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The Stratolaunch aircraft took off from Mojave Air and Space Port two years after its maiden flight. The Stratolaunch six-engine jet, the aircraft with the world’s largest wingspan, has just launched from Mojave Air and [...]

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Six F-15E Strike Eagles relocated as part of an Agile Combat Employment operation, in “Bomb Truck” config, each bringing 12 JDAMs and 4 SDBs. Just two months after it was tested at Eglin Air Force [...]

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The RDAF (Royal Danish Air Force) F-16 Fighting Falcons are being painted in dark grey. In October 2020, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Flyvevåbnet (Royal Danish Air Force), the F-16AM serial E-005 was [...]

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USMC F-35Bs have arrived at RAF Lakenheath to deploy aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth. Split into two sections, each including 5 jets, a total of 10 USMC F-35Bs aircraft have arrived at RAF Lakenheath, UK. The [...]

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The special color Eurofighter Typhoon will attend NTM (NATO Tiger Meet) in Beja, Portugal. The Italian Air Force has just published some images of the Eurofighter Typhoon in special color scheme the service is sending [...]

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Chinese Navy on A Tear to Assert Global Reach with New Carriers and Warships. While the Chinese military has been on a tear of introducing new weapons systems and platforms, this past week was remarkable [...]

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The United States Navy Blue Angels 75th anniversary season kicks off with their “new” F/A-18E/F Super Hornets at SUN n’ FUN 2021. Officially known as the SUN n’ FUN Aerospace Expo, the famous airshow held [...]

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For the first time, five Russian Navy Il-38 and Il-38N aircraft have taken part together in an Anti-Submarine Warfare exercise laying sea bottom mines. Russian Navy Il-38 and Il-38N “Dolphin” (NATO reporting name “May”) Anti-Submarine [...]

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The demonstrations were meant to show the S-97 Raider’s agility and the program’s status to the U.S. Army personnel working on the Future Vertical Lift program. Sikorsky demonstrated the S-97 Raider, the company’s development aircraft [...]

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A USAF F-15C Eagle has achieved the longest known air-to-air missile shot ever. While its most advanced variant, the F-15EX (recently officially named the “Eagle II”) was being delivered to the U.S. Air Force getting [...]

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Poland to procure five extra C-130H Hercules aircraft which will be restored out of the “Boneyard” in the Arizona Desert. The Armament Inspectorate of the Polish Ministry of Defense published a release stating that an [...]

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After completing the Sea Trials with the U.S. Marine Corps F-35B, the aircraft carrier Cavour conducted training with a USMC MV-22B Osprey. As already reported, the Italian Navy has recently declared the successful completion of [...]

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The purpose-built pod for the P-8A Poseidon was developed from the experience with the ALE-55 Fiber-Optic Towed Decoy already used by the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. NAVAIR (Naval Air Systems Command) recently announced that a new [...]

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The Department of the Air Force Acquisition biennial report includes a new concept art of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD). In September last year, Dr. Will Roper, the then Assistant Secretary of the Air [...]

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SABER technology is part of a critical upgrade of the Compass Call system that will be rehosted on the EC-37B. BAE Systems successfully flight tested its Small Adaptive Bank of Electronic Resources (SABER) technology for [...]

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The “incriminated” photo of an F-15E pilot with a “Russian Patch” was published by the RAF Lakenheath’s Facebook page in a post about the Exercise Point Blank currently in progress in the UK. The U.S. [...]

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The new South Korean next generation fighter, the KF-21 “Boramae”, appears to be an F-22 look-alike. South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in unveiled the first prototype of the KF-X, the next-generation fighter developed by KAI (Korea [...]

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50 years after it flew for the first time (and 15 years after it was retired by the U.S. Navy), the F-14 Tomcat remains one of the most loved fighters ever. Here are its 100 [...]

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The name for the newest aircraft of the U.S. Air Force has been announced today during the official rollout ceremony: F-15EX “Eagle II”. Today the U.S. Air Force held an official rollout ceremony at Eglin [...]

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An NF-5 of the Turkish Air Force aerobatic display team Turkish Stars” has crashed at Konya. An NF-5 aircraft, belonging to the Turkish Air Force demonstration team “Türk Yıldızları” (Turkish Stars) crashed on Wednesday, Apr. [...]

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