Air Forces (Page 3)

Posted on Aug 13, 2025

Bizarre footage has emerged from Russia, showing what’s claimed to be part of an experiment to integrate a counter-uncrewed aerial system (CUAS) interceptor drone on a MiG-29 Fulcrum jet fighter. On closer inspection, the quadcopter drone is lashed to the fighter using zip ties and, even if that weren’t the case, the overall practicality of the solution is extremely questionable — to say the least.

Russian MiG-29 Fitted With An “Interceptor Drone” Is A Laughable Mess

Posted on Aug 11, 2025

The turboprop-powered Zlin Z-137 Agro Turbo is seen swooping low over a Ukrainian cornfield, very much its traditional operating environment. In this case, however, it sports a single R-73 air-to-air missile under each wing. The agricultural plane also appears to have received a military-style dull gray overall paint scheme, with white identification stripes on the rear fuselage to reduce the risk of ‘friendly fire.’ Details of the date and location of the video are not immediately available.

Ukrainian Air Force

Crop Duster Armed With Air-To-Air Missiles Appears In Ukraine

Posted on Aug 8, 2025

For B-21, Quantity Is Its Most Critical Quality Top Bomber Officer Says

Posted on Aug 7, 2025

Cybertrucks Wanted By Air Force As Missile Targets

Updated on Aug 7, 2025

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has provided us with a look at the future, stealthier version of its KF-21 fighter, which is now known as the KF-21EX. Concept artwork of the refined version of the jet has been released, with internal weapons carriage being its distinguishing feature. This is part of an effort to make the KF-21 more survivable in the face of ever more capable air defense systems, although the resulting aircraft will not offer the same level of low observability as the F-35, which is also operated by South Korea.

Republic of Korea Air Force

South Korea’s KF-21 Fighter To Get Stealthier With Internal Weapons Bays

Posted on Aug 6, 2025

A 9th Reconnaissance Wing TU-2S Dragon Lady piloted by Cory “ULTRALORD” Bartholomew, 1st Reconnaissance Squadron (RS) assigned flight safety officer and U-2 instructor pilot, and Lt. Col. “JETHRO”, 1st RS instructor pilot and U-2 chief pilot, lands at Beale Air Force Base (AFB), California, Aug. 1st, 2025. “ULTRALORD” and “JETHRO”’s flight took place on the 70th anniversary of the U-2’s first flight and broke the endurance records for the U-2, flying longer than 14 hours and traveled over 6,000 nautical miles. This flight tested the capabilities of the U-2 and its pilots to its limit and showcased Beale AFB’s capacity as a power projection platform to rapidly respond to adversary actions anywhere in the world. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Frederick A. Brown)

U-2 Pilot On What It Took To Make Record-Setting 14-Hour Flight A Reality

Updated on Aug 6, 2025

F-15EX Fuel Venting Troubles Emerge, Boeing Testing Fixes

Posted on Aug 5, 2025

Another chinese stealthy tailless combat jet emerges.

New Chinese Stealth Tactical Jet Breaks Cover

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Aug 5, 2025

U-2 dragon lady's 70th anniversary record setting.

U-2 Just Set New Records On The 70th Anniversary Of Its First Flight (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Aug 2, 2025

Sig M18 Pistol Restrictions Expand To USAF Air Combat Command Units

Posted on Jul 28, 2025

Russia appears to be using a new type of air-to-air missile in its war in Ukraine. Evidence is mounting that the R-77M — a significantly upgraded version of the R-77 beyond-visual-range missile known to NATO as the AA-12 Adder — is not only operational but being employed in combat. The arrival of the new weapon presents another major challenge for the Ukrainian Air Force, as well as other potential adversaries.

Signs Russia’s Using New R-77M Air-To-Air Missile In Ukraine

Posted on Jul 25, 2025

F-16I has taken part in all aspects of Israeli operations since the October 7th attacks.

Israeli F-16I Navigator Opens Up About Striking Iran

Updated on Jul 25, 2025

What Gun Will Bomber Crews Fly With Now That The Sig M18 Is Pulled From Use?

Updated on Jul 24, 2025

This F-16I Navigator Is The First Druze Aviator In Israeli Air Force History

Posted on Jul 23, 2025

Official roll out for first Oman Eurofighter Typhoon combat jet.

Turkish Air Force

Turkey Lines Up Eurofighter Typhoon As Its Next Fighter

Posted on Jul 23, 2025

Sig M18 Pistols Pulled From Use By Air Force Global Strike Command (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Posted on Jul 22, 2025

A Ukrainian Mirage 2000 fighter has crashed, the first loss of one of these French-donated jets.

Ukrainian Air Force

Ukraine Marks First Loss Of Mirage 2000 Fighter

Updated on Jul 22, 2025

Major Indications Nuclear Bombs Are Back At USAF Air Base In England

Posted on Jul 21, 2025

A first rendering has been released showing the new fighter demonstrator being built in the United Kingdom as part of the Tempest next-generation air combat program. The crewed flight test vehicle, which is planned to take to the air in 2027, will feed into the design of the Tempest, which is being developed as a stealthy fighter for the U.K.’s Royal Air Force, as well as for Italy and Japan, and is expected to be in service by 2035.

Royal Air Force

This Is What The UK’s New Stealth Fighter Demonstrator Will Look Like

Posted on Jul 17, 2025

Israeli just bombed the Syrian Defense Ministry and presidential palace in Damascus claiming support for the Druze community in southern Syria.

Israel Strikes At The Heart Of Syria’s Military Command In Dramatic Escalation (Updated)

Updated on Jul 16, 2025

USAF Denies It Refueled Israel’s Fighters During War With Iran

Updated on Jul 16, 2025

Air Force KC-46 Pegasus aerial refueling jets are experiencing problems with their auxiliary power units.

KC-46 Crews Ordered To Drastically Curtail Use Of Jet’s Onboard Auxiliary Power Unit (Updated)

Updated on Jul 15, 2025

F-15EX Arrives In Japan For The First Time As Part Of Massive Pacific Exercise

Posted on Jul 15, 2025

Footage from a recent Russian bombardment of the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi provides us with what is likely our best look so far at a Kh-101 cruise missile fitted with a cluster warhead. While Russian forces have made extensive use of a variety of cluster munitions in the conflict, resulting in many civilian deaths and serious injuries, it’s notable that the relatively high-end Kh-101 is also now being used in this capacity, suggesting it is finding favor as a terror weapon as Moscow steps up its campaign against cities across Ukraine.

Cluster Warhead Version Of Russian Kh-101 Cruise Missile Caught On Camera

Posted on Jul 14, 2025

Step Toward Blocking E-7 Wedgetail Radar Jet Program Cancellation Taken By Congress

Posted on Jul 11, 2025

The Pentagon is waiting for comprehensive battle damage assessment to see how well the MOP worked against Iranian nuclear facilities and how it can be improved.

GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator’s Results From Iran Strike Will Inform Its Future: Defense Officials

Updated on Jul 10, 2025

Image of HMS Vengeance returning to HMNB Clyde, after completing Operational Sea Training. The trials were conducted in Scottish exercise areas. HMS Vengeance is the fourth and final Vanguard-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Vengeance carries the Trident ballistic missile, the UK's nuclear deterrent.

French Air Force

UK And France To Join Forces For Nuclear Deterrence

Posted on Jul 10, 2025

An annual U.S. Navy wishlist sent to Congress reportedly includes $1.4 billion that would help keep its dreams of a next-generation carrier-based combat jet alive.

Navy Puts Gutted F/A-XX Next Generation Fighter Program In Wishlist To Congress: Reports

Posted on Jul 10, 2025

B-1B To Finally Get New External Pylons Drastically Expanding Missile Carriage Potential (Updated)

Updated on Jul 9, 2025

While the J-20S was officially unveiled at the Zhuhai Airshow last year, there are rumors that it might be publicly unveiled as an operational PLAAF asset in September of this year, when the PLAAF marks the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II.

China’s Two-Seat J-20 Stealth Fighter Poised To Enter Operational Service

Updated on Jul 8, 2025

A South Korean AH-64 Apache helicopter fires rockets during a combined live-fire exercise between the South Korean and US armies at the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in Pocheon on October 30, 2024. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

Republic of Korea Air Force

South Korea Canceling AH-64 Apache Order A Sign Of What’s To Come

Posted on Jul 8, 2025

The unique RF-5E Tigergazer reconnaissance aircraft operated by the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) has been stood down from service. The retirement of Taiwan’s RF-5Es comes after the country bid farewell to its F-5E Tiger II fighters at the end of 2023, after almost half a century of operations. With high levels of tension between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China, the ROCAF’s future tactical reconnaissance needs will be handled by drones and pod-equipped F-16 fighters.

Republic Of China Air Force (Taiwan)

Taiwan’s RF-5 Tigergazer Reconnaissance Jets Have Retired

Posted on Jul 7, 2025

China’s Mysterious Ekranoplan Seen In Full For First Time

Updated on Jul 5, 2025

F-22 Raptors Will Be First To Control ‘Fighter Drone’ Collaborative Combat Aircraft

Updated on Jul 3, 2025

New F-22 Upgrade Package To Keep The Jets Viable Laid Out

Posted on Jul 2, 2025

Plans To Finally Give F-35 External Fuel Tanks Emerge In New Air Force Budget (Updated)

Posted on Jun 30, 2025

Israel Vows To Maintain Air Superiority Over Iran

Posted on Jun 27, 2025

Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force Goes Nuclear With F-35A

Posted on Jun 25, 2025

GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator Successor In The Works

Posted on Jun 24, 2025

The Israeli military said it had struck command centers belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and other domestic security forces responsible for “maintaining the regime’s stability.”

Israel Strikes Key Iranian Command And Control Sites In Tehran (Updated)

Updated on Jun 23, 2025

US base in qatar attacked by iranian ballistic missiles

Iran Launches Ballistic Missile Revenge Strike On Al Udeid Air Base In Qatar (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jun 23, 2025

U.S. Has Attacked Iran’s Nuclear Facilities (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jun 22, 2025

A new photo provides our best view so far of the Shenyang J-35, China’s next-generation carrier-based fighter. It’s part of a relative flurry of imagery showing some of China’s latest military aircraft. In sharp contrast to the blurry or heavily edited shots we have become familiar with out of China in the past, these various higher-quality images provide a fascinating snapshot of the breadth of developments taking place right now in China’s military aerospace realm.

China’s J-35 Naval Stealth Fighter Seen Like Never Before

Posted on Jun 20, 2025

At least one Iranian ballistic missile impacted the port city of Haifa in northern Israel.

Iranian Ballistic Missiles Hit “Strategic Points” In Israeli Port City Of Haifa (Updated)

Updated on Jun 20, 2025

U.S. Decision On Striking Iran To Be Made In “Next Two Weeks” (Updated)

Updated on Jun 19, 2025

MQ-28 Ghost Bat drones have demonstrated their ability to engage an aerial target while under the direction of the crew of a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft.

Royal Australian Air Force

MQ-28 Ghost Bats Controlled From E-7 Wedgetail In Loyal Wingman Test

Posted on Jun 19, 2025

C-130 from the IAF dropping material via airdrop.

Could Israeli C-130s Drop GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bunker Busters?

Posted on Jun 18, 2025

Thirteen C-17 aircraft fly over the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia during low-level tactical training Dec. 20, 2005. The C-17s, assigned to the 437th and 315th Airlift Wings at Charleston AFB, demonstrated the Air Force's strategic airdrop capability.

Boeing In Talks To Restart C-17 Production

Posted on Jun 18, 2025

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that one of its drones had been downed by a surface-to-air missile while operating over Iran, AFP reports. An army statement said the drone “fell in Iran. No injuries were reported and there is no risk of an information breach.”

Israeli Hermes Drone Shot Down In Iran, Trump Ramps Up Threats To Tehran

Posted on Jun 18, 2025

Iran's primary presidential plane and two other government airliners have touched down in the Omani capital Muscat.

Iranian Air Force

Iranian Government Aircraft Make Mysterious Dash To Oman

Updated on Jun 18, 2025

U.S. Air Force Fighters Deploy To Reinforce Middle East

Posted on Jun 17, 2025

28 tankers were sent out over the Atlantic heading east tonight.

Armada Of USAF Tankers Just Deployed East Over Atlantic Spurring Speculation (Updated)

Updated on Jun 16, 2025

Iranian Air Force

Iranian F-14 ‘Persian Tomcats’ Obliterated In Israeli Airstrike

Posted on Jun 16, 2025

The Israeli military claims it has destroyed one third of Iran’s long-range surface-to-surface missile launchers since the start of the conflict. For now, however, Iran is still launching missile strikes against Israel, with overnight attacks having killed at least eight people, according to Israeli sources.

One Third Of Iran’s Long-Range Missile Launchers Destroyed, Israel Claims (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick, Howard Altman

Posted on Jun 16, 2025

Israel is now attacking Iranian energy facilities after warning it would if Iran didn't stop hitting Israeli urban areas.

Israel Escalates To Attacking Iranian Energy Targets After Ballistic Missiles Hit Tel Aviv (Updated)

Updated on Jun 15, 2025

Mysterious chinese flying wing aircraft that could be the H-20 bomber appears in satellite image.

Massive Stealth Flying Wing Emerges At Secretive Chinese Base

Updated on Jun 14, 2025

Israeli officials are warning that the strikes that began to be launched against Iran overnight are just the start phase of a wider operation.

Israel’s Operation To Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program Enters New Phase (Updated)

Updated on Jun 13, 2025

Israel Launches Operation Rising Lion To Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 13, 2025

A Dassaullt Rafale fighter and two Dassault Falcon business jets are on display 21 June 2001 at the 44th Paris-Le Bourget Air show, billed as the biggest ever event of its kind, bringing together 1800 exhibitors from the aviation industry from 43 countries.

French Air Force

Rafale Reemerges With Conformal Fuel Tanks

Posted on Jun 12, 2025

APKWS rockets were kept from Ukraine to be used to defend US in the Middle East.

Counter-Drone Weapons Diverted From Ukraine To Middle East Amid Rising Tensions, Hegseth Confirms

Posted on Jun 11, 2025

The proven and in-production E-7 Wedgetail, based on the Boeing 737 and serving with multiple allies, was supposed to bridge the gap between the E-3's retirement and pushing the mission to space-based distributed satellite constellations. Now, if the administration gets its wish, that won't happen. The E-7 will be cancelled and the Navy's E-2D Hawkeye will step in to fill the gap.

E-2 Hawkeye Replaces USAF E-3 Sentry, E-7 Cancelled In New Budget

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 11, 2025

Newly emerged video footage purportedly shows the destruction of a Ukrainian drilling rig in the Black Sea by a supersonic cruise missile launched by a Russian Tu-22M3 Backfire-C bomber.