The top most impressive military aircraft on Earth! From fifth-generation fighter jets to experimental space planes #9 Boeing EA-18G Growler The most advanced modern method of airborne electronic attack, the EA-18G Growler is a source of military support in the field. This plane safeguards strike aircrafts thanks to its ability to tactically jam and protect electronics during hazardous missions. Thanks in part to powerful afterburners, the maximum speed of the Growler is a whopping 1,190 miles per hour or Mach 1.8. The EA-18G typically isn’t weighed down by heavy machinery as its normal payloads consist of external fuel tanks, jamming pods, and some missiles. A larger jet, the Growler has room for a single pilot and a weapons system officer, despite being equipped with minimal projectile weapons. Regardless of equipped self-defense capabilities, though, pilots of this plane tend to be more concerned with matters of disruption and radar-tampering. #8 Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST One of the latest projects of the United States X-planes, a category assigned to experimental planes under development for the U.S. government, the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Transport, or QueSST for short, was devised to test the potential for supersonic transport. Lockheed Martin won the design contract to build this aircraft in 2016 with an extensive time table for building, testing and reporting the results of scale models beforehand. Earlier this year, NASA awarded them with a $247.5 million contract to continue with the project and go on to fully design, construct and deliver the plane by 2021. [More]

Iran has threatened to destroy US military bases and aircraft carriers in the Gulf if they ‘make a mistake’. A commander in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Nejat, said on Tuesday the U.S. regional bases are in range of Iranian missiles, the Tasnim news agency reported. The threat comes amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran, which has sharply increased in recent weeks.  A commander in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Nejat, (pictured) said on Tuesday the U.S. regional bases are in range of Iranian missiles, the Tasnim news agency reported A year after the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal, tension between the two nations remain high, with dispute over oil tanker explosions and Tehran’s uranium enrichment program (Pictured: Smoke billowing from Norwegian owned Front Altair tanker said to have been attacked in waters of the Gulf of Oman) ‘American bases are within the range of our missiles … Our missiles will destroy their aircraft carriers if they make a mistake,’ said Hossein Nejat. ‘Americans are very well aware of the consequences of a military confrontation with Iran.’ A year after the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal, tension between the two nations remain high, with dispute over oil tanker explosions and Tehran’s uranium enrichment program. A Ukrainian tanker carrying Iranian oil was seized by US-backed Egypt in the Suez Canal ten days ago, it emerged yesterday.It comes a day after six ‘spies for Iran’ were locked up by an Egypt’s Supreme State Security Criminal Court. The men were jailed for between [More]