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RAF’s Dambusters squadron reforms to fly F-35 fighter jets

The squadron immortalised by the Dambusters raid of World War II has been reformed to fly the UK’s new F-35 fighter jets, the Defence Secretary has announced. Gavin Williamson announced the new 617 Squadron aft... Read More...

Norwegian F-35A conducts in-air drag chute testing

The F-35 Integrated Test Flight team at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. recently completed in-air deployments of the Norwegian Drag Chute System. The drag chute is unique to Norwegian F-35A aircraft and rapidly... Read More...

Australia has taken delivery of the first F-35As with Block 3F software

Australia has taken delivery of three new F-35A aircraft with Block 3F software from Lockheed Martin reaching an important milestone. The F-35A combat aircraft will provide Australia with a fifth-generation fi... Read More...

Exercise Frisian Flag 2018: more than 70 NATO military aircraft in the Netherlands

From April 8 to 20, Leeuwarden Air Base in the north of the Netherlands will be the venue for the international live-fly fighter Exercise Frisian Flag 2018. More than 70 military aircraft from Dutch Host Nation... Read More...

Yakovlev Design Bureau test pilots set world records with Yak-130

Fédération Aéronautique Internationale registered the records set by the test pilots of Yakovlev Design Bureau flying Yak-130 combat trainer. The batch of the record flights was performed at the airfield of ... Read More...

Exercise Iniochos 2018

From Monday the 12 of March, to Friday the 23rd, 2018, the Medium-sized Multinational Aviation Exercise INIOCHOS 2018" takes place in Greece. The objective of the exercise is to provide realistic operational... Read More...

Video: F-35B from USMC 31st MEU join USS Wasp for historic deployment

A detachment of F-35B Lightning IIs with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, landed on the USS Wasp (LHD-1) on March 5, marking the beginning of the F-35B’s first operational dep... Read More...

Norway completed a successful F-35 drag chute system test

While the US Air Force is completing another round of cold-weather testing of the F-35A at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, Norway completed a successful verification of the F-35 drag chute system at Ørland Ai... Read More...

The modernized Mig-29 Fulcrums of 23 BLT Polish Air Force

Sily Powietrzne (Polish Air Force) received its first MiG 29 in 1989, equipping the 1 ELT (Eskadra Lotnictwa Taktycznego) based in Minsk Mazowiecki, 45Km far from Warszawa. Between 1995-96 other 10 MiG 29 arriv... Read More...

Russia to sign contract for 12 new Su-57 stealth fighter jets

According to the Russian news agency TASS, Russia’s defence ministry plans to sign a contract for a pre-production batch of fifth-generation Su-57 stealth fighter jets. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri B... Read More...

China’s most advanced stealth fighter jet J-20 formally in service with PLAAF

China's most advanced stealth fighter jet, J-20, has been formally armed by the People's Liberation Army Air Force, and a military expert said this act will totally break the US' and its allies' monopoly on ste... Read More...

Russia: the updated versions of the Tu-160 bomber and the Il-78 tanker fly for the first time

At the end of January 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin was present in Kazan to attend the first demonstration flight of the updated version of the strategic Tu-160 bomber. In 2015, it was decided to resum... Read More...

Minot B-52s Stratofortress complete UK deployment

Approximately 300 Airmen, four B-52H Stratofortress aircraft and support equipment assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, returned home from their deployment to RAF Fairford, Engla... Read More...

First operational JASDF F-35A at Misawa AB

Blue skies and snowy mountains welcomed the first operational Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-35A Lightning II during an arrival ceremony at Misawa Air Base, Jan. 26. In the upcoming Japanese fiscal year, nin... Read More...

Exercise DACEX 2018: control and defense of the Canary Islands skies

On the 23rd and 24th of January, the DACEX-18 Exercise, organized by the Combat Air Command (MACOM), was developed in the Canary archipelago, with the support of the MACAN Canary Islands Air Command. It is a... Read More...

First F-35B for Italian Naval Aviation

The first Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (STOVL) F-35B Lightning II aircraft, assembled outside the United States, was delivered to the Italian Ministry of Defense and assigned to the Italian Navy at the Final... Read More...

Grappa detachment Ejercito del Aire Sigonella

Return of 82nd Squadron – Wing 46 of Spanish Air Force from the detachment Grappa in Sigonella

The historical evolution of this group goes back sixty-three years, since its origin dates from 1955 with the creation of the 51 Salvation Squadron based in Los Rodeos, equipped with two Sikorsky helicopters (H... Read More...

Portuguese Air Force Alpha Jet flies for the last time

Aircraft was in the service in the Portuguese Air Force from 1993 to January 16th, 2018. Air Base No. 11 in Beja was on January 13 the stage of the last flight of the Dassault / Dornier Alpha-Jet aircraft. T... Read More...

Russian Air Force fighter jets practice landing on highway during military drills

The Su-30M2 fighters and Su-34 bomber of the SMD Air Force and Defence Army’s mixed air formation have practised conveyor aircraft landing on a highway for the first in Rostov region within the flight tactical ... Read More...

Russian Aerospace Forces TU-160 strategic bombers

UK fighter jets intercept Russian bombers approaching british airspace

Yesterday, Monday 15 January 2018, RAF Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) Typhoon aircraft scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth to monitor two Russian strategic bombers approaching UK airspace. The Russian Air Force Blac... Read More...

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