Two US fighter jets narrowly missed a pair of gliders and had to take emergency action to avoid a mid-air collision over the English countryside, a report has revealed. The two F15s switched on ‘maximum afterburners’ and made an ‘aggressive climb’ to steer clear of the unidentified gliders which suddenly appeared 1,000ft ahead of them. … Read more
You messed with the WRONG woman! 4ft 11in female MMA fighter leaves ‘thief’ with bloodied face after ‘he tried to steal her phone’ in Argentina Brisa, the 20-year old MMA fighter, fought off the alleged thief in Mar del Plata The suspect allegedly grabbed her phone and ran off as she was leaving work She … Read more
The virtual top guns: New fighter jets will be flown by on-board computer if RAF pilot gets stressed The new BAE Tempest can be flown by a pilot or by a computer ‘co-pilot’ The high-tech jet is due to be in service by 2035 following a £2bn investment According to BAE, the operator could become … Read more
The UK’s futuristic new fighter jet programme could support 20,000 jobs and add £25billion to the economy, according to initial estimates by auditors. The Tempest project would preserve Britain’s prestigious aerospace and defence sector in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, the industry argues, as well as bolstering national security. BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Italy’s Leonardo … Read more
‘Jet fighter’ godwit breaks world record for non-stop bird flight with epic 7,500-mile journey from Alaska to New Zealand Bar-tailed godwit has broken the world record for longest non-stop bird flight It flew 7,500 miles from Alaska to New Zealand in 11 days without breaking The bird’s aerodynamic build was compared to that of a … Read more
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