DefenceTalkTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan jets into Russia Tuesday for his first meeting with counterpart Vladimir Putin since the two strongmen leaders began healing a bitter feud over Ankara’s downing of a Russian warplane. Erdogan’s visit to Putin’s hometown of Saint Petersburg is also his first foreign trip since the failed coup against him last […]https://www.defencetalk.com/putin-and-erdogan-meet-to-mend-ties-after-jet-downing-rift-67967/

DefenceTalkFORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md: One of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds crash landed June 2 in a field near Colorado Springs, Colorado, following the U.S. Air Force Academy commencement, which was attended by President Barack Obama. The F-16 Fighting Falcon, the #6 jet in the formation, crashed about 5 nautical miles south of Peterson […]https://www.defencetalk.com/thunderbird-f-16-crashes-after-academy-graduation-pilot-safe-67577/

DefenceTalkA B-52 bomber was left a fiery wreck after crashing at a US airbase on the Pacific island of Guam Thursday but all seven crew escaped unharmed, officials said. The giant B-52H Stratofortress went down at Andersen Air Force Base at 8:30 am (2230 GMT Wednesday) with photos showing flames and thick black smoke billowing […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-b-52-bomber-crashes-on-guam-crew-safe-67514/

DefenceTalkTwelve Algerian soldiers were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash caused by technical failure in the south of the country, the defence ministry said. The Mi-171 helicopter crashed during a reconnaissance mission near Reggane, in the southwestern province of Adrar, the APS press agency quoted the ministry as saying. The vice-minister of defence and army […]https://www.defencetalk.com/12-algerian-soldiers-killed-in-helicopter-crash-67178/

DefenceTalkLos Angeles: An F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday in the southwestern state of Arizona, the US Air Force said, adding a search and rescue mission for the pilot was ongoing. “The cause of the crash is unknown at this time,” the Air Force said in a statement, adding the incident had occurred at 8:45 am […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-f-16-jet-crashes-in-arizona-status-of-pilot-unknown-66505/

DefenceTalkAn Iranian F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashed during training exercises near the border with Pakistan on Tuesday, killing both pilots, state television reported. State TV quoted a local security official as saying the plane had crashed about 65 kilometres (40 miles) from the city of Konarak in Iran’s southern Sistan-Baluchistan province. “Unfortunately a military training […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iranian-fighter-jet-crashes-2-pilots-dead-66351/

DefenceTalkThe US Air Force recently lost control of two armed Predator drones in separate incidents in Turkey and Iraq, a US military official said Wednesday. The Predators were both carrying air-to-surface Hellfire missiles when they crashed, but these were safely recovered along with the aircraft. In the first case on October 17, a Predator crew […]https://www.defencetalk.com/two-armed-us-predator-drones-crash-in-iraq-turkey-65677/

DefenceTalkJalalabad, Afghanistan: The Taliban Friday claimed to have shot down a C-130 military transport plane in eastern Afghanistan, with NATO confirming that 11 people including six US soldiers were killed in the crash. NATO did not confirm the cause of the crash but it comes as Afghan forces — backed by NATO special forces and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/taliban-shot-down-crashed-us-c-130-plane-afghanistan-65525/

DefenceTalkA supersonic F-16 fighter collided Tuesday with a small Cessna trainer over South Carolina killing both people in the Cessna and spreading debris over a wide area, US officials said. The mid-air collision occurred late in the morning about 11 miles (20 kilometers) north of Charleston, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said. The US Air […]https://www.defencetalk.com/two-dead-as-f-16-cessna-collide-in-south-carolina-64827/

DefenceTalkTwo pilots of a Russian military aircraft were killed Monday when their jet crashed during a training mission in the far east of the country, the defence ministry said, the latest in a string of accidents involving military planes. “The aircraft suffered a crash during take-off in a planned training flight near the Khurba aerodrome. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/two-pilots-killed-in-russian-military-jet-crash-64801/