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 …
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Taiwan’s air force has again scrambled to warn off approaching Chinese jets, in the latest rise in military tension between Beijing and the island it claims as its own. In the second such incident in two months, Taiwan’s Air Force (officially the Republic of China Air Force) has scrambled F-16 …
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Two Turkish F-16 fighter jets flew over the eastern Aegean islet of Agathonisi on Monday and were intercepted by Greek counterparts. The Hellenic National Defense General Staff said the Turkish planes had entered Athens’ flight-information region without submitting a flight plan, according to Greek media outlet Ekathimerini. Flights by Turkish …
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An F-16C flown by Maj Jeffrey Entine, 85th Flight Test Squadron test pilot, prepares to fire a rocket at a test drone at Eglin Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. John Raven) According to a statement issued by the 40th Flight Test Squadron, the U.S. Air …
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According to a statement by the Turkish Defense Ministry, Two F-16 fighter jets belonging to Turkey flew in Syrian airspace for two hours Turkish F-16 fighter jets entered Syrian airspace on Monday as part of a U.S.-led operation against Islamic State (ISIS) in the region, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said. “Two F-16s …
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