Arne Bänschdpa(TNS) Tehran — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were among the nine people who died when their helicopter crashed in the country’s mountainous north-west during bad weather, state media reported on Monday. The Iranian Cabinet convened a second emergency meeting in less than 24 hours following the confirmation of... Read more

Thomas GnauDayton Daily News, Ohio(TNS) Apr. 29—Aviation mainteance, repair and overhaul company Sierra Nevada has won an Air Force contract that will create work at Dayton International Airport and Beavercreek. Sierra Nevada Corp., based in Englewood, Colo., was awarded a $13,080,890,647 cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price incentive (firm-target), and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC), the Department of Defense recently said.... Read more

Aliaksandr Kudrytski and Volodymyr VerbianyiBloomberg News(TNS) Ukraine said it shot down a Russian strategic bomber in combat for the first time since the Kremlin’s invasion began after the aircraft launched a missile strike that left at least nine people dead in the central Dnipro region. The Tu-22M3 was downed... Read more

Thomas GnauDayton Daily News, Ohio(TNS) Apr. 5—Members of Congress are directing Air Force leaders to offer more details on a plan to position the service to better compete with China, eying possible impacts on military installations and local jobs. In the recent appropriations package Congress passed, and President Biden signed into law, an amendment expands the oversight role... Read more

Marissa Newman, Galit AltsteinBloomberg News(TNS) Navigational signals were scrambled over the Tel Aviv metropolitan area on Thursday as Israel braced for a potential Iranian attack on the country’s economic center. Traffic was delayed, food delivery was disrupted and transportation applications showed Tel Aviv residents to be in Beirut, Lebanon.... Read more

Adnkronos International, Rome(TNS) Tension remains high in the Taiwan Strait. The Ministry of Defense of Taipei reports the presence of six Chinese military ships in the waters around the island and a record of 36 Chinese fighters entering Taiwan’s airspace within 24 hours, a space that is de facto independent but which Beijing considers a “rebel... Read more

A Russian military transport aircraft carrying eight crew and seven passengers has come down in the Ivanovo region north-east of Moscow, in the second such incident this year, the Defence Ministry reported.

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Update: It has been less than a year since the United States began training pilots from Ukraine to fly F-16 fighter jets but for the first time, an image of a Ukrainian pilot and an F-16 with Ukrainian Air Force markings has been revealed. It is not clear where... Read more

Update: A Pentagon official has stated the cause of the Osprey aircraft crash in Japan that took the lives of eight service members has been determined. The official stated the cause was a mechanical failure but declined to say what the failure was, according to the Associated Press. The... Read more