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This incident is believed to be the first commercial passenger plane attacked by hostile forces. [1] On 24 August 1938 – during the Second Sino-Japanese War – the Kweilin, a DC-2 jointly operated by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and Pan American World Airways, carrying 18 passengers and crew, was forced down by Japanese aircraft in Chinese territory just north of Hong Kong. 15 ...
Shot down Location(s) Incident Circumstances Ref. January 28, 2023 February 4, 2023 USAF F-22. Alaska, Western Canada, and contiguous U.S. 2023 Chinese balloon incident: A Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon transited Canadian and U.S. airspace before being shot down off the coast of South Carolina by the U.S. Air Force on February 4 ...
U-2 pilot takes a selfie with both the U-2 shadow and the balloon while surveilling the Chinese asset over the US during the 2023 Chinese balloon incident. In 2020, the U-2 made history as the first military aircraft to integrate Artificial Intelligence on a mission. [164] The AI program, code-named ARTUμ, was developed by the U-2 Federal ...
The Hainan Island incident was a ten-day international incident between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) that resulted from a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese Air Force J-8 interceptor on April 1, 2001.
The machine was accidentally shot down by Syrian air defenses [11] while Israeli F-16s were operating over Syria and attacking ground targets. At the time of the shooting down there were 15 people on board, none of whom survived. [11] Russia initially accused Israel of using the Il-20M as cover for their F-16s. According to Israeli statements ...
Spy balloon videos dominated TikTok. ... The incident comes a week after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down over South Carolina. ... White House confirms US fighter jets have shot down a new ...
Israel blew up an Iran sponsored Syrian missile factory after its elite commandos raided it last September. The missiles posed an existential threat to Israel amid its war against Tehran's proxies.
A USAF SR-71 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. A reconnaissance aircraft (colloquially, a spy plane) is a military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance with roles including collection of imagery intelligence (including using photography), signals intelligence, as well as measurement and signature intelligence.