All articles tagged with #military flights
Senator Ted Cruz is pushing for legislative changes to improve safety and oversight of military flights near airports, especially following a deadly airline crash, with proposals including enhanced ADS-B requirements and audits of military airspace procedures.
Egypt has refused to comply with US requests to close its airspace to Russian military flights, despite the US and Ukraine persuading other countries to cut access for Russian military planes last year. This move tests the limits of Washington's ability to choke off Moscow's supplies ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Britain has launched a large-scale evacuation of its citizens from Sudan, with military flights departing from an airfield outside Khartoum. The country has estimated that about 4,000 of its nationals are in Sudan. One flight has already left with two more expected overnight. The British government said it was ready to take over the running of the airfield to allow flights to continue if needed. The government is also exploring other options for evacuations, including Port Sudan.
The US has witnessed a "significant spike" in aggressive Russian military flights in Syria this month, according to the commander of US Central Command. Russian ground-attack aircraft fly over US bases loaded with weapons "in an attempt to try and be provocative." The US and Russia have a deconfliction line between the two militaries to ensure operations do not result in a miscalculation or an unintentional escalation. The Russian actions were a means of trying to "renegotiate the deconfliction protocols that they violate every day."