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U.S. Air Force

Let’s Face It, The USAF Isn’t Serious About Buying a Light Attack Aircraft

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Light Air Support

The French Army Eyes All-New Fleet of Light Attack Airplanes

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

U.S. Air Force

Turkey’s Intervention in Syria Puts it On a Collision Course With US Forces

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Manned ISR

Now Russia Is Demanding US Stop Spying Near Its Borders After Buzzing Navy Spy Plane

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

CH-47

US Uses a Private Helicopter Force to Get Around Kabul And Intel Woes Might Put It At Risk

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Q-9

The USAF Expands MQ-9 Reaper Drone Force in Afghanistan to Its Largest Size Ever

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

AC-130

The USAF Still Can’t Get The New AC-130J Ghostrider’s 30mm Cannon To Work Reliably

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

F-35

Navy Orders Development Of New Air Defense Blasting Missile That Will Fit Inside F-35

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Helicopters

The French Navy Is Finally Retiring These Antique Helicopters After 55 Years of Service

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Q-1

The US Navy May End Up Flying the Air Force’s Unwanted MQ-1 Predator Drones

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

A-10

USAF Official in Charge of A-10s Says Re-Wing Program Is “Not Going to Happen”

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Su-30

Watch These Russian Su-30 And Su-34 Jets Do Touch-and-Gos on a Highway

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Swarms

US Army Rushes to Add Hundreds of Stinger Missile Teams As Threat of Small Drones Evolves

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Swarms

China Is Hard At Work Developing Swarms Of Small Drones With Big Military Applications

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

F-35

Turkey Wants to Link Its F-35 Computer Brains to Networks That Will Include Russian Systems

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Swarms

Russia Says it Blew Up Terrorists Behind Syria Drone Attacks With Laser-Guided Artillery

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Swarms

Russia Offers New Details About Syrian Mass Drone Attack, Now Implies Ukrainian Connection

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

MQ-25

US Navy Wants to Hire Contractors to Fly Their Own MQ-9 Reaper Drones in Afghanistan

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

P-8

Russia Implies Drone Swarm Attack On Its Base in Syria Linked to US P-8 Patrol Plane

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Wide Area Aerial Surveillance

Shadowy USAF Spy Plane Spotted Over Seattle Reportedly Reappears Over Syria

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

C-130

USAF Eyeing New Props and Upgraded Engines To Breathe Extra Life Into Old C-130Hs

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

C-2

US Navy Expects Its Carrier Onboard Delivery Ospreys to be Fully Operational By 2024

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Su-24

Russia Confirms Syria Attack But Denies Seven Aircraft Got Destroyed As Photos Emerge

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

U.S. Air Force

USAF Uses Textron’s Scorpion Jet As the Latest Testbed for Its Modular Sensor Pod

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

A-10

Watch The “Final Cut” Of A Glowing Film About The A-10 That The USAF Tried to Suppress

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Swarms

USAF Wants Swarms of Cheap “Gray Wolf” Cruise Missiles That Can Overwhelm Enemy Defenses

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

F-35

A-10 Replacement Requirements Do Actually Exist But They’re Mired In Bureaucratic Limbo

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

F-16

U.S. Test Pilots Head To Taiwan To Begin Testing Their Badly Needed Upgraded F-16s

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

B407

The US Army Wants to Buy 150 Helicopters for Allies and “Other Government Agencies”

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

OV-10

Document Offers New Details About Those OV-10 Broncos That Went to Fight ISIS

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Afghan Air Force

Afghan A-29s Aren’t Dropping Laser-Guided Bombs or Engaging Targets at Night

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

B-52

Now The Air Force Wants New Engines For Its B-52s That Burn 40 Percent Less Fuel

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

U.S. Air Force

The US Air Force Still Has At Least One MAC-10 Submachine Gun

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

MQ-25

Boeing Unveils Prototype For The Navy’s MQ-25 Drone Tanker Competition (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

UH-60

Afghanistan’s Rebuilt UH-60s Could Actually Hurt Its Warfighting Ability in the Near Term

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

U.S. Air Force

That Massive Cross-Country USAF Airlift Exercise Was the Largest of Its Kind, Ever

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Stealth

BAE Systems Wants Its MAGMA Drone to Maneuver Using Only Supersonic Blasts of Air

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Draken International

Draken Picks Up a Dozen South African Cheetahs to Emulate 4th Generation Adversaries

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

MQ-4C

Decades Ago The Navy Tested A Maritime Patrol U-2 Variant That Was Way Ahead Of Its Time

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

F-15

Germany Reportedly Favors Typhoon to Replace Tornado, Also Eyeing F-15, F/A-18

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

F-35

Israel’s F-35I Adir Is Ready for Combat, But When Will It Be Headed Into Harm’s Way?

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

A-10

Top USAF Civilian Is a “Fan” of the A-10, but Dozens Will Still Likely Get Grounded

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

AH-1

Blackwater Founder’s Private Afghan Air Arm Pitch Included An-26 Gunships And AH-1 Cobras

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

U.S. Air Force

US Military Goes on Alert Ahead of Trump’s Plan to Move US Embassy into Jerusalem

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Israeli Air Force

Israel Launches Flurry of Strikes in Syria as its Air War in the Country Turns to Iran

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

F-22

F-22s, F-35s Join Hundreds of US and South Korean Jets in Drill as Fears of War Rise

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

U.S. Air Force

Here’s What You Need to Know About the US Military’s New Cluster Munition Policy

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Air Combat Exercises

Jaded Thunder Exercise Trains Elite Troops to Call in Almost Any Sort of Fire Support

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

AC-130

The USAF Is Rebuilding World War II-Era 40mm Shells for its AC-130U Gunships

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Stealth

China Says It’s Building a “Ghost Imaging” Satellite to Detect Stealth Jets

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

B-52

B-52s Are Dropping Hundreds of Dumb Bombs in Afghanistan to Literally Shape the Terrain

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

RC-135

Award Reveals USAF Rivet Joint Spied on Iranian Forces During 2016 Hostage Crisis

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

MH-6/AH-6

Armed UN Little Bird Helicopters Are a Big Deal for Peacekeepers in Mali

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Search And Rescue

Despite a String of False Reports, Time Is Running Out To Find Missing Argentine Sub

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

U.S. Air Force

Now in the Public Eye, American Troops in Niger Celebrate Thanksgiving

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

A-50/A-100

Bristling With Antennas, Russia’s A-100 Is Likely More Than Just A New Radar Plane

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

B-52

The US Air Force Has Taken Another Step Toward Re-Engining its B-52s

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

MQ-25

The Navy Says “Fly Before Buy” When It Comes To Its New MQ-25 Drone Tanker

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Tu-160

Russia Rolls Out New Tu-160M2, But Are Moscow’s Bomber Ambitions Realistic?

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Area 51

SpaceX Is About to Launch A Mysterious Northrop Grumman Spacecraft Called “Zuma”

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

U.S. Air Force

US Air Force Reveals There May Have Been Another Attempted Terrorist Attack in Niger

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

F-35

Saudis Join UAE in Push to Buy F-35s as Concerns About the Jet’s Computer Network Grow

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Air Combat Exercises

Blue Flag Exercise Has Dozens of Foreign Fighter Jets Over Israel Training For War

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

F-35

Germany Says the F-35 is the “Preferred Choice” to Replace its Tornados

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019