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Recently, amid escalating border tensions between India and China, New Delhi approved to spend billions to purchase Russian fighter jets. Moscow will sell New Delhi 33 new fighter aircraft including 12 Su-30MKIs and 21 MiG-29s along with up-gradation of 59 MiG-29s. See Details: The MiG 29 procurement and up-gradation from …

A Skyborg conceptual design for a low cost attritable Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle. (Air Force Research Laboratory artwork) The US Air Force is flying at supersonic speeds towards an AI-enabled fleet. The U.S. Air Force plans to have an operational combat drone by 2023. The service plans to build out …

(U.S. Air Force courtesy photo) U.S. Air Force has released the first picture of one of its new Boeing F-15EX Eagle fighter jets now under construction. There is conflicting information about whether the photo at the top of this story is actually of an F-15EX. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has …

A number of Chinese and Hong Kong media outlets have reported that a new variant of the country’s first fifth generation fighter jet, the Chengdu J-20, has entered mass production.  The moment was marked at a ceremonial unveiling of the modified J-20B stealth fighter jet on Wednesday attended by many …

Satellite images show the presence of the radar at the airbase. Photo: Weibo An Open source satellite imagery spotted Chinese JY-27A anti-stealth Radar in Pakistan at the Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) M.M. Alam Air Base. According to Jane’s Defence Weekly, satellite imagery revealed a China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) JY-27A counter-very-low-observable (CVLO) …

Image credit: BAF Western aircraft usually probed Soviet air defenses during the Cold War. Those aircraft were often intercepted by Su-27s. As told by Yefim Gordon and Dmitriy Komissarov in their book Sukhoi Su-27 & 30/33/34/35, for example, in just three months of 1997 alone, the Russian PVO’s 10th Air …

After starting the production of its first stealth fighter Sukhoi SU-57 fighter jets, Russia is in the final stage of developing another Stealth aircraft, the Mikoyan MiG-41 or PAK DP is a stealth interceptor aircraft/heavy fighter.  In August 2018, the Head of Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG Ilya Tarasenko announced that …

Photo Credits: Via jetgirlusa.com Caroline Johnson a Colorado-born aviatrix was one of the first women to fly a combat mission over Iraq following the military withdraw in 2011, dropping bombs on ISIS from an F/A-18 Super Hornet. Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, …

A Russian state-owned United Engine Corporation is developing new RD-93MA engines for pakistani JF-17 thunder fighter jets. UEC controls the development and manufacturing of all engines for military, civilian, and space use in Russia and for Russian exports. The RD-93MA has been specially developed to power single-engine fighter jets. It …

Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle – Credits: U.S. Navy The US Navy has its first Black female tactical fighter pilot in its history, according to a Thursday tweet from the Chief of Naval Air Training announcing Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle will receive her “wings of gold” later in July. Lt. j.g. …