Lockheed Martin, Boeing Settle F-22 Fighter Wrongful Death Suit
U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Kasey Close(NEW YORK) — Defense contracting giants Lockheed Martin and Boeing have settled a wrongful death lawsuit leveled against them by the widow of an F-22 fighter pilot killed in a crash shortly after his plane…
Air Force: There Never Was a ‘Smoking Gun’ for F-22 Problems
U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Kasey Close(WASHINGTON) — There is no single malfunction to blame for the mystery oxygen problems with America’s most expensive fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor, but the Air Force believes it has solved the potentially deadly …
Report: F-22 Fighter Loses $79 Billion Advantage in Dogfights
U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock(WASHINGTON) — The United States has spent nearly $80 billion to develop the most advanced stealth fighter jet in history, the F-22 Raptor, but the Air Force recently found out firsthand that while the plane…
Top Syrian General Defects; Turkey Recovers Pilots Downed by Syria
Alessio Romenzi/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) — There have been numerous defections by members of the Syrian military during the country’s 16-month-long uprising, but President Bashar al-Assad suffered a personal embarrassment on Thursday when a gene…
Turkey Scrambles F-16 Jets to Syrian Border
iStockphoto/Thinkstock (file photo)(ANKARA, Turkey) — The relationship between Syria and Turkey became further strained on Saturday, when the Turkish Air Force scrambled six F-16 fighter jets following sightings of Syrian helicopters near the border b…
Syrian Official: Downed Turkish Jet Probably Mistaken for Israeli Plane
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(DAMASCUS, Syria) — A high-ranking Syrian government official suggested on Wednesday that last week’s shoot-down of a Turkish war jet was a mistake.However, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoebi likely started another contro…
NATO Won’t Take Military Action in Response to Turkish Jet Downing
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(BRUSSELS) — Turkey may have to take matters into its own hands following last week’s downing of one of its fighter jets by Syrian forces after NATO announced Tuesday that there would be no collective armed response to the crisis…
NATO Condemns Syria for Downing Turkish Plane
NATO(BRUSSELS) — NATO condemned Syria on Tuesday for downing a Turkish fighter jet last Friday.After holding an emergency session on the incident in Brussels, the North Atlantic Council issued a statement saying, “We consider this act to be unacceptab…
More F-22 Fighter Pilots Concerned About Their Safety: Congressmen
U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Kasey Close(WASHINGTON) — Several more pilots have come forward to say they too are concerned about the oxygen problems plaguing America’s most expensive fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor, according to lawmakers.On the sa…
US Fighter Jets Intercept Korean Airlines Flight After Bomb Threat
SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images(VANCOUVER, British Columbia) — Two U.S. fighter jets scrambled to meet a Korean Airlines Boeing 777 Tuesday night after a bomb threat was reported shortly after the plane took off from Vancouver, British Columb…
Air Force Contradicts Itself in Blame for F-22 Fighter Crash
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson(WASHINGTON) — Three months after the Air Force placed blame squarely on an F-22 fighter pilot who died when he crashed in the service’s most expensive plane after his oxygen system failed in mid-air, a top Air Force off…
Air Force Base Quietly Pauses F-22 Fighter Ops After More Air Problems
U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Kasey Close(JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska) — American pilots at an Alaskan military base have reported a sudden spike of incidents in which they experienced an apparent lack of oxygen while flying the nation’s mo…
White House, Saudi Arabia Sign $30B F-15 Deal
Hemera/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The Obama administration Thursday finalized a $30 billion sale of new Boeing F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia in a deal meant to counteract Iran and support an estimated 50,000 U.S. jobs.The deal, which was approved by…