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US Military Shoots Down Unidentified Object Over Alaska

On Friday, a US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object found flying over Alaska. US President Joe Biden ordered the military to shoot down the object, which was flying at a high altitude. The discovery and subsequent shooting down...

Greek Pilot Efstathios Tsitlakidis Killed in F-4 Crash Laid to Rest

The funeral of Captain Efstathios Tsitlakidis was held Friday in the village of Granitis, near the northern Greek town of Drama. The F-4E Phantom II of Captain Efstathios Tsitlakidis, 31, crashed during a training exercise in the Ionian Sea on...

Greece Mourns Air Force Pilot Marios Touroutsikas

Greece is mourning on Thursday the death of Marios Touroutsikas, the co-pilot killed on a fighter jet that crashed in the Ionian Sea, as his funeral was held at the city of Tripoli on Thursday. The coffin of 29-year-old Lieutenant...

Search for Missing Air Force Pilot Continues in Greece

A search-and-rescue operation to locate the missing pilot of a fallen Greek airforce F-4 jet fighter continued on Tuesday, entering its second day. The plane crashed into the sea off the coast of Katakolo, Ilia on Monday morning, during a...

Erdogan Says Turkey Will Unveil Its Own Fighter Jet in 2025

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in Ankara on Thursday that Turkey’s 5th generation fighter jet will make its first flight in 2025. Turkey’s first indigenous combat aircraft, the National Combat Aircraft (MMU) will emerge from hangars in 2023, he...

Armenia Charges Turkey Shot Down One of Its Jets, Killing Pilot

Armenian authorities charged on Tuesday that the nation of Turkey is responsible for the shooting down of one of its fighter jets, killing the pilot. If true, this would be a major provocation and an escalation of the conflict in...

Two Turkish F-16 Fighter Jets Violate Greek Airspace

For yet another time this year, two Turkish F-16 fighter jets flew over the Greek island of Kinaros at a height of 27,000 feet on Tuesday morning, according to what the state-run AMNA news agency is reporting. The incident took...

United States Mulls F-35 Fighter Jet Sales to Greece

The United States is considering expanding sales of Lockheed Martin Corp-made F-35 fighter jets to Greece, according to a Reuters report which came out on Thursday. The US is considering boosting the defenses of four European allies, including Greece, Spain, Romania...

Barrage of Turkish Fighter Jets Fly Over Greece

A barrage of Turkish fighter jets over Greek territory has been marked on Monday noon. Two Turkish fighter jets flew over Oinousses around 1:30 pm and an hour and a half later, the same action was spotted over North-Eastern...

Fighter Jet Crashes in Northern Greece; Pilot Safe

An A7 Corsair fighter jet crashed near the city of Komotini in Northern Greece on Tuesday morning August 26. The Greek pilot who was flying the old A7 Corsair managed to use the ejection seat mechanism and survive the crash....