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LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Air Combat Command released an accident investigation board report today regarding the E-11A crash that occurred January 27, 2020, during which two pilots were fatally injured. The E-11A crashed in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, following a catastrophic engine failure. Both pilots, Lt. Col. Paul K. Voss, 46, and Capt. Ryan S. Phaneuf, 30, were assigned to the 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, and were conducting a combat sortie in support of Operation FREEDOM’S SENTINEL. Their mission, and the mission of the E-11A...

It’s difficult to train pilots. Here's What You Need To Remember: It’s possible, Cooper wrote, that the SyAAF overhauled the surviving planes and returned them to regular service. The Syrian air arm has made a concerted effort to upgrade dozens of surviving L-39s, subsequently deploying them for nighttime air raids Between 2013 and 2017 a small number of L-39 light attack jets at a Syrian air force base east of Aleppo changed hands several times. Syrian rebels captured them from the Syrian air force. Then Islamic State militants seized the planes from the rebels. Finally, forces loyal to...

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Gen. Mark D. Kelly signed a plan, Dec. 15, effectively formalizing the 53rd Wing’s Large Force Test Events into “Black Flag” – an event solely focused on test and tactics development in a realistic, massed force, fully integrated, high threat density environment. Establ

Leonardo Hack Allegedly Targeted Details Of nEUROn UCAV Program Leonardo Hack Allegedly Targeted Details Of nEUROn UCAV Program Preliminary inquiry documents in the Leonardo hack suggest hackers were targeting nEUROn drone, C-27J and ATR-72 documents. For almost two years, between May 2015 and January 2017, the IT infrastructure of Leonardo, the Italian multinational aerospace and defense company, and the 8th largest defence contractor in the world, was targeted by a persistent cyber attack (known as Advanced Persistent Threat or APT), carried out with installation in systems, networks and in...

The military is scrambling to understand the aviation crash risk from a new 5G sale Valerie Insinna and Aaron Mehta December 21, 2020 (Staff Sgt. Ryan Callaghan/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — As part of a broader move to boost the 5G industry in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 8 began auctioning a portion of C-band electromagnetic spectrum, a move the committee’s chairman, Ajit Pai, celebrated as “a big day for American consumers and U.S. leadership in 5G.” But, in the weeks leading up to the auction, more than a dozen commercial aviation groups warne...