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Italian Air Force F-35s train at Aviano during exercise Astral Knight 2021

7 June 2021

For the first time ever, two Italian air force F-35 Lightning IIs, assigned to the 32nd Wing, Amendola Air Base,...

Maiden flight for the 18th Royal Netherlands Air Force F-35A, the tenth assembled in Italy at the FACO in Cameri

17 May 2021

With the delivery of the 200th F-35 produced for the international partners of the Joint Strike Fighter program on May...

Iniochos 2021: Hellenic Air Force organised the 6th international edition of its medium-scale air-exercise

17 May 2021

After the cancelation last year due to COVID-19 and despite the ongoing epidemy, the Hellenic Air Force organised successfully this...

NATO Baltic Air Policing: Italy launches first intercept with F-35A

15 May 2021

n the early morning of May 14, the Italian Air Force F-35 pilots deployed to Ämari Air Base, Estonia, supporting...

Royal Air Force Typhoons of No. IX(B) in Romania

Third Royal Air Force deployment with Eurofighters to enhance NATO Air Policing in Romania

30 April 2021

NATO officially certified the Royal Air Force Typhoon detachment ready to conduct enhanced Air Policing alongside the Romanian Air Force....

USAF F-16C aircraft from 31st Fighter Wing arrive in Greece for exercise Iniochos 21

7 April 2021

U.S. Air Force Airmen and F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base, Italy, arrived...

US AFRL successfully completes XQ-58A Valkyrie flight and payload release test

6 April 2021

The US Air Force Research Laboratory successfully completed the XQ-58A Valkyrie’s sixth flight test and first release from its internal...

US Navy places order for more 11 additional Boeing P-8A Poseidon submarine hunters aircraft to patrol the globe

3 April 2021

The U.S. Navy today awarded Boeinga $1.6 billion production contract for the next 11 P-8A Poseidon aircraft. Nine aircraft will...

Tyndall AFB selected to host three US Air Force F-35A squadrons

3 April 2021

A Record of Decision was issued by the U.S. Air Force, making Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, the official location...

ACC’s U-2 Federal Laboratory rapidly integrates Platform One in first weapons system flight

3 April 2021

Air Combat Command’s U-2 Federal Laboratory at Beale executed the first rapid, successful in-flight test of Platform One capabilities on...

UK and Qatar expand defence partnership with a new joint RAF & QEAF Hawk training squadron

3 April 2021

As part of the agreement, RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire will become the British base for the new UK-Qatar joint...

Tenth Leonardo helicopter AW101 All-Weather Search and Rescue “SAR Queen” successfully delivered to Norway

17 March 2021

Despite the challenges posed by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Leonardo has successfully delivered the tenth AW101 All-Weather Search and Rescue...

USAF exercise Red Flag 21-2 underway at Nellis AFB

9 March 2021

Exercise Red Flag 21-2 underway at Nellis AFB, one of the U.S. Air Force’s largest combat training exercises. The 57th...

Maiden flight for the 17th Royal Netherlands Air Force F-35A from italian FACO in Cameri

7 March 2021

A little over a month after the first flight of the sixteenth F-35A destined for the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (Royal Netherlands...

USS Eisenhower with US and Morocco military aircraft

USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group operates with Morocco in exercise Lightning Handshake

6 March 2021

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKE CSG) is participating in Lightning Handshake, a bi-lateral maritime exercise between...

The USAF Golden Horde Vanguard Collaborative Small Diameter Bombs

US Air Force Research Laboratory completes Golden Horde collaborative Small Diameter Bomb second flight test

6 March 2021

The US Air Force Golden Horde Vanguard program successfully completed a second flight test of its collaborative weapon technologies using...

Complex multinational Air-Maritime exercise strengthens NATO cohesion from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea

6 March 2021

Aircraft and ships from multiple Allied nations conducted a complex multi-domain mission stretching from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea,...

US strategic bombers B-1Bs fly first mission from Norway

26 February 2021

U.S. B-1B Lancers, from the 7th Bomb Wing, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, flew their first Bomber Task Force mission...

US F-16 Fighting Falcon participated in an Agile Combat Employment exercise with Italian F-35As and Eurofighters

20 February 2021

U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons and Airmen assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing participated in an Agile Combat Employment...

US Air Force names “Valkyries” first overseas and UK-based F-35A squadron

16 February 2021

The 48th Fighter Wing has selected a new nickname for the first U.S. Air Force overseas-based F-35A Lightning II squadron. The wing solicited help...

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