combat aircraft

The fi ve RSAF CH-47Ds based at Oakey will support SAF exercises in Australia, which are increasing in scope and scale. Roy Choo ...

LOSSES Compiled by Tom Kaminski A US Air Force T-38C from the 71st Flying Training Wing crashed in a wooded area near Chester, ...

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T HE ROYAL CANADIAN Air Force recently hosted its 51st Exercise ‘Maple Flag’ at CFB Cold Lake, but it was a low- key a air. Ins ...

Above: With Canada’s planned acquisition of ex-RAAF Hornets to bridge the gap to a new fi ghter, participation by No 75 Squadron ...

The Y-8GX-6 and KQ-200 are providing China’s military with new capabilities, and are becoming available in increased numbers. Na ...

are numbered sequentially from GX-1 to GX-12, they were not revealed in sequential order. Chinese ASW Especially for PLA Naval A ...

Current EW and AEW variants The two new special mission variants are the Y-8GX-8 (Y-9JB ELINT) and the KJ-500H AEW platform. The ...

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An EA-18G Growler with three ALQ-99 pods, all of which will be replaced incrementally under the Next-Generation Jammer project. ...

T HE US NAVY places the airborne electronic attack (AEA) mission higher on the agenda than do any of its sister services in the ...

The electronic attack aircraft community is a tight-knit group and there’s a lot about the mission that people don’t understand ...

FLIGHT TRIALS Raytheon completed initial  ight trials of its Next-Generation Jammer (NGJ) system in 2014. A series of trials cu ...

T HE US NAVY’S force of 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers currently includes nine ships that are capable of deploying as the ...

Navy with a single class of nuclear- powered aircraft carriers. With an overall length of 1,092ft (332.84m), a beam of 134ft (40 ...

15, 1970. The hull was subsequently launched on October 11, 1975 and the vessel was commissioned on October 18, A mid-life RCOH ...

is home-ported at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. CVN 77 serves as the lagship for CSG-2. Ford class Originally referred to as ...

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Advanced construction of CVN 78 began in August 2005, and on January 16, 2007 the US Navy formally a ...

USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) — CSG-2 Carrier Air Wing Eight (CVW-8) AJ Squadron Nickname Aircraft MoDex VFA-31 ‘Tomcatters’ F/ ...

active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar provides ‘beyond the strike group’ coverage and is a key component of the Navy ...