The First Air Force at Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base said in a statement on Friday that North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) F-16 aircraft had intercepted a "general aviation aircraft" ...

Japan carried out a total of 704 fighter aircraft scrambles from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025, an increase from 669 in ...

In some cases, pilots were intercepted with flares. In the most extreme scenarios, fighter jets are authorized to use missiles.“You’re almost a machine at that point,” Papp told Terri.

Scrambles against Chinese military aircraft accounted for 65.9% of the total, and the number of Chinese drones detected by ...

Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday he met Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man wrongly deported to El Salvador ...

China last year sent more drones to probe Japanese airspace than in any previous year, part of an overall increase in ...

Japan scrambled fighter jets against approaching aircraft just over 700 times in fiscal 2024, marking the first increase in three years, the Defense Ministry said Thursday, citing a notable uptick in ...

Experts stress the urgent need to upgrade the Philippine Air Force due to its limited capabilities in defending against China ...

Manila and Beijing are involved in a long-standing territorial dispute in the South China Sea, marked by vessel ramming and skirmishes between coastguards, and Chinese fighter jets firing flares ...