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26.05.2025 - 16:10 [ Interfax.com.ua ]

Invaders launch record-breaking 335 drones over Ukraine at night, 288 of them shot down

On Monday night, the Russian invaders launched nine X-101 air-launched cruise missiles over Ukraine, as well as 355 Shahed strike UAVs and imitator drones of various types, the Telegram channel of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

„As of 11:00, air defenses shot down all nine X-101 cruise missiles, neutralized 288 enemy Shahed UAVs and drones of other types in the east, north, south, west and center of the country. Some 233 were shot down by fire weapons, and 55 were lost/suppressed by electronic warfare,“ the report said.
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There were no reports of casualties or injuries as a result of the hits.

25.05.2025 - 15:45 [ Interfax.com.ua ]

Defense Forces shoot down six out of 14 missiles, neutralize 245 out of 250 enemy drones during the night – Air Force

„As of 8:30 a.m., the air defense shot down six Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles (Kyiv) and neutralized 245 enemy Shahed UAVs (drones of other types) in the east, north, south and center of the country. Some 128 were shot down by fire weapons, 117 were locally lost/suppressed by electronic warfare (without negative consequences),“ the report says.

In total, on the night of May 24 (from 20:30 on May 23), the enemy launched an attack on Ukraine using 14 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, attacking Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Zaporizhia regions, and also launched 250 Shahed-type attack UAVs and various types of drone imitators at Ukraine, primarily at Kyiv.

09.05.2025 - 14:13 [ theNews.com.pk ]

Shares of Rafale maker plunge, China’s defence stocks advance as Pakistan downs IAF jets

Most modern domestically developed Chinese platforms have not yet been battle-tested, said Eric Zhu, a defence analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. “So having the combat record is a plus for their export potential.”

09.05.2025 - 14:09 [ Techi.com ]

Dassault Aviation Stocks Fluctuated After Pakistan Claimed to Shot Down Rafale Jets

While Indian sources have disputed some aspects of these claims, the market response was immediately felt. Dassault Aviation, which had seen a rise in stock value due to strong Rafale sales, witnessed a minor drop. On the other hand, reports of shares of Chengdu Aircraft Corporation, the producer of Pakistan’s J-10C and JF-17 jets, surged.

09.05.2025 - 14:03 [ CNN ]

French official says Pakistan downed Rafale jet as officials examine possible further losses

(May 7, 2025)

A high-ranking French intelligence official told CNN today that one Rafale fighter jet operated by the Indian Air Force was downed by Pakistan, in what would mark the first time that one of the sophisticated French-made warplanes has been lost in combat.

Pakistan claimed earlier today to have shot down five Indian Air Force jets in retaliation for Indian strikes, including three Rafales. Indian officials are yet to respond to the claim.

07.05.2025 - 17:57 [ Daily Pakistan ]

26 Pakistanis martyred, 46 injured in Indian strikes: DG ISPR

In attacks at six various locations, 26 Pakistanis were martyred and 46 were injured.

He Masjid Bilal near Muzaffarabad was targeted by Indian aggression, resulting in death of three civilians. A mosque in Muridke was also targeted, where 3 men lost their lives and one injured, while in Kotli, a 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old boy were martyred. However, there have been no reports of casualties from Sialkot and Shakargarh.

The DG ISPR added 13 people were martyred in a cowardly attack in Ahmedpur Sharqia.

07.05.2025 - 17:51 [ Associated Press ]

India fires missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory, killing at least 26

Pakistan claimed it shot down several Indian fighter jets in retaliation as two planes fell onto villages in India-controlled Kashmir. At least seven civilians were also killed in the region by Pakistani shelling, Indian police and medics said.

Tensions have soared between the nuclear-armed neighbors since the attack, which India has blamed Pakistan for backing. Islamabad has denied the accusation.

12.01.2025 - 18:43 [ Heise.de ]

Kritische Infrastruktur: Bundeswehr soll Drohnen im Inland abschießen dürfen

(January 10, 2025)

Das Luftsicherheitsgesetz gestattet es der Bundeswehr bisher nur, recht milde Mittel einzusetzen. So dürfen die Streitkräfte im Luftraum fliegende Objekte abdrängen, zur Landung zwingen, den Einsatz von Waffengewalt androhen oder Warnschüsse abgeben. Abschüsse zur Ergänzung polizeilicher Aktionen sollen nun vor allem infrage kommen, wenn ein katastrophaler Schaden oder Gefahr für Leib und Leben droht. Als Beispiele werden ein Flugzeug- oder Eisenbahnunglück, der Ausfall des Stromnetzes oder ein drohender Terroranschlag genannt

05.10.2024 - 18:25 [ Shafaq.com ]

Israeli army intercepts an Iranian drone over Iraq

The Times of Israel reported that the aircraft, believed to be transporting weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon or Syria, was intercepted over Iraq. Israeli forces reportedly acted on suspicions that the plane was carrying arms intended for the Iran-aligned resistance group.

Israel‘s Channel 13, citing military officials, said the Israeli army is preparing for a potential major operation against Iran. No further details were provided.

29.09.2024 - 01:55 [ Reuters ]

Israeli strike hit 500 metres from Beirut airport buildings, security source says

An Israeli strike hit an industrial area 500 metres from Beirut airport buildings, a security source told Reuters, saying it was the closest strike yet to the airport.
The source said the area hit was full of car repair garages.
The boss of Lebanon‘s national carrier Middle East Airlines Mohammad al-Hout said the airport was operating normally.

29.09.2024 - 01:42 [ Anadolu ]

Israeli army hacks into Beirut Airport control tower, threatens Iranian civilian plane

The Israeli army on Saturday hacked into the control tower of Beirut‘s Rafic Hariri International Airport, issuing threats against an Iranian civilian aircraft attempting to land, according to official sources.

The Lebanese Ministry of Transport instructed airport authorities to prevent the Iranian plane from entering Lebanese airspace following Israeli threats to target the aircraft if it landed at the airport.

16.04.2024 - 18:27 [ Washington Post ]

Biden counsels Netanyahu to ‘slow things down’ after Iranian attack

At about 9 p.m., Biden spoke with Netanyahu, who was with his own war cabinet in Israel’s war room monitoring the situation. “It was shortly after we believed the attack was largely defeated,” said the senior administration official. “Both leaders had just gone through 10 days of preparations” and seeing the results, “we were feeling pretty good about where we were.”

15.04.2024 - 15:17 [ Times of Israel ]

US, UK and Jordan intercept many of the Iranian drones headed to Israel

(14.04.2024)

The United States, Britain, Jordan and France all helped to intercept the massive barrage of drones Iran fired at Israel overnight Saturday, according to officials.

29.03.2024 - 18:46 [ Syrian Arab News Agency ]

Russian air defenses down 15 Ukrainian missiles over Belgorod

(today)

“Our Russian defenses managed to thwart a new attempt by the Kiev regime to launch a terrorist attack with RM-70 vamp launchers on Belgorod, and 15 missiles targeting the city were shot down, “RIA Novosti quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying in a statement.

21.01.2024 - 08:55 [ airandspaceforces.com ]

USAF MQ-9 Downed in Iraq, Likely by Iranian-Provided Missile

The U.S. Air Force MQ-9 was likely downed by an Iranian-provided surface-to-air missile fired by an Iranian-affiliated Iraqi group, U.S. officials said. The MQ-9 was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the anti-ISIS mission, a senior U.S. military official added.

The drone crashed near the Balad Air Base and was recovered by Iraqi Security Forces.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iraqi militias supported by Tehran, claimed that it shot down the MQ-9 over Diyala Province after it took off from Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait.

31.12.2023 - 14:36 [ Associated Press ]

US forces shoot down ballistic missiles in Red Sea, kill gunmen in attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels

The U.S. military said Sunday it shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired toward a container ship by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. Hours later, four boats tried to attack the same ship, but U.S. forces opened fire, killing several of the armed crews, the U.S. Central Command said.

07.10.2023 - 05:15 [ Bloomberg ]

Turkey Urges US End Working With Kurds Amid Airstrikes on Syria

Turkey called on the US to stop working with Kurdish YPG militants in Syria, vowing to maintain its cross-border offensives against America’s Kurdish allies in Syria after the US shot down a Turkish drone in the region.

07.10.2023 - 04:45 [ Al Jazeera ]

US shoots down Turkish drone over Syria after attacks near Hasakah

Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu, reporting from Istanbul, said the UAV did not belong to the Turkish military, according to a statement.

“It is not only the Turkish military that conducts counterterrorism operations in northern Iraq and Syria,” she said.

She said that the Turkish intelligence and interior ministry’s gendarmerie also joined operations.

24.08.2023 - 16:06 [ Wikipedia ]

Mayday calls

If a mayday call cannot be sent because a radio is not available, a variety of other distress signals and calls for help can be used. Additionally, a mayday call can be sent on behalf of one vessel by another; this is known as a mayday relay.

24.08.2023 - 15:05 [ FlightRadar24.com ]

Russian Legacy 600 crashes near Tver

After leveling off at 28,000 feet at 15:10 UTC, the aircraft continued in level flight at consistent speed until 15:19 UTC at which point the vertical rate decreases dramatically and the aircraft descends briefly before climbing to a maximum altitude of 30,100 feet before descending back to roughly 27,500 feet. It again climbs, reaching 29,300 feet before leveling off once again. It then descends, with the final data received at 15:20:14 UTC at an altitude of 19,725 feet. The altitude graph below shows the final 32 seconds of received altitude data.

24.08.2023 - 14:57 [ Reuters ]

Russian mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin‘s plane appeared fine on radar until last 30 seconds

At 3:19 p.m. GMT, the aircraft made a “sudden downward vertical,” said Ian Petchenik of Flightradar24. Within about 30 seconds, the aircraft had plummeted more than 8,000 feet from its cruising altitude of 28,000 feet.

“Whatever happened, happened quickly,” Petchenik said.

18.05.2023 - 04:05 [ Telegraph.co.uk ]

American Patriots nailed Putin’s hypersonic Kinzhal missile. The world has changed

Today the US National Missile Defence effort is explicitly limited to defence against the sort of attack that might be mounted by a rogue state such as North Korea: it is specifically forbidden to work on things which might be able to stop Russia’s vast ICBM force, to avoid panicking Vladimir Putin.

17.02.2023 - 08:23 [ ORF.at ]

Abgeschossene Flugobjekte: Laut Biden kein Hinweis auf Spionage

Der Ballon sei später über Alaskas Aleuten-Inseln geschwebt und dann über Kanada gedriftet, von wo er anscheinend durch starke Winde auf das Festland der Vereinigten Staaten getrieben sei.

Analysten untersuchten dem Bericht zufolge nun die Möglichkeit, dass China mit seinem „Überwachungsgerät“ nicht absichtlich in das amerikanische Kernland eindringen wollte.

17.02.2023 - 07:48 [ Süddeutsche.de ]

Biden: Flugobjekte waren keine Spionageballons

Am vergangenen Freitag, Samstag und Sonntag hatte Biden angeordnet, jeweils eines dieser Luftschiffe vom Himmel zu holen. Daraufhin feuerten Kampfjets Lenkraketen auf das Ziel. „Aus einem Übermaß an Vorsicht“, sagte er jetzt. „In einer hektischen Phase haben die USA möglicherweise hochentwickelte Waffen eingesetzt, um harmlose Objekte zum Absturz zu bringen“, schreibt die Washington Post.

17.02.2023 - 06:48 [ Adam / Nitter ]

I don’t understand- can’t a F-35 get close enough to take a high res picture- and then do a simple reverse image search to see it was a hobby balloon?

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17.02.2023 - 06:45 [ Washington Post ]

The week Biden had to decide whether to shoot down mysterious objects

“Nothing right now suggests they were related to China’s spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from any other country,” Biden said. “The intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research.”

Biden also said there was no evidence of a sudden increase in the number of aerial objects, saying the United States was finding more of them because of radar adjustments.

05.02.2023 - 09:53 [ William Yang / Nitter ]

„The US believes Chinese spy satellites in low Earth orbit are capable of offering similar or better intelligence, limiting the value of whatever Beijing can glean from the high-altitude balloon, which is the size of three buses, according to another defense official.“

(03.02.2023)

05.02.2023 - 09:37 [ Andrew Russell - Davis / Nitter ]

US secretary of state Antony Blinken has consequently cancelled his weekend visit to China! He‘d expected meeting China’s President Xi Jinping & 1st Biden administration cabinet secretary to visit China & the 1st secretary of state to travel to the country in more than 5 years.

18.01.2023 - 18:20 [ Interfax.com.ua ]

SBU: Investigation considering several versions of helicopter crash in Brovary

The pre-trial investigation is carried out by investigators of the Main Directorate of the SBU in Kyiv and Kyiv region. All possible versions of the helicopter accident are considered.

The case is under the personal control of the Prosecutor General.

30.12.2022 - 18:51 [ Interfax.com.ua ]

Ukrainian air defense destroys 58 cruise missiles, four UAVs, helicopter over past day – Air Force

Another Orlan-10 drone was destroyed in Kyiv region during a missile attack. The invaders planned to use the UAV to carry out aerial reconnaissance and identify the positions of the Ukrainian air defense.

„Therefore, we urge citizens not to publish data on shelling, the positions of our air defense systems and other sensitive information that the enemy will definitely use for subsequent attacks,“ the message says.

03.05.2022 - 10:55 [ Interfax.com.ua ]

Russian drone shot down in Odesa – Odesa regional military administration speaker

„Odesa. Another enemy Forpost-type UAV followed the Russian ship. Thank you, air defense!“ Bratchuk wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday.

02.05.2022 - 15:33 [ Cityreport24 / Twitter ]

Plan: Flugzeug abschießen: Kiew will russischen Spion im Generalstab enttarnt haben

02.05.2022 - 15:16 [ Ukrinform.net ]

Russian mole exposed in Ukraine Army’s General Staff – adviser to President’s Office chief

He added that this false-flag attack was allegedly supposed to be carried out using Ukrainian weapons – portable anti-aircraft missile systems. The spies planned to obtain the weapons, used by our troops, through volunteers. To this end, they had been trying to win trust of the latter, giving them real data on the movement of Russian troops, giving away the coordinates of Ramzan Kadyrov’s ethnic Chechen unit.

„There are three components to this story that describe everything that’s happening in the Russian army now. The first is shooting down a passenger plane, the second is deceiving their leadership, and the third is setting up the Kadyrovites,“ Arestovych concluded.

01.05.2022 - 18:10 [ The Kyiv Independent / Twitter ]

SBU: Russia planned a terrorist attack to blame on Ukraine. The Security Service reported that they neutralized Russia’s sabotage reconnaissance group that had been planning to shoot down a passenger plane over Russia or Belarus and blame it on Ukraine and its allies.

25.02.2022 - 06:48 [ ASB News / MILITARY / Twitter ]

CNN reporting now the explosion over Kyiv tonight was a Ukrainian SU-27 shot down by Russian anti-air battery in the city‘s suburbs — not a Russian aircraft.

13.07.2021 - 12:50 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Weltraumkommando der Bundeswehr: Mehr Durchblick im All

Die NATO hatte auf ihrem letzten Gipfel im Juni erstmalig beschlossen, dass ein Angriff im Weltraum den Bündnisfall auslösen kann. Soll heißen: Ein Angriff im All auf einen kann als Angriff auf alle NATO-Staaten gewertet werden. Darüber befinden soll – von Fall zu Fall und hier auf Erden – das höchste NATO-Entscheidungsgremium, der Nordatlantikrat.

07.05.2021 - 12:25 [ DefenseNews.com ]

Germany joins nascent European push to shoot down hypersonic missiles

(November 30, 2020)

Nudged by France, Berlin changed its status from an observer nation to a participant country in the so-called TWISTER effort on Oct. 24, a Defence Ministry spokesman confirmed to Defense News. The acronym is short for Timely Warning and Interception with Space-Based Theater Surveillance. EU officials included the effort in the November 2019 roster of projects under the bloc’s Permanent Structure Cooperation, or PESCO, scheme.

07.05.2021 - 11:20 [ voanews.com ]

China Points Toward Asteroid Defense System, Comet Mission

(April 24, 2021)

The European Space Agency last year signed a deal worth 129 million euros ($156 million) to build a spacecraft for a joint project with NASA examining how to deflect an asteroid heading for Earth.

07.05.2021 - 11:13 [ Businessinsider.com ]

In a NASA simulation of an asteroid impact, scientists concluded they couldn‘t stop a space rock from decimating Europe

(01.05.2021)

The experts fell short. The group determined that none of Earth‘s existing technologies could stop the asteroid from striking given the six-month time frame of the simulation. In this alternate reality, the asteroid crashed into eastern Europe.