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Mar 17 2023
News
Slovakia To Donate 13 MiG-29 Fighter Jets To Ukraine
Slovakia said Friday it will donate 13 MiG-29 warplanes to Ukraine, becoming the second NATO member -- following Poland -- to pledge the aircraft, which the Kremlin warned would be "destroyed".
"We will hand over 13 of our MiG-29 jets to Ukraine," Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger told journalists, adding that Bratislava would also deliver a Kub air defence system to Ukraine.
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International Business TimesApr 20 2024
News
Slovakia Joins Hungary, Poland in Opposition to EU Migration Pact
After years of negotiations, the European Parliament voted to accept the resolutions on the Union’s migration policy reform earlier this month. What came to be known as ‘the migration pact’ calls on all Member States to relocate asylum seekers so that they are more proportionally distributed, and thus certain Member States do not have to deal with disproportionate migratory pressure. Members
Hungarian ConservativeMay 08 2024
News
Fighter Jet Crashes At Singapore Airbase
An F-16 fighter jet crashed at a military airbase in Singapore on Wednesday with no casualties, the defence ministry said. "The pilot successfully ejected and the plane crashed thereafter within Tengah Air Base," it said in a statement. "The pilot is conscious and able to walk. He is receiving medical attention and no other personnel are hurt." The ministry said the Singapore jet "experienced
Barron'sMar 17 2023
News
Slovakia joins Poland in offering Ukraine warplanes to fight Russia
Slovakia’s government has approved a plan to give Ukraine its fleet of 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets, becoming the second NATO member country to agree to fulfill Kyiv’s pleas for warplanes to help beat back Russia’s invasion. Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger announced the unanimous decision of his government Friday. Slovakia grounded its fleet of MiG-29s last year and no longer uses
Los Angeles TimesMar 16 2023
News
Poland to be 1st NATO member to give Ukraine fighter jets
Poland’s president said Thursday that his country plans to give Ukraine around a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, which would make it the first NATO member to fulfill the Ukrainian government’s increasingly urgent requests for warplanes.
President Andrzej Duda said Poland would hand over four of the Soviet-made warplanes “within the next few days” and that the rest needed servicing and would
Associated PressMar 11 2022
Opinion
Letting Poland send fighter jets to Ukraine would heighten the risks of a wider war
As Russia rains relentless fire on Ukrainian cities, the country’s leaders have been pleading for more Western help. But the United States is rightly wary of a proposal to send the Ukrainians MiG-29 fighter jets — a move that would bring small benefits on the battlefield and entail large risks of a wider war.
The dilemma of how to help Ukraine without triggering a global conflict will
David IgnatiusMar 26 2024
News
Japan planning to sell future fighter jets abroad
TOKYO -- Japan's Cabinet today approved a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets that it's developing with Britain and Italy to other countries, in the latest move away from the country's postwar pacifist principles. The contentious decision to allow international arms sales is expected to help secure Japan's role in the joint fighter jet project and is part of a move to build up the
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteMar 18 2024
News
JBER airman killed while working on fighter jet
A U.S. Air Force staff sergeant stationed since last month at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson died on Friday while performing maintenance on a fighter jet, officials said Monday. The 3rd Wing paused operations on Friday after Illinois resident Charles Crumlett died while performing maintenance on an F-22 Raptor, base officials said in a statement. Crumlett died around noon at the scene of the
Anchorage Daily NewsFeb 23 2024
News
Fighter jets intercept balloon over Utah
Fighter jets intercepted a small high-altitude balloon flying over Utah Friday afternoon, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). The organization said in a statement that the balloon is currently being monitored and is not believed to be a threat to national security. The balloon was flying between 43,000–45,000 feet when aircraft were deployed to investigate it. “
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