In what it called a “historic step,” the European Commission agreed on Tuesday to a €500 million ($512 million) plan that would allow EU members to jointly procure weapons to address the urgent need to replenish a defense products deficit stemming from the Ukraine conflict. The proposal is supposed to …
Read More »Russia scrambles UN Security Council over Bucha war crimes accusations
Moscow will convene an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council over the incident in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, Russia’s deputy permanent representative with the organization, Dmitry Polyansky said Sunday. Ukraine has accused Russia of massacring civilians in the town, while Moscow dismissed the incident as staged by the …
Read More »NATO member scrambles fighter jets over incursion from Ukraine
Hungary scrambled Saab JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets on Monday in response to an unidentified aircraft entering its airspace from Ukraine, the Defense Ministry reported. The mission was ordered by NATO’s Joint Air Operations Center, a Monday evening report said. At around noon, radars detected the aircraft moving through eastern …
Read More »UK scrambles fighter jets over ‘unidentified aircraft’
The British Ministry of Defence has announced the deployment of Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fighter jets, alongside an air-to-air refueling tanker, north of Scotland after an unidentified plane was spotted in the area. A spokesperson for the ministry stated that the action was taken in response to “unidentified aircraft …
Read More »WATCH: Russia scrambles four fighter jets as US Air Force B-52H bombers fly over Bering Sea heading towards country’s border
According to the National Defense Management Center, Moscow detected three targets approaching the state border. Four planes – two MiG-31 and two Su-35 fighters – were scrambled to escort the American aircraft. “The Russian fighter crews identified the aerial targets as B-52H strategic bombers of the US Air Force Global …
Read More »WATCH: Russia scrambles two fighter jets as American P-8 Poseidon plane flies over Black Sea during NATO military exercises
According to the National Defense Control Center, on Tuesday evening two planes were scrambled after the radar detected a target approaching Russian airspace. “The crews of the Russian fighters identified the aerial target as a Boeing P-8 Poseidon aircraft and escorted it over the Black Sea,” the National Defense Control …
Read More »Texas halts natural gas exports as states scrambles to end power outages
The governor announced during a media briefing on Wednesday that he had issued a decree forbidding gas producers from selling to clients outside the state through February 21. Citing the current weather crisis that has crippled the state, Abbott said the order would help increase the ability of gas-fired generators …
Read More »Greedy grabber: NASA scrambles to return jam-packed asteroid sampler to Earth as rock dust escapes from ship’s overstuffed ‘belly’
Three days after touching down on asteroid Bennu hundreds of millions of miles away from home, NASA said its Osiris-Rex spacecraft had become so engorged with asteroid fragments that debris is now leaking from its storage compartment. “We’re almost a victim of our own success here,” said Dante Lauretta, lead …
Read More »Russia scrambles EIGHT jets to intercept three US B-52 bombers testing Crimea borders over Ukraine & Black Sea
Russian airspace control detected three US Air Force B-52H strategic bombers approaching the country’s border on Friday, according to a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense. Four Su-27 and four Su-30 fighters were quickly scrambled, and escorted the American aircraft away from Russian airspace. “Violations of the state border …
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