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A-10 Thunderbolt II Takes Final Flight at Davis-Monthan AFB

The U.S. Air Force’s 355th Wing conducted the final flight with the A-10C Thunderbolt II at Davis-Monthan AFB, as the service ends A-10 operations at the installation. The A-10C Th...

A-10 Flies Armed Airborne Escort in Exercise with a Ballistic Missile Submarine

The Ohio class ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska (SSBN 739) received an airborne escort while surfaced in the Pacific Ocean, exercising with a U.S. Air Force A-10C Thunderbo...

US Air Force ends nearly 50 years of A-10 flights at Davis-Monthan

The US Air Force flew the A-10C Thunderbolt II from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, for the final time on… The post US Air Force ends nearly 50 years of A-10 flights at Davi...

‘BRRRRT Act’ Introduced in U.S. Congress to Keep the A-10 Warthog in Service

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced legislation aimed at halting the retirement of the A-10 Thunderbolt II until a fully certified replacement is operational. Rep....

Hamadeh Introduces the Bipartisan BRRRRT Act as A-10’s Take “Fini Flight” from Davis-Monthan AFB

Fighter Wing Trains to Keep F-35s in the Fight

Airmen assigned to the 187th Fighter Wing, known as the Red Tails, trained to generate and sustain F-35A Lightning II combat airpower under pressure during Operation Tuskegee Thund...

BRRRRT Act’s Text Reveals New Details About Plan to Save the A-10s

New details in the BRRRRT Act’s full text reveal plans to keep selected Warthogs recoverable, examine potential foreign transfers and test emerging autonomous systems. Weeks after...

F-16’s AVEN Thrust Vectoring Nozzle Integrated with X-BAT’s F110-GE-129 Engine

In a critical milestone towards the first flight later this year, Shield AI and GE Aerospace integrated the X-BAT with the AVEN thrust vectoring system which was tested in the 1990...

Air Force Selects Whiteman As Sole Candidate For New F-15E Mission In Missouri

Whiteman Air Force Base in west-central Missouri is one step closer to securing a replacement mission for the Missouri Air National Guard’s 442nd Fighter Wing as the Air Force phas...

Introducing Thunder: Autonomous Attack Rotorcraft for the Near-Surface Fight

The proliferation of drones in land warfare has brought maneuver to a stalemate, extracting a significant toll in terms of both man and machine. Attack helicopters and their crews,...

Stratton Air Base Gate Guardian repainted

SCOTIA, New York--Airmen assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing, based at Stratton Air National Guard Base in Scotia, New York, work together to repaint the gate guardian that sits at...

F-15EX Eagle IIs Conducted First Bomb Drop Test, Air Force Confirmed

Pilots with the 123d Fighter Squadron, 142nd Fighter Wing dropped 500-pound BDU-50s and 2,000-pound BDU-56s test munitions in May at Mountain Home Air Force Base.

Eight VT ANG F-35A Jets Arrive at RAF Lakenheath on Their Way Back from Middle East Deployment

The first eight of a dozen Vermont Air National Guard F-35As are returning home from their combat deployment in the CENTCOM area of operations. Split into two flights, the first ei...

General Cherry AIR

Since July 24, Romanian F-16s have been shooting down Shahed drones with $400,000 AIM-9X missiles.

Russia’s air defense leans on a few “flying quarterback” jets

Russia’s A-50U airborne early warning aircraft function as “flying quarterbacks” for its air defense network, and Moscow has no near-term way to replace the ones it has lost, defen...

USAF speed up Reaper replacement after heavy losses in Iran

The Massed Modular Aircraft program envisions a $10M airframe—plus sensor and system costs.

B-52 Stratofortress Landed In Australia For Bomber Task Force Mission

Six of the Cold War-era Boeing long-range bombers could be rotated to RAAF Base Tindal to support U.S. Air Force operations in the Indo-Pacific.

Grissom Air Reserve Base welcomes the Thunderbirds

Roaring engines echoed overhead.

Introducing Thunder: Autonomous Attack Rotorcraft for the Near-Surface Fight

The proliferation of drones in land warfare has brought maneuver to a stalemate, extracting a

CENTCOM launches multinational attack drone task force

Task Force Falcon Strike will employ one-way attack drones composed of unmanned systems from above, on and below the sea.

Italian Typhoon Shoots Down Drone Over Latvia

An Italian F-2000 Typhoon assigned to the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission shot down an unidentified drone which entered Latvia’s airspace. An F-2000A Typhoon (as the single seater...

Mi-24 Hind Plays ‘Adversary’ in U.S. Marine Corps Exercise

Since 2020, two Mi-24D Hind helicopter gunships have provided invaluable threat replication to the U.S. Marine Corps, Army and Air Force. The participation of a Russian-made Mi-24D...

Allied nations touch down in Darwin for Exercise Pitch Black

Four Philippine Air Force (PAF) FA-50PH Golden Eagles arrived at RAAF Base Darwin last week, followed by Thai F-16B fighters, Korean fighters and tankers, and a number of aircraft...

Exclusive: The USAF T-1A Jayhawk Poses For Its Final Air-to-Air Photo Shoot

Ahead of the type’s planned retirement from Vance AFB, T-1A 93-0654 took to the skies over Oklahoma for one last aerial photography mission with The Aviationist contributor Greg “C...