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Could USAF buy a light strike platform? J UST A FEW months ago most experts would have said that it was inconceivable that the U ...

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A-10 under fi re USAF outlines plans for close air support U S AIR FORCE chief of staff Gen Mark Welsh and Secretary of the Air ...

First Italian F- Roll-out for  rst Lightning II assembled in Italy. See Europe News E-2D on cruise with CVW- Maiden deployment ...

T HE NIMITZ-CLASS AIRCRAFT carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) departed its home port at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, at ...

Last C-17A enters fi nal assembly Boeing carried out its last C-17A ‘major join’ on February 26 when the airframe’s fuselage, co ...

The decision on the next new US Air Force F-35A basing will involve two ANG units and one from AFRC. Lockheed Martin T HE USAF H ...

Idaho ‘Warthogs’ deploy The Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing deployed six A-10 Thunderbolt IIs and more than 120 pe ...

Anti-clockwise from left: Elements of CVW-5, based at NAF Atsugi, Japan, deployed in late February to NAS Fallon, Nevada, to con ...

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AMERICAN OFFICER QUESTIONS BRITISH DEFENSE COMMITMENT L IKE THE REST of the United Kingdom’s military establishment, the Royal A ...

Welsh came on duty in August 2012 following an interim leader. He arrived with rave reviews from troops and high expectations on ...

KJ-500 enters service New ‘mid-size’ AEW&C type on duty T HE FIRST CLEAR photos showing the KJ-500 in People’s Liberation Ar ...

More C-17s, AW139s for UAE On the fi nal day of the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) show in Abu Dhabi, th ...

More MiGs for Libya Egyptian equipment helps combat terror groups T HE LIBYAN AIR Force has received two additional MiG-21MF fi ...

Three ex-Egyptian MiG-21MFs (serials 18, 26 and 27) previously transferred to Libya are now joined by MiG-21MF serial 22 and ano ...

A SENIOR BRITISH ARMY offi cer has detailed to Combat Aircraft plans to acquire 50 AH-64E Apache Guardians to replace the entire ...