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On June 20, 2019, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s (IRGC) shot down a United States RQ-4A Global Hawk BAMS-D surveillance drone with a surface-to-air missile over the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials said that the drone violated their airspace, while U.S. officials responded that the drone was in international airspace. …

Directional Infrared Counter Measures (DIRCM) is a system to protect aircraft from infrared homing (“heat-seeking”) man-portable missiles. It is a lightweight, compact system designed to provide mission-vulnerable aircraft with increased protection from common battlefield threats. It is more advanced than conventional infrared countermeasures. Russian new Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter jet …

As we have reported earlier that on Jan. 24, 2020, U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Ralph Featherstone, the commanding officer (CO) of Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron has been fired for making a low-level flypast during the unit’s sundown the ceremony of the F/A-18D. The video obtained by the San …

According to Jane Pakistan Air Force to receive the first 12 of 26 twin-seat JF-17B Thunder ‘in the near future’. Eight of these aircraft were built at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) in Kamra, while the remaining four were constructed by the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAIG) in China, where the …

Paramount just released a new set of photos that introduces some of the newcomers who will have a role to play in Maverick. We still don’t know a whole lot about the story, but these are the people we’ll presumably be spending a lot of time with. Highlighting Miles Teller …

on Jan. 24, 2020, U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Ralph Featherstone, the commanding officer (CO) of Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron has been fired for making a low-level flypast during the unit’s sundown the ceremony of the F/A-18D. An anonymous source told Marine Corps Times that the flight was lower …

Gripen E test aircraft 39-10 arrived at Tampere-Pirkkala Airbase on 29 January, kicking off a one-week evaluation campaign that will include Gripen NG 39-7 as well as a GlobalEye AEW&C aircraft flying from Sweden. Source: Jane’s/Gareth Jennings Saab has officially launched the flight evaluation phase of its Gripen E/F fighter …

Artist rendering of a B-21 Raider concept in a hangar at Dyess, Air Force Base, Texas, one of the future bases to host the new airframe. (Courtesy photo by Northrop Grumman) U.S. Air Force together with the bomber’s manufacturer, Northrop Grumman, published three new concepts of the next-generation bomber, showing …

An F-15E Strike Eagle sits at the 332d Air Expeditionary Wing on Dec. 31, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Andrew Satran)After nearly twenty years, the U.S. Air Force is buying a brand new F-15 eagle fighter jet. On Tuesday, a pair of twin pre-solicitation notices posted to …

Air refueling operator conducts an in-flight refueling of a U.S. F-22 Raptor (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Kat Justen) The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation, single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft developed for the United States Air Force (USAF). A result of the USAF’s Advanced …