Trevor “Gonky” Hartsock, the second American F/A-18 instructor for the Royal Malaysian Air Force, has a new video of him dogfighting against the Su-30MKM. In this video, we can see the Su-30MKM was able to utilize its thrust-vectoring nozzles on its Lyulka AL-31FP afterburning turbofan engines to reverse the fight when the Hornet was at […]

A rare U.S. Air Force RC-135U Combat Sent reconnaissance aircraft was intercepted Russian Air Force MiG-31BM and Su-35S fighters over Sea of Japan on Jul. 11. There are only two RC-135U currently in service and this particular example intercepted is 64-14849. Three RC-135C were converted to the RC-135U and one aircraft, 63-9792, was later converted […]