Category: Air Force

Shaw Air Force Base officials said the pilot of an F-16C from the 20th Fighter Wing was forced to jettison two 370-gallon external fuel tanks over an unpopulated area in South Carolina during a training mission on Oct. 28 afternoon.

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Sukhoi handed over another batch of Su-34 fighter bombers to the Russian Air and Space Force on Oct. 28.

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A 19 year-old assigned to a Russia Su-25 unit now deployed to Syria has died there on Oct. 24. Vadim Kostenko is said to have hanged himself because of a relationship problem with his girlfriend. He is the first Russian serviceman confirmed to have died in Syria after Moscow started air strikes in the country.

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A Royal Canadian Air Force C-130 crew had the opportunity to aerial refuel a Italian Air Force Tornado fighter bomber over Trapani Air Base in Sicily during Exercise Trident Juncture 2015.