🇺🇦⚡️🇷🇺 Extremely interesting footage of Ukrainian AA guns shooting down a Russian Cruise Missile.

@planenerd

⚡️🇨🇳 J-15DH Carrier operations.

J-15DH is the Electronic warfare variant of the J-15. According to Chinese Osint, DH probably stands for Dian Hua (电滑， short term for Electronic Warfare, Ski-Jump)

@planenerd

— 🇺🇸/🇵🇰 NEW: The U.S. Department of State has announced sanctions on four entities involved in advancing Pakistan's long-range ballistic missile program: Pakistan’s National Development Complex, Affiliates International, Akhtar and Sons Private Limited, and Rockside Enterprise.

@Middle_East_Spectator

Ah yes

2, April, 2005

🇺🇸⚡️🇵🇰 "Pakistan is developing, increasingly sophisticated and significantly larger (range) ballistic missiles that could target the US, including ICBMs,"

US Deputy National Security Advisor, John Finer says.

This feels like a stretch. Pakistan’s focus has always been on regional security, mainly India, not the US. Building ICBMs to target the US doesn’t make sense, it’s expensive and way outside Pakistan’s defence priorities.

This sounds more like an excuse to justify sanctions, maybe because of Pakistan’s growing ties with China or its neutral stance in global rivalries. It’s not about a real threat it’s just geopolitics.

@planenerd

Folks I will not be available for some time due to familial obligations. My friends will post here in my place. Stay safe.

⚡️🇺🇸🇾🇪 BREAKING: a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet was shot down over the Red Sea in a Friendly Fire incident.

According to multiple sources, the USS Gettysburg, a Ticonderoga-class Guided Missile Cruiser of the US Navy engaged an F/A-18 Super Hornet by accident as it took off from the USS Harry S. Truman, a Nimitz-class Nuclear-Powered Supercarrier.

@Medmannews

⚡️🇺🇸 While the CENTCOM statement didn’t specify the squadron, the only two-seater F/A-18F squadron embarked aboard Truman are the “Red Rippers” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 11 from Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia.

The strike group was tasked as part of the US led Operation Prosperity Guardian, the mission to protect merchant traffic in the Red Sea from Houthi attacks from Yemen.

The Cruiser, Gettysburg only deployed to this operational theatre a week ago. In only a week it has managed to do over $40 Million in damages to the US effort. Bravo.

PS: Detailed analysis later, when more information is available.

@planenerd

⚡⚡🇾🇪🇺🇸 Yemeni Houthie group has claimed the downing of US F/A-18 jet in the Red Sea.

The operation was carried out with eight cruise missiles and 17 drones. With the help of God Almighty, the operation resulted in:

First: Shooting down an F-18 aircraft while the destroyers were trying to confront the Yemeni drones and missiles.

Second: Most of the enemy warplanes left Yemeni airspace for international waters in the Red Sea to defend the aircraft carrier while it was being targeted.
Third: The failure of the hostile attack on Yemeni territory

Fourth: The withdrawal of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman after being targeted from its previous location towards the northern Red Sea, after being subjected to more than one attack by the missile force, naval forces, and the air force.

@medmannews

Ah yes