 in Lubbock, Texas, around 10.30pm Tuesday In video, Perry … Read more
Pictured: Recently married pilot who died when US Air Force F-15C fighter jet crashed in the North Sea 74 miles off the Yorkshire coast as wife pays tribute to her ‘absolute best friend’ By Jack Elsom For Mailonline Published: 10:25 BST, 16 June 2020 | Updated: 10:41 BST, 16 June 2020 A US fighter pilot … Read more
The wreckage of an RAF fighter plane that tumbled from 500ft with engine failure during the Second World War has been discovered on the British beach where it crash-landed 76 years ago. Dog walkers at Cleethorpes, Grimsby, were stunned to stumble across the seaweed-matted remains of the Bristol Beaufighter, which was dredged up by moving … Read more