Japan Air Self-Defense Force personnel stand guard over the X-2, the country’s first domestically produced stealth fighter jet, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, near Nagoya, Japa Japan’s 2019 Mid-Term Defense review quietly revealed that after years of hesitation, Tokyo has decided to press ahead with the development of its own domestically …

The first TNI-AU F-16 A/B airframe that underwent under the Falcon STAR (Structural Augmentation Roadmap) and enhanced mid-life upgrade programme. Source: TNI-AU The Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU) has unveiled its first F-16A enhanced Midlife Upgrade (eMLU) aircraft, with upgrades carried out locally by PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) under Lockheed Martin …

Gerald R. Ford-class is a class of aircraft carrier being built to replace USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and eventually the United States Navy’s existing Nimitz-class carriers, beginning with the delivery of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). The new vessels have a hull similar to the Nimitz carriers, but introduce technologies since …

On Apr. 17, 2020, Belgian Air Force F-16s currently deployed to Siauliai, Lithuania, to support NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission intercepted a group of Russian Federation Air Force fighters in the Baltic Sea. Belgian Air Force F-16s have been filmed intercepting armed Russian fighters as they overfly a US Navy …

According to the US Navy, For the second time in four days, a Russian fighter jet conducted an “unsafe” intercept of a US aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea. A Russian fighter came within 25 feet of a Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft over the in international airspace over the Mediterranean …

The JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft was jointly developed by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation (PAC/CAC). Pakistan and China initiated a project for jointly developed fighter aircraft and they signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in 1995 for joint design and development of a new fighter. In …

Paramount Pictures has changed the release date of highly-anticipated aviation sequel Top Gun: Maverick. Originally set to debut on June 26, the Tom Cruise-led film will now hit the theaters on December 23, 2020. Paramount Pictures hasn’t released much about the plot of what will presumably be a winter 2020 …

The scene of a plane crash in North Auburn, California, on April 18. Source: Lt. Andrew Scott/Placer County Sheriff-Coroner-Marshal’s Office The former mayor of a Northern Californian city who stepped down after he harshly criticized President Donald Trump and his supporters, died in a plane crash, the Sacramento Bee reported. Dr. …

Over the past days, several UCAVs had been downed in Libya. On April 19, another unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) crashed in northern Libya. The April 19 UCAV crashes near the town of Alwashka. Pro-LNA sources immediately claimed that it was the TAI Anka UCAV produced by Turkey. https://twitter.com/LNA2019M/status/1251876366024413188 Contary …

B-52, B-1 & B-2 – Credits: US Strategic Command The U.S. Air Force has ended its uninterrupted rotations of bombers to Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, which have been ongoing since 2004, as it shifts to a less predictable concept of operations. The Air Force announced April 17 it …