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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....

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...

General Cherry AIR

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

U.S., U.K. Air Forces Conduct Fighter Weapons Certification During Exercise Combat Archer

U.S. Air Force units stationed in England achieved combat certifications after completing two weeks of high-end, tactical air and missile training during Exercise Combat Archer U.K...

A U.S. Marine Corps FA-18C of VMFA-323, launches off the flight

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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...

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...

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,...

U.S. Air Force’s EC-130H flies final mission alongside EA-37B

A U.S. Air Force EC-130H Compass Call aircraft flew in formation with an EA-37B Compass Call for the first time on September 3, in what the Air Force identified as the EC-130H’s fi...

Grissom Air Reserve Base welcomes the Thunderbirds

Roaring engines echoed overhead.

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...

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...

UAE defense giant shows off new strike capability for Mirage 2000

An aging French-built fighter jet has got a serious upgrade, and the company behind it wants the world to see exactly how far a decades-old airframe can stretch when paired with mo...

New General Cherry’s numbers by Delta are hard

#1 by E-Score across ALL target engagement systems.#1 in FPV strikes in the Delta ranking

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...