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One of the F-16 fighter jets sent from Nato allies to Ukraine has been destroyed, a Ukrainian military source has told the BBC. The aircraft went down amid a barrage of Russian missiles on Monday, killing pilot Oleksiy Mes, Ukraine's military said. It marks the first loss of its kind since the planes were delivered earlier this month. The cause of the crash was not a direct result of an enemy missile strike, the Ukrainian military claims. It said the pilot destroyed three cruise missiles and one drone in Russia's largest aerial attack to date.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the commander of the country's air force Friday, four days after an F-16 warplane that Ukraine received from its Western partners crashed during a Russian bombardment. The order to dismiss Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleshchuk was published on the presidential website. "We need to protect people. Protect personnel. Take care of all our soldiers," Zelenskyy said in an address minutes after the order was published. He said Ukraine needs to strengthen its army on the command level. The dismissal came on the same day that Oleshchuk directed scathing criticism at a lawmaker who is deputy head...

President Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked the commander of Ukraine's air force, Lt Gen Mykola Oleshchuk, amid debate over the destruction of one of the country's valuable new F-16 fighter jets. Mr Zelensky did not give a reason for the dismissal, but in a post to Telegram he said that it was his responsibility to "take care of all our warriors". On Monday, one of the US-made F-16 fighter jets delivered earlier this month from Ukraine's Western allies went down during a barrage of Russian missiles, killing the pilot. The cause of the crash was not a direct result of an...

Three cadets set to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine will not be commissioned as military officers, the academy said Saturday. The cadets will still earn their bachelors degrees, according to the academy. Academy spokesman Dean Miller said that a fourth cadet who had refused the vaccine until about a week ago decided to get vaccinated and will graduate and become an Air Force officer. In a statement, Miller said that while the other three will receive their degrees, "they will not be commissioned into the United States Air Force as long as...

Lieutenant Colonel Bree Fram, is an active duty astronautical engineer in the US Air Force.The WOKE brass in the US military thought Fram's story of transition was so amazing, they decided to put out a short video to the public to let all the other future soldiers with gender dysphoria know, they have a place in the US military.If you notice, since Biden took over and occupied the White House, not a single video showing a wounded warrior or soldier who performed acts of extreme heroics on the battlefield has been featured in a video. No, nowadays, we get trans...

How do you figure out whether a foam firefighting system in an air force hangar is set up correctly and works? Well you turn it on for a few seconds, to make sure it's got pressure and everything. First you set up a scaffolding so you can record the event and show the flow coming out of all nozzles. And then you let 'er rip. After 15 seconds you can see foam is covering all areas it has to, so the test is successful. Shut 'er off. Uh, guys? Shut 'er off? Aw crap. Whatever was meant to shut off...

Here’s a story that will throw you for a loop: a "chaplain” at the U.S. Air Force Academy is complaining that the school’s administration has a "systemic and pervasive” problem of promoting religious religious values with a Christian bent. The chaplain, Capt. Melinda Morton, a "Lutheran minister” spoke out publicly on Tuesday as an Air Force task force arrived at the academy to investigate charges that officers and staff members pushed their religious beliefs on cadets. And she claimed that a tolerance program developed at the academy, called Respecting the Spiritual Values of all People (R.S.V.P.), was watered down after...