JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – On June 22, 1955, two Russian MiG 15’s from Siberia shot down a U.S. Navy plane flying a routine maritime patrol over the Bering Sea. It crash-landed on an ice shelf prompting fourteen Guardsmen from the First Scout Battalion to mount a rescue mission saving everyone on board. On July […]
WHITE HOUSE — Australia announced Tuesday it has temporarily suspended airstrikes by its forces in Syria. The move comes days after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Syrian jet, and Syrian ally Russia responded by threatening to treat planes from a U.S.-led coalition operating in the skies over Syria as targets. Australia is part of […]
Russia says it will now treat all U.S.-led coalition planes in the air over Syria, west of the Euphrates, as targets after an American fighter jet for the first time in the six-year conflict shot down a Syrian military plane. In a statement Monday, the Russian military also said it is suspending use of a […]
It was announced by Iranian military officials on Sunday that they had shot down an Israeli spy drone as it neared their nuclear facility at Natanz and afterwards recovered the drone’s data collection system. Israeli officials made no comment of the news released by Iran. The pilotless aircraft was taken down with a surface-to-air missile […]