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The Royal Danish Air Force Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the F-16 in Denmark
The anniversary was marked by two formation flights of 10 F-16s over the country. On Jan. 17,...
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Let’s Talk About The Israeli F-35I Adir That Appeared (Again) on Flight Tracking Websites
F-35s can be tracked online almost daily. However, the fact that the IDF allowed journalists to...
Read More Take A Look At The Crazy Cool Shots Of A Dutch KDC-10 Tanker Refueling Polish F-16s Taken With A Telescope
Here are some great aerial refueling shots taken with a telescope. To maintain currency the pilots...
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Here’s Northrop Grumman’s Submission For the EA-18G Growler’s Next-Gen Jammer Low-Band Pod
The NGJ-LB system will replace the current, aging AN/ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System (TJS). The NGJ...
Read More Another “Phantastic” Video Shows The Japanese Phantoms Flying The First Sorties Of Their Last Operational Year
Here are the F-4EJ and RF-4E/EJ jets launching from Hyakuri at the beginning of their last...
Read More The Israeli Air Force Has Inaugurated Its Second F-35I Adir Squadron
The 116th Squadron “Lions of the South”, based at Nevatim in southern Israel, is the...
Read More A (Very Windy!) Interview with Blue Angels Boss About Super Hornet Transition
We Asked Capt. Eric Doyle About How Super Hornets Will Change Blue Angel Demo. Despite a gusty...
Read More Egyptian Air Force Stages “Elephant Walk” With 16 MiG-29M/M2 Fulcrum Jets
Here are some cool images of more than a dozen Egyptian Fulcrums taking part in a readiness...
Read More Leonardo Awarded Contract For U.S. Navy’s New TH-73A Training Helicopter
The helicopter, based on the commercial AW119, will replace the TH-57 Sea Ranger. The U.S. Navy...
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Israeli Air Force’s F-16s Damaged By Flooding at Hatzor Airbase
The IAF is now investigating why the Baraks weren’t moved from their underground hangars...
Read More Take A Look At This Glorious Footage Of The Last Japanese Kawasaki C-1 Transport Aircraft At Work
The JASDF transport aircraft at work at Iruma Air Base. Developed beginning in 1966 with...
Read More Iran Admits to Mistakenly Shooting Down Ukrainian 737 With Anti-Aircraft Missile.
International Pressure and Mounting Intelligence Data Force Iran’s Admission. According to...
Read More Enjoy These Close Up Shots Of The 160th SOAR’s MH-47G’s New Laser Countermeasures System
The Chinooks of the “Night Stalkers” have received the new AN/AAQ-24 large aircraft...
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A Brief History of Airliner Shoot-Down Incidents (and Hoaxes).
Let’s Examine the Dangerous History of Civil Airliner Shoot-Downs by The Military. As we...
Read More Iran State TV Releases Video of Ballistic Missile Launches on U.S. Targets in Iraq as Airliner Shoot-Down Story Breaks.
Exchange Begins as Competing Stories About Iranian Strikes and Airliner Shoot-Down Reach Media...
Read More “Iran Likely Shot Down Ukrainian Airliner Near Tehran” US Defense Officials Say
Western officials are confident that Iran fired two surface to air missiles that brought down the...
Read More Ukrainian 737 Crashes Shortly After Take Off From Tehran. Unverified Video Of Airliner Going Down Fuels Speculations.
Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 has crashed in Tehran. The incident occurred few hours...
Read More Iran Launches Ballistic Missile Attack on U.S. Military and Coalition Forces in Iraq.
Sources Unclear on Specific Weapons and Targets, But Say At Least Two Waves of Attacks Have Been...
Read More First Two Of Six B-52 Bombers Deploying To Diego Garcia Amid Growing Tensions With Iran
The strategic bombers and their support tankers could be tracked online as they moved from...
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52 F-35A Jets Take Part In Massive “Elephant Walk” At Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
The active duty 388th and Reserve 419th Fighter Wings conducted an F-35A Elephant Walk with 52...
Read More Shocking Images Show What It Is Like To Fly In Skies Turned Red By Deadly Australian Bushfires
Royal Australian Air Force C-130Js and C-27Js are flying evacuation and relief missions in skies...
Read More Iran Begins Cyber Attacks Against U.S. Government Websites, Leaves Nuclear Deal.
Raft of Low Level Attacks Defaces Home Pages and Brings Down Websites. A series of low-level...
Read More Somali Terrorist Group Attacks Manda Bay Airfield, Kenya, Destroying U.S. Shadowy Surveillance Aircraft
Everything we know about the terrorist attack on “Camp Simba”, Kenya, and the U.S....
Read More What Are Iran’s Capabilities to Retaliate Against the U.S. Forces After Soleimani Strike?
Iran’s Limited Conventional Response Capabilities May Have Ominous Implications. Behind the...
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Online Flight Tracking Provides A Look At The US Build Up In Middle East Following the Attack on US Embassy In Iraq
Here’s everything we know about the deployment that followed the attack on the US embassy in...
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Behold The Cool Vertical Photograph Of The B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Doing The Rose Bowl Game Flyover Yesterday
B-2A “Death 11” over the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena. On January 1, 2020, a U.S. Air...
Read More Kelly Johnson Talks About His Greatest Creation, The SR-71 Blackbird, In This Must Watch, Uncut Interview
Enjoy a walkaround of the Blackbird with legendary engineer Kelly Johnson. Clarence Leonard...
Read More Wild Rumors Of First Su-57 Export Sale Spread As Details From Earlier “Felon” Crash Emerge
Unofficial reports of Algeria buying Su-57 Felons seem only to distract attention from recent...
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Russia Deploys Long Range Hypersonic Missile System “Invulnerable to Intercept”.
Avangard Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Claimed to Fly at “Mach 27”, Carries MIRVs (Multiple...
Read More Here Are All The Interesting Things You Can Find In The VFA-102 Diamondbacks 2019 Cruise Video
Stunning cockpit footage aside, there are lots of interesting things in the latest Diamondbacks...
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The Indian Air Force Has Just Bid Farewell To The MiG-27 “Bahadur” Swing-Wing Fighter
IAF has retired its last “Swing-Wing” fighter. The last Indian Air Force unit to be...
Read More Tu-22M3 Backfire Engine’s Transition From Idle to Full Reheat Captured In Stunning Detail
A really interesting video showing the Backfire and its Kuznetsov NK-25 engines at work. The video...
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Sayonara Phantoms! Hyakuri Air Festival retrospective
All the highlights of a memorable airshow. During the first weekend of December the Japanese Air...
Read More Russian 5th generation Sukhoi Su-57 “Felon” Crashes During Testing, Pilot Reported Safe.
Fourth Significant Accident for Russian Military Aviation in December. A Russian Sukhoi Su-57,...
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Final (for now) Eurofighter Typhoon Delivered to the German Air Force
The Luftwaffe received 143 Eurofighters but 38 more could be arriving in future. The German Air...
Read More Polish Special Ops Component Receives S-70i Black Hawk Helicopters
Poland special forces have received four Black Hawks helicopters. Last Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, Head...
Read More On This Day in 1964, the Legendary Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Flew For the First Time.
The first flight of an SR-71 took place 55 years ago today. It was the first aircraft to feature...
Read More On This Day In 1970 The Grumman F-14 Tomcat Made Its First Flight
It’s the 49th Anniversary of the Turkey’s first flight. On Dec. 21, 1970, the first...
Read More These Images Show A Texas ANG’s F-16C Wearing A Slightly Modified “Have Glass V” Paint Scheme
Check out these interesting shots of a Viper from the 149th Fighter Wing with the...
Read More The First MH-139A Has Been Delivered to the U.S. Air Force and Named “Grey Wolf”
The new helicopter will replace the venerable UH-1N and protect ICBM facilities. The US Air Force...
Read More First Navy CMV-22B Osprey in COD (Carrier Onboard Delivery) High-Visibility Color Scheme Makes Maiden Flight
Here are the first images of the aircraft that will replace the Grumman C-2A Greyhound COD...
Read More NATO Receives Second RQ-4D “Phoenix” Remotely Piloted Vehicle At Sigonella Air Base, Italy.
The second of five RQ-4D Global Hawk has arrived at its new homebase in Sigonella, Italy, after a...
Read More China’s Second Aircraft Carrier Type 002 “Shandong” Commissioned With The Chinese Navy
The ship, a modified Kuznetsov-class design, is China’s first domestically built aircraft...
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U.S. Air Force deploys Reaper remotely piloted aircraft to Romania
The U.S. Air Force announced that it deployed some MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft to...
Read More Saab starts assembly production in support of U.S. Air Force’s T-7A Red Hawk program
Swedish aerospace and defense firm Saab has announced that it started assembly production on...
Read More F-35 fighters were used as sensors for Integrated Air and Missile Defense interceptors
Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp, has announced that its newest F-35...
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Bell, Boeing officially unveils latest version of Osprey tiltrotor
Boeing and Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. unveiled the latest version of Osprey tiltrotor, that...
Read More Russian Foreign Minister: at least six F-35 fighters were spotted near Iranian border
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made an ambiguous statement regarding Iran’s downing...
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U.S. Navy patrol squadron concludes maritime operations in the Arctic
The U.S. Navy announced that Patrol Squadron (VP) 4 recently concluded maritime operations in the...
Read More DARPA’s Gremlins program achieves key developmental milestone
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Dynetics have achieved a significant...
Read More Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant helicopter hits 100 knots
The Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant coaxial helicopter flew more than 100 knots in a Jan. 13 flight...
Read More U.S. Air Force leverages robots to strip paint from venerable A-10 Thunderbolt II
Robotic media blasting used to strip paint from fighter aircraft such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon...
Read More Boeing performs Chinook Block II flight test with new rotor blades
U.S. aerospace giant Boeing performed the flight test of its Chinook Block II helicopter with the...
Read More U.S. Air Force develops unique directed energy weapon
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has developed a unique directed energy weapon demonstrator...
Read More U.S. Air Force remove nuclear gravity bombs from B-52H approved weapons configuration
The director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, Hans...
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U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft conducts flight operations
U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft conduct flight operations aboard the amphibious...
Read More U.S. Air Force achieves significant milestone with new X-60A air-launched rocket
The U.S Air Force has achieved a significant milestone with the development of the new...
Read More U.S. Navy completes first flight of F/A-18 Super Hornet equipped with new long-range sensor
For the first time, Boeing and the U.S. Navy flew an F/A-18 Super Hornet equipped with an Infrared...
Read More Lockheed won a DARPA contract for new ground-launched hypersonic missile
Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp, has won a contract valued at as much...
Read More Boeing also submit proposal for Germany’s new heavy lift helicopter
U.S. aerospace giant Boeing, as well as Sikorsky and Rheinmetall, has submitted its response to...
Read More Pentagon awards $43 million contract modification for Navy Hawkeye aircraft upgrade
The U.S. Department of Defense and Lockheed Martin announced an agreement worth about $43 million...
Read More Lockheed Martin says four nations will be protected with next generation radar
Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp said on Tuesday that through...
Read More Lockheed Martin gets $32.9 million for Taiwan’s F-16 fighters upgrade
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Lockheed Martin a $32.9 million hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee...
Read More Sikorsky, Rheinmetall submit proposal for Germany’s new heavy lift helicopter
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), and Rheinmetall representing the German industry...
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Lockheed announces newest mega-contract for 50 Super Hercules aircraft
Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp announced on Monday that it will...
Read More U.S. Air Force contracts Raytheon for AMRAAM missile production
Raytheon Co., one of the world’s largest defense contractors, has been awarded a $10,6...
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U.S. Air National Guard F-16 fighters receive new APG-83 radar
Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that the U.S. Air Force has completed installation of...
Read More U.S. Air Force to cancel Raytheon’s troubled contract for new ground-based radar system
The U.S. Air Force wants to cancel Raytheon’s troubled contract for a new ground-based radar...
Read More U.S. confirms possible F-35 sale to Singapore
The U.S. State Department on 9 January approved the possible Foreign Military Sale of F-35B Short...
Read More U.S. Air Force taps ArmorSource for 24300 Next Generation Ballistic Helmets
A leading U.S. manufacturer of ballistic helmets, advanced head protection products, ArmorSource...
Read More Ukrainian passenger jet crashed after being hit by Iranian Tor-M1 missile
Ukrainian passenger jet probably crashed after being hit by a Russian-made Tor-M1 missile over...
Read More U.S. Air Force put dozens of F-35 fighter jets into the air
The U.S. Air Force has announced that the active duty 388th and Reserve 419th Fighter Wings...
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Russian-made Ka-52 and Apache helicopters meet face-to-face in Egypt
Russian-made Kamov Ka-52 and AH-64D Apache attack helicopters of Egyptian Air Force were spotted...
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Somali terrorist group destroyed U.S. spy aircraft in an attack on military base in Kenya
Al Shabab, the Somali terrorist group, on Sunday attacked a military base in Kenya that is used by...
Read More U.S. Air Force deploys Patriot surface-to-air missile systems to Middle East
The U.S. Air Force reportedly is deploying Patriot PAC-3 surface-to-air missile systems to the...
Read More U.S. Air Force releases amazing B-2 stealth bomber video
The U.S. Air Force has released the amazing video of the Whiteman Air Force Base’s B-2...
Read More U.S. Air Force awards $768 million contract to Raytheon for AMRAAM missiles
The U.S. Department of Defense and Raytheon Company announced an agreement worth about $768...
Read More Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier gets $2.35 billion contracts in final days of 2019
Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp closed out the calendar year with five...
Read More Pentagon awards $1,9 billion contract for F-35 logistics services
The US Department of Defense has contracted Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin...
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Top 10 U.S. military news of 2019: NASA to buy rifles, Boeing unveils F-15EX, scientists develops liquid metal and more
NASA will acquire semi-automatic rifles, a mysterious version of Abrams tank was spotted in...
Read More Greece awards $280 million contract to Lockheed Martin for upgrade of its F-16 fighter jet fleet
The Greek government has awarded a $280 million contract to Lockheed Martin Corporation to upgrade...
Read More Boeing awarded new contract for AH-64E Apache helicopters for U.S., allies
U.S. aerospace giant Boeing said on Thursday it had got orders from three nations to provide...
Read More South Korea receives first RQ-4B spy unmanned aircraft
South Korea military received its first advanced high-altitude unmanned aircraft, RQ-4B Global...
Read More U.S. Air Force newest aerial refueling tanker completes first around-the-world flight
A new U.S. Air Force KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tanker completed first around-the-world...
Read More U.S. Navy awards Raytheon $112 million Miniature Air Launch Decoy contract
Raytheon Company was awarded a U.S. Navy contract for the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy –...
Read More Boeing receives $400M for B-1 and B-52 bomber engineering service
U.S. aerospace giant Boeing has been awarded a $400 million U.S. Air Force contract modification...
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Israel receives ex-U.S. Marine Corps helicopters
The Israeli Air Force has received the new batch of the ex-U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 heavy-lift...
Read More India looks to buy 6 more AH-64E Apache heavy attack helicopters
The Indian government is set to exercise an option to buy additional AH-64E heavy attack...
Read More U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter shot down small drone
The U.S. Air Force has reported that F-16 fighter jets from the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron...
Read More 388th Fighter Wing received its final F-35A Lightning II
The 388th Fighter Wing received its final F-35A Lightning II on Dec. 17. The delivery brings...
Read More Pentagon announce $1 billion F-16’s AESA radars order
Pentagon announced that Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $1 billion U.S. Air Force contract...
Read More U.S. Air Force awards Lockheed Martin with $7 billion contract for F-22 sustainment
The top-grossing defense firm in the world, Lockheed Martin has been awarded a modification to a...
Read More U.S. Air Force awards contract to Raytheon for delivery of 95 infrared Maverick units
The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a...
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Navy’s Osprey Enters Flight Test
Bell Boeing has flown the first example of the CMV-22B Osprey, a version of the tiltrotor tailored...
Read More First Flight for Falco Xplorer
Leonardo’s largest remotely piloted air system (RPAS) to date, the Falco Xplorer, made its...
Read More Gremlins Air Vehicle Takes Flight
Dynetics undertook the first flight of its X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV) in November last year,...
Read More Russia Considers Redundant Jetliners for Anti-Sub Role
The Russian navy has prepared a revised specification for a next-generation anti-submarine warfare...
Read More Naval LCA Goes to Sea
Having completed extensive trials at the Indian Navy Shore Based Test Facility (SBTF) in Goa, the...
Read More Dassault and Thales Awarded Archange Contract
France’s Direction Générale de l’Armament (DGA) has awarded a contract...
Read More Leonardo Wins US Navy Helo Trainer Deal
The U.S. Navy has selected Leonardo’s TH-119 as its new training helicopter, the company...
Read More State Department Approves F-35B for Singapore
The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced that the State Department has approved the...
Read More First S-350 Vityaz SAM Delivered to Russia
The Russian defense ministry has taken delivery of a first set of the S-350 Vityaz surface-to-air...
Read More Marshall Lands Kuwait KC-130 Support Contract
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group (ADG) will provide MRO (maintenance, repair, overhaul)...
Read More First F-35A Base Achieves Full Warfighting Capability
With the delivery in December of the 78th combat-coded Lockheed Martin F-35A to Hill AFB, Utah,...
Read More India Appoints Integrated Defense Chief
Following a delay of nearly two decades, the restructuring of the Indian military services is...
Read More Piaggio Wins Avanti Evo+ Order for the Italian Air Force
Piaggio Aerospace has won a nearly $221 million (€200 million) contract from the Italian...
Read More Indonesia Launches Domestically-built Armed UAV Program
State-owned Indonesian aerospace company PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) unveiled a domestically...
Read More F-35 Deliveries Exceed 2019 Target
Lockheed Martin delivered the 134th and last F-35 of 2019 on December 30. The number exceeded by...
Read More MiG-27 Bows Out of IAF Service
The Indian Air Force has retired its last squadron of Mikoyan MiG-27s. The aircraft was formally...
Read More More ‘Thunder’ in China’s Air
December saw the ceremonial rollout of the first batch of eight two-seat, dual-control JF-17B...
Read More New Beginnings for the Eurofighter Typhoon
On December 23 Eurofighter Instrumented Series Production Aircraft (ISPA) 6 made its first flight...
Read More First Crash for Su-57 To Delay Service Entry
A Sukhoi Su-57 fighter crashed on December 24 some 120 km (65 nm) from the Dzemgi aerodrome shared...
Read More Flying the Augmented Skies with Red 6
Imagine you’re a new military pilot about to refuel in the air, the first time on your own...
Read More Kazakhstan Becoming a Regional Aircraft Industry/Service Hub
As Kazakhstan’s latest move to become the region’s most important aircraft...
Read More Singapore to Establish Permanent Guam Detachment
On December 7, Singapore defense minister Dr Ng Eng Hen and his U.S. counterpart Mark Esper signed...
Read More Embraer and FAB Launch Military Transport Study
Embraer and the Força Aérea Brasileira (FAB, Brazilian air force) signed a...
Read More Israel Seeks New US Aircraft
Emboldened by strengthened U.S. support under the Trump presidency, Israel is making plans to...
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