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6 HEADLINE NEWS Russia rolls out upgraded ‘Back re’ and new radar evaluated for Marine Hornets 8 US NEWS Boeing’s F-15X o erin ...

An F/A-18F Super Hornet of VFA- ‘Red Rippers’ lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). US ...

http://www.combataircraft.net // October 2018 05 NO ROOM FOR ERROR Y OU’D STRUGGLE TO  nd a more unforgiving operational enviro ...

‘BACKFIRE’ BOOST Tu-22M3M UPGRADE READY FOR TESTS T HE KAZAN AIRCRAFT factory rolled out the irst modernized Tupolev Tu-22M3M ‘B ...

ALSO THIS MONTH... F-15X breaks cover Boeing ofers USAF a new Eagle. See US News Singaporean Chinooks move Training transfers to ...

Boeing has previously offered the USAF new Eagles and it’s unclear how much appetite there is for F-15X. Boeing EDWARDS EVALUATE ...

the Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS). The airframe would be equipped with strengthened wings and have ...

The A-29 drops a 500lb (227kg) laser guided bomb during a demonstration fl ight over the White Sands Missile Range while partici ...

T HE USAF HAS narrowed its plans for acquiring a new light attack aircraft and will conduct a full and open competition before m ...

RAPTORS IN GERMANY ‘BONEHEADS’ BACK IN EUROPE F 22AS OPERATED BY the 325th Fighter Wing’s 95th Fighter Squadron ‘Boneheads’ arr ...

al-Qaeda, IS, and other insurgents. US operations in Afghanistan have increased this year. In fact, through June, US aircraft ha ...

T HIS YEAR, SEATTLE-TACOMA International Airport — commonly referred to as ‘Sea-Tac’ — celebrates 69 years of service to the com ...

their aircraft to conduct the intercept. Once started, the two Eagles —  ying under the callsign ‘Rock’ — taxied out of the ale ...

as much room to maneuver as possible while mitigating the risk of collision with other aircraft in the area. Even though the con ...

of Puget Sound. As the aircraft cleared the viewpoint of those who witnessed the maneuver, the video then showed a single F-15, ...

BRITISH-CROATIAN ‘FLYING SABRE 18’ EXERCISE T HE JOINT BRITISH CROATIAN ‘Flying Sabre 18’ exercise was held in Croatia from Jul ...

‘Flying Sabre 18’ ended on July 20, with a formation fl ight over Croatia’s capital Zagreb performed by some of the participants ...

SINGAPORE MOVES CHINOOK TRAINING DOWN UNDER T HE REPUBLIC OF Singapore Air Force (RSAF) has concluded 22 years of Chinook traini ...