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Let’s Explore The HC-130J Combat King II With This Amazing Walkaround Tour
The HC-130J is the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery aircraft of the U.S. Air Force,...
Read More Legendary F-14 Pilot Dale ‘Snort’ Snodgrass Dies In A Tragic Plane Crash
Snodgrass was the sole occupant of a SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019 that crashed at Lewiston-Nez Perce...
Read More Let’s Have A Look At All The Latest Claims About ‘Checkmate’, Russia’s New Light Tactical Fighter
Several things have been said about Sukhoi Checkmate, the latest Russian 5th generation aircraft...
Read More First Dassault Rafale Aircraft Has Been Officially Delivered To Greece
The first Rafale jet for the Hellenic Air Force has been delivered to Greece today. The Hellenic...
Read More Here Are The Most Interesting Details We Have Noticed In The Official Unveiling Of Russia’s ‘Checkmate’ Fighter Jet
The Checkmate light stealth fighter was officially presented today at MAKS 2021. Here are some...
Read More Using ADS-B Data And Satellite Imagery To “Observe” Interesting Military Aircraft Movements (And Intercepts)
New open source tools complement ADS-B and allow you to spot military activities (including close...
Read More And Here’s Yet Another Image Of Russia’s New Fighter Concept That Will Be Officially Unveiled Tomorrow
Russia’s new stealthy fighter concept, the Sukhoi “CheckMate”, is expected to be...
Read More Here’s The First Clear Image Of The “CheckMate”, Russia’s New Stealth Fighter Design
Markings suggest Russia’s new stealth fighter might be designated the Sukhoi Su-75...
Read More Check Out These Detailed Shots Of The Massive XB-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 Super Bomber’s Cockpit
Take a look at these detailed photographs of the XB-70 Valkyrie’s interior. The iconic North...
Read More Here’s Our First Look At Russia’s New Stealth Fighter Jet
Rostec published some photos of a new design (or mock up) of a 5th generation fighter jet ahead of...
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Azerbaijan, Pakistan And Qatar Emiri Air Force Combat Aircraft Stole The Scene At Anatolian Eagle 2021 in Turkey
Anatolian Eagle 2021, organized by the Turkish Air Force, saw the participation of Azerbaijan,...
Read More Polish Air Force F-16s About to Deploy To Iceland For the First Time
For the first time, the Polish F-16 will patrol the ‘High North’ in support of...
Read More A Quick Look at the Boeing C-32A Flying as Air Force 2 Into Detroit And The Vice-Presidential Motorcade
Vice-President’s Aircraft And Motorcade Are Smaller And More Mobil Than President’s. Keen-eyed...
Read More Slovenian Army To Become The First Military Operator of An All-Electric Trainer
Slovenian Army to test various Pipistrel basic trainers to select the one that will replace its...
Read More Enjoy This Walkaround Tour Of The New HH-60W Jolly Green II Combat Rescue Helicopter
Following the tour of the HH-60G Pave Hawk, we now have the chance to see its successor, the...
Read More F-35s, F-16s Take Part In WIC 2021 at Leewarden Air Base
Our contributor Edwin Schimmel went to Leeuwarden Air Base, the Netherlands, to observe the...
Read More Let’s Talk About The New B-21 Raider Rendering And Fact Sheet Released By The U.S. Air Force
The rendering shows the new B-21 Raider stealth bomber at Edwards Air Force Base, where it will be...
Read More A Deep Dive Into BriteCloud Advanced Expendable Active Decoy
BriteCloud is the first expendable DRFM decoy that can be employed like standard chaffs and...
Read More Germany Signs Deal To Purchase Five P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft
The P-8A Poseidon will replace the ageing P-3C Orion until the new Franco-German Maritime Airborne...
Read More NATO Conducts ADEX (Air Defense Exercise) In Black Sea
NATO holds an ADEX (Air Defense Exercise) in the Black Sea region, where tension with Russia has...
Read More Belgian F-16 Damaged in Ground Incident At Leeuwarden AB. Pilot Successfully Ejected.
A Belgian Air Force F-16 hit a building shortly after start-up. On Jul. 1, 2021, a BAF (Belgian...
Read More It’s Official Now: Switzerland Has Chosen The F-35 As The Next Swiss Air Force Fighter
The Swiss Federal Council announced Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II is the aircraft selected...
Read More Dutch Government Agrees To Sell 12 F-16s To Draken International For Use In Adversary Role In The U.S.
Draken International is about to expand its fleet of fighter jets already used for Combat Air...
Read More The Italian Air Force Unveils First HH-139A Helicopter In Special Color Scheme
The special colored HH-139A celebrates the 90th anniversary of the 15° Stormo. On Jun. 29, 2021,...
Read More Russian Su-30SM With Kh-31 Supersonic Missiles “Harassed” Dutch Frigate In Black Sea
The Dutch MOD said the Russian jets carried out mock attacks on HNLMS Evertsen frigate in the...
Read More F-35B From British Aircraft Carrier Had A Close Encounter With A Russian Navy Warship In The Eastern Med Sea
A Russian exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, involving five warships as well as Tu- 142MK,...
Read More Swiss PC-21 Trainers Deploy For Training Exchange With The Italian Air Force
Six Swiss PC-21 trainers will stay for ten days in southern Italy to train with the 61st Wing,...
Read More HH-60G Pilot Gives Incredibly Detailed Walkaround Tour Of The Pave Hawk
41st Rescue Squadron’s pilot Captain White shares with us his extensive knowledge of the HH-60G...
Read More Leszno Antidotum Airshow 2021 Report
Leszno Airshow: A Hidden, yet Growing Gem of the European Airshows Calendar. Between Jun. 17 and...
Read More Watch This: Antonov An-225 Mriya, World’s Heaviest Aircraft, Breaks Perimeter Fence At RAF Brize Norton
This is what happens when you are a bit too close to an An-225 Mriya. Designed at the end of Cold...
Read More Israel Tested An Airborne Laser To Shoot Down Drones
The Israeli airborne laser prototype achieved a 100% success rate against target drones over the...
Read More Russia Claims It Fired Warning Shots, Dropped Bombs At British Warship In Black Sea. UK MOD Denies.
The tension is high in the Black Sea area, where Russia says it fired warning shots at British...
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Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems reach agreement on LRASM contract for missile seekers
BAE Systems, a global leader in electronic warfare, announced on Jul. 26 that it has received a...
Read More Saab shipped second aft airframe section of T-7A Red Hawk trainer
Swedish defense company Saab announced that it has shipped its second aft airframe section, which...
Read More U.S. Special Forces evaluates strike capabilities of Coyote aircraft
Private contractor Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced that it has demonstrated the...
Read More Lockheed Martin rolls out first C-130J slated for German Air Force
Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp rolled out the first C-130J Super Hercules...
Read More Hellenic Air Force receives first Rafale fighter on order from Dassault Aviation
The Greek Air Force, better known as Hellenic Air Force (HAF), has received first Rafale fighter...
Read More Russia’s new “Checkmate” ripped from Northrop’s Low Cost Fighter concept
Russia is develioping a new single-engine, stealth fighter jet under the project name...
Read More France confirms Mirage 2000 crashed in northern Mali
A French Air Force Mirage 2000D fighter jet has crashed in northern Mali on Tuesday due to a...
Read More Turkey’s Baykar reveals its future unmanned combat aircraft
A Turkish drone maker will combine its skillset in advanced technology weapons, autonomous systems...
Read More U.S. intelligence calls new Russian fighter jet a “Screamer”
A U.S. intelligence source said the service has given the next-generation Russian single-engine...
Read More U.S. Air Force demonstrates automatic takeoff and landing capability of its combat drones
The U.S. Air Force has successfully performed the first fully automatic takeoff and landing of...
Read More Russia’s newest fighter jet spotted near Moscow
A Russian next-generation single-engine fighter jet has been spotted at the Zhukovsky...
Read More U.S. Air Force sent group of B-52 bombers to Indo-Pacific
The U.S. Air Force announced that it has sent a group of U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses,...
Read More Russia says fighter jet intercepts U.S. nuclear-capable bombers over Bering Sea
U.S. Air Force nuclear-capable bombers were intercepted and escorted by Russian fighter jets...
Read More U.S. Air Force recon jet escorted by Russian fighter over the Black Sea
A U.S. Air Force RC-135 strategic reconnaissance aircraft was escorted by a Russian Aerospace...
Read More U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons arrives in Bulgaria
The U.S. Air Force has deployed F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to Graf Ignatievo Air Base in...
Read More Russia teases new military aircraft ahead of MAKS 2021 airshow
Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of the state tech corporation Rostec) is waiting...
Read More Johns Hopkins University receives new nuclear weapons research contract
Johns Hopkins University has received a potential ten-year, $530 million contract to provide...
Read More Ukrainian startup unveils new family of armed drones
Ukraine-based startup UADCOM developed a low-cost, light family of armed drones designed for the...
Read More IAI unveils latest loitering munition at DEFEA in Greece
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) revealed their latest weapon systems at the DEFEA Exhibition...
Read More House appropriators want to cut Air Force’s hypersonic weapon procurement
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee is recommending cutting spending to the procurement...
Read More U.S. spy planes intercepted by Russian fighter jets over Black Sea
U.S. surveillance aircraft planes were intercepted and escorted by Russian fighter jets during a...
Read More Russian Aerospace Forces tests offensive option in Arctic
The Russian Aerospace Forces hold massive air exercises in the Arctic region, according to a...
Read More What will the U.S. Air Force bomber of the future look like?
The new stealth U.S. Air Force B-21 bomber, also known as Raider, has taken yet another key...
Read More Albania to buy Turkish-made combat drones
Albania has decided to purchase armed Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aircraft, which has been used to...
Read More NATO scrambles jets 15 times to track Russian military planes over the Baltic
NATO scrambled fighter jets, which deployed at Lithuania’s Zokniai airbase on a rotary basis, 15...
Read More NATO holds large-scale Air Defence exercises in the Black Sea
On July 2, NATO Air and Maritime forces conducted an Air Defence Exercise (ADEX) in the Black Sea...
Read More New U.S. Air Force tanker reaches 5000-sortie milestone
The U.S. Air Force has announced that its high-tech KC-46A refueling tanker reached the 5000...
Read More F-35 global fighter fleet reaches 400,000 flight hours
The F-35 Lightning II fifth-generation stealth fighter global fleet has reached an outstanding...
Read More Northrop Grumman delivers ESPAStar-D spacecraft bus for Air Force NTS-3 mission
Defense giant Northrop Grumman Corp. announced that it has successful delivered an ESPAStar-D...
Read More Russia deploys Su-35S heavy fighters to Kamchatka peninsula
Russian Armed Forces are to deploy an additional fighter squadron on the Kamchatka peninsula,...
Read More Raytheon gets $2 billion contract for new nuclear cruise missile
Raytheon, an aerospace and defense giant based in Waltham, Massachusetts, has won a $2 billion...
Read More Seven U.S. Air Force EC-130H jamming planes do the “Elephant Walk” in Arizona
The U.S. Air Force 55th Electronic Combat Group based at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona...
Read More Ukraine to supply Turkey with engines for heavy combat helicopter
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has signed an agreement with the Ukrainian company Motor Sich...
Read More BAE Systems to supply modern electronic warfare systems for F-35
BAE Systems announced on Monday that it is providing Lockheed Martin with additional electronic...
Read More U.S. State Department approves possible $2.43B sale of F-16 jets to Philippines
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Pentagon’s top arms broker, announced that the U.S....
Read More Japanese military jet intercepts Russian Su-25 Frogfoot attack aircraft
The Japan Ministry of Defense said on Saturday fighter jets had intercepted and escorted Russian...
Read More Russia deploys Foxhounds carrying huge hypersonic missile to Syria
Russian Aerospace Forces MiG-31 interceptors — dubbed Foxhound — have deployed to Khmeimim Air...
Read More Philippine Air Force S-70i helicopter crashes in Capas killing 6 people on board
A Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk combat utility helicopter of the Philippine Air Force crashed on...
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