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UK’S FINAL MILITARY SEA KINGS RETIRED THE ROYAL NAVY retired its last Sea King ASaC7 (SKASaC) airborne surveillance and control ...

A Su-27UBM1 (Bort 70) operated by the Ukrainian Air Force crashed on October 16 during a training sortie as part of Exercise ‘C ...

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T HE PRODUCTS OFFERED by Guizhou and Hongdu range from primary trainers up to the latest fourth-generation trainers. First in li ...

(PLAAF) in 2007 for further trials and operational deliveries began in 2011 — PLA Naval Aviation received its initial JL-9H soon ...

FTC-2000S versions. The  rst aircraft rolled o the assembly line in June 2017 and the initial batch was delivered the followin ...

The  rst prototype L-15 AJT was completed in September 2005 and its  rst  ight was completed — after delays due to engine pro ...

T HE TORNADO INTERDICTOR Strike (IDS) variant and its less proliic Air Defence Variant (ADV) derivative were both exported to Sa ...

The Royal Saudi Air Force has clocked up 32 years of Tornado operations. Combat Aircraft looks back at the story of how the coun ...

dispensers, Sea Eagle anti-ship missiles and ALARM anti-radar missiles. The supply of ALARM was initially denied, and pictures o ...

Above: A Tornado four-ship prepares to depart Dhahran in 1991. Ian Black Below right: The 75th Squadron deployed eight aircraft ...

In September 2006, British newspapers estimated the cost of TSP at £2.5 billion (about $4.66 billion), this total reportedly cov ...

Above: Though the ALARM missile was retired by the UK at the end of 2013, and was reported as having been withdrawn by the RSAF ...

stood down, it left the 7th, 75th and 83rd Squadrons to ly the upgraded examples. During February 2013, BAE Systems also reporte ...

A rather weathered 83rd Squadron IDS taxiing at Dhahran, the home of all RSAF Tornados. RSAF/Fahad Rihan http://www.combataircra ...

A LTUS AIR FORCE Base in Oklahoma is home to the 97th Air Mobility Wing (AMW) and is pretty much a perfect training base. It enj ...

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of the wing changed to Air Education and Training Command (AETC) the following year, and it remains under AETC control to this d ...

LOADMASTER LEARNING The role of the loadmaster has become increasingly complex in recent times. A great deal of training is requ ...

B OEING IS ON a roll. It has secured the US Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray unmanned tanker requirement, and its MH-139 — ofered jointly w ...