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 …
Read More »Indonesian Air Force Debuts Upgraded F-16 Fighter Jet In New Color Scheme
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 …
Read More »Cockpit Footage Shows Belgian F-16 Intercepting Russian Jets Buzzing USS Donald Cook Destroyer In The Baltic Sea
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 …
Read More »After 16 Years U.S. Air Force Abruptly Ends Continuous Bomber Presence In Guam
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 …
Read More »Val Kilmer Reveals He Didn’t Want To Star In ‘Top Gun’ Movie With Tom Cruise
Credits: Top Gun Just like their Top Gun characters, Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise had a little bit of a rivalry behind the scenes. In an excerpt obtained by Closer Weekly, the Tombstone star said he and Tom fell into different circles on set. “We were the party boys,” he explained. “Every night …
Read More »French Air Force Fighter Jets Pilots Gets New YEMA Superman Watches
Credits: yema Yema is a French watchmaking company based in Besançon, France. Since the 1970s, French watchmaker YEMA has worked in partnership with the French Air Force, supplying the military branch with high-performance timepieces to assist them in their operations. Now officially renewing their partnership, the brand has created a …
Read More »Lockheed Martin Has Reported Trained 1,000th Pilot & 9,000th Maintainer For The F-35 Lightning II program
Gen. Mike Holmes, the commander of Air Combat Command, congratulates Capt. Kristin “BEO” Wolfe, the new F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team pilot (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Kip Sumner). Lockheed Martin has reported that it trained the 1,000th pilot and 9,000th maintainer for the F-35 Lightning II program. More …
Read More »Airbus MRTT Test Aircraft Successfully Completed World’s First Fully Automatic Refuelling Contacts On F-16 Fighter Jets
Photo caption: The picture shows the first fully automated refuelling contacts between an Airbus tanker test aircraft and a Portuguese Air Force F-16 fighter jet. Credits: airbus Airbus has achieved the first-ever fully automatic air-to-air refueling (A3R) operation with a boom system. The flight test campaign, conducted earlier in the …
Read More »U.S. Air Force Starts 3D Printing Face Shields Amid Protective Equipment Shortages
U.S. Air Force Staff. Sgt. Maximilion Estrada, Phoenix Spark noncommissioned officer in charge of agile manufacturing, assembles a face shield(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jonathon Carnell) U.S. Air Force based at the Travis Air Force Base has started producing 3D printed face shields amid protective equipment shortages in …
Read More »Two Dead & Five Injured In French Military Helicopter Crash
The Aérospatiale AS 532UL Cougar military helicopter from the 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment (RHC) of Pau crashed under unknown circumstances during a training exercise. Two occupants died and five were injured. Two of the injured were taken care of by the rescue team while they were in a state of …
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