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U.S. Air Force F-35A Joint Strike Fighters and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped 36,000 kilograms, or nearly 80,000 pounds, of bombs on ISIS positions at Qanus Island In the Iraqi province of Salah ad-Din in the framework of the US-led coalition campaign in the war-torn country. The island in Iraq’s Tigris …

The North American X-15 was a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft. The X-15 set speed and altitude records in the 1960s, reaching the edge of outer space and returning …

U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has confirmed that the first Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band Engineering Development Model pod arrived at Naval Air Station Patuxent River after a trek across America late July to begin various verification and test procedures in preparation for the second pod delivery early fall. …

The Russian Air Force is a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the latter being formed on 1 August 2015 with the merger of the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. The modern Russian Air Force was originally established on 7 May 1992 following Boris Yeltsin’s creation …

An A-10 Thunderbolt II prepares for maintenance in the 355th Equipment Maintenance Squadron hangar on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Aug. 8, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jacob T. Stephens) As we have earlier reported that air Force completed A-10 re-winging to keep Warthog in the …

The pilot of the Eurofox reported that the two-meter long pink pig powered by six rotors on its back flew just nine meters away from him. The bizarre incident happened just after 2.15pm on May 4 this year when he was flying two miles south of Pocklington airfield, East Yorkshire. …

The Cold War Footage below, filmed in March 1984, during exercise “Highway ’84”, is particularly interesting as it shows an aircraft rarely seen operating from public roads: an F-104G Starfighter of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) in “heavy” (tip + pylon tanks) configuration. The video shows the F-104G “23+30”, belonging …

At the 2019 Defense News Conference on September 4, acting United States Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Donovan announced a number of “controversial changes” would be taking place within his military branch’s “future budgets.” “We need to shift funding and allegiance from legacy programs we can no longer afford …

In recent years Russia has gained extensive combat experience using small and tactical drones, particularly in Syria, on reconnaissance, target acquisition, and battle damage assessment. With a growing emphasis on reconnaissance and aerial operations, Russia has increased the role of UAS in the conflict in Crimea and Ukraine and the …

According to The Drive, U.S. Air Force is seeking responses for its requirement to acquire full-size Super Realistic mock-ups of the Russian S-300PMU air defense system – NATO codename SA-20 Gargoyle. The U.S. Air Force wants to buy two life-size mock transporter-erector-launchers, or TELs, that mimic the physical look, as …