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6 HEADLINE NEWS VMFA-121 ‘Green Knights’ deploy with F-35B, plus B-21 testing to take place at Edwards AFB 8 US NEWS US defense ...

CONTRIBUTOR OF THE MONTH GIOVANNI COLLA Giovanni Colla has been up close with military aviation for most of his 33 years, workin ...

LAST CRUISES FOR CLASSIC HORNETS A S THE US Navy gears up to mark initial operating capability (IOC) for the F-35C Lightning II ...

‘GREEN KNIGHTS’ DEPLOY MARINE CORPS F-35BS BEGIN FIRST DEPLOYMENT A DETACHMENT OF F35Bs operated by Marine  ghter attack squad ...

GLOBALEYE MAKES MAIDEN FLIGHT SAAB MARKED THE maiden  ight of its new GlobalEye swing-role surveillance system (SRSS) when the ...

The latest budget reduces the USAF’s planned purchases of F-35As in accordance with the service’s 2017 decision to lower its max ...

R ELEASED ON FEBRUARY 12, the $686.1-billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 President’s budget for the Department of Defense (DoD) includ ...

LIGHTNING II UPDATE BLOCK 3F F35AS assigned to the 388th Fighter Wing’s 34th Fighter Squadron ‘Rams’ have been cleared to emplo ...

HORNET SHAKE-UP US NAVY TO RETIRE OR SCRAP ‘CLASSIC’ HORNETS T HE US NAVY is accelerating its transition to the F/A-18E/F and is ...

An artist’s rendering of the Paramount Group’s Bronco II, ambitiously fi nished with Marine Corps titles. Paramount Group JAYHAW ...

BRONCO II UNVEILED NEW LIGHT ATTACK ENTRANT IN US MARKET P ARAMOUNT GROUP INTERNATIONAL revealed its design for a new light atta ...

UNIT NEWS Fighters to Fort Lauderdale North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is moving forward with plans to detach  ...

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TAKING A LOOK BEHIND THE HEADLINES TAKING A LOOK BEHIND THE HEADLINES BYBY ROBERT BECKHUSEN ROBERT BECKHUSEN AERIAL INTERCEPTS A ...

path of another aircraft and dropping flares or chaff as a warning to back off. Aerial intercepts involving NATO and Russian air ...

risks of shooting down Russian aircraft if American pilots interpret their actions ‘as a threat to our air or ground forces’. In ...

Over 132 high-quality pages, RAF100 describes the aircraft, exercises, operations and people, and its pioneering work at the cut ...

The now deactivated Esquadra 103 (EICPAC) that operated the Alpha Jet until January was the oldest active unit in the Portuguese ...