In late December, a Russian military bomber engineer sought asylum on the US southwestern border and offered to reveal some of Russia's best-kept military secrets, Yahoo reported. The man and his family arrived in an armored SUV and asked for permission to enter…
The US Air Force sent two F-16 fighter jets to intercept a pair of Russian bombers that flew near Alaska on October 17, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a statement, Yahoo reported. Although the two Russian Tu-95 Bear-H bombers did not enter US sovereign airspace…
The US Air Force (AF) has deployed six of its B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. Local edition Gloucestershire Live reports this without specifying sources of information, RBC writes. Arriving there this week from six to ...
“We condemn this behavior. It is irresponsible. It's provocative. It's dangerous, ”Kerry said in an interview with Spanish CNN and the Miami Herald. "And in accordance with the rules for the use of armed force, the planes could be shot down." “People should understand that ...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov said that Turkey should pay compensation to Moscow for the downed Su-24 military aircraft, and not insist on the legality of its actions. The Russian front-line bomber Su-24 was shot down by Turkish fighters in late November. The incident led to ...
The Russian Foreign Ministry, in a special statement on Thursday, recommended that Russians who are in Turkey for personal purposes leave this country. In addition, the department proposed to refrain from visiting the Republic of Turkey. This was followed by the recommendation of the Federal Tourism Agency to suspend the sale of tours in the Turkish direction, which is why the leading Russian ...
The American edition of The New York Times compared the versions of the incident voiced by Turkey and Russia with the downed Russian Su-24 bomber. “Turkey and Russia have offered conflicting accounts of events that led to the forced landing of a Russian warplane on Tuesday. Turkey says the plane violated ...
The Su-24M plane crashed in the Khabarovsk Territory, both pilots were killed. The ministry stressed that the plane fell in a deserted area, there is no destruction on the ground. Meanwhile, it is reported that the bomber flew with full ammunition. The department noted that the flights of the Su-24M were suspended pending clarification of the reasons ...
Two Russian strategic Tu-95 bombers invaded the US air defense identification zone over Alaska. This is reported by The Washington Free Beacon with reference to representatives of the Pentagon. The incident took place on April 22. American fighters did not take to the air to intercept bombers. Identification ...
Two Russian bombers, flying with their transponders turned off, making them invisible to detection devices, sank so low over the coast of Ireland that Dublin airport controllers were forced to postpone the departure of one passenger plane and ordered another to change course to avoid collision with ...