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Footage released by the US Air Force, shot on 14 March 2023, shows two Russian Su-27 aircraft flying close to a US MQ-9 unmanned aircraft over the Black Sea. The US Air Force has said the Russian jets conducted "an unsafe and unprofessional intercept", dumping fuel on the aircraft and striking its propeller, forcing Washington to bring down the MQ-9 Reaper drone in international waters. Moscow denied its aircraft had damaged the unmanned drone and said on Wednesday that it would try to retrieve the wreckage and also warned that it would react "proportionately" to any future US "provocations" as tensions. IMAGES
Italian and French acrobatics teams fly over Rome after the signing of the Franco-Italian Quirinal Treaty. The treaty was signed at 9 AM (0800 GMT) at the Quirinal Palace by French President Emmanuel Macron and the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, in the presence of Italian President Sergio Mattarella. IMAGES
The twelfth edition of China's largest air show, Airshow China 2018, took place with a dazzling display in Zhuhai in China's southern Guangdong Province. The opening ceremony was marked with aerobatic performances by the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) 'August 1' Aerobatics Team and the PLAAF Aviation University's 'Red Falcon' Air Demonstration Team.
Although 72 years of peace have passed since Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, there are still some that can recall those horrifying years of war. Veteran pilot Yakov Lomko remembers how Soviet Air Force troops turned propellers by hand in the freezing weather before taking off. He is able to marvel at today's modern Russian aviation technology through the use of virtual reality and see just how far technology has come.
Tens of thousands of people are fleeing Aleppo as Syrian troops, backed by Russian air force, close in the city. Most of these refugees arrive to the Syrian-Turkish border where they live in tents awaiting to be admitted into Turkey.
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