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By Peter Felstead 28th March 2022

… has chosen to take the Lockheed Martin F-35A Joint Strike Fighter over the Saab Gripen E into the “finalisation phase” … signed with Lockheed Martin, the aim is to have the aircraft in service as early as 2025. However, Tassi noted … eliminated the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet from its fighter replacement contest. PSPC declined to state at the …

By DAN ZAMANSKY AND YURIY RYBIN 6th March 2022

… Of all the Luftwaffe fighter pilots who fought in the Arctic theatre until the … German ace in the Arctic. He had claimed at least 91 aircraft destroyed. With the exception of two RAF Lockheed … aerial victory, the highest total among all Luftwaffe fighter squadrons in the Arctic. At the summit of fame, …

By Tom Kaminski 15th May 2024

… In a surprise move, the 354th Fighter Wing’s 18th Aggressor Squadron (AGRS) ‘Blue Foxes’ – … Air Forces (PACAF) command – was redesignated as the 18th Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS) at Eielson AFB, Alaska, on … incursions by Russian Aerospace Forces (RuAF)-operated aircraft into Alaska’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) …

By Tom Kaminski 19th March 2024

… pilot training programme in preparation for the frontline fighter force’s upcoming transition from the CF-188A/B Hornet … II. As part of the transition, the RCAF ended its Fighter Lead-In Training (FLIT) programme and has retired the … Borden, Ontario, where they will support training for RCAF aircraft technicians. … Canada axes CT-155 Hawk fleet as it …

By Khalem Chapman 24th January 2024

… F-35A Lightning II fifth-generation multi-role stealth fighter for the Royal Netherlands Air Force’s (RNLAF’s) No … Base on January 11. Prior to it landing at Leeuwarden, the fighter (F-039) conducted a flypast over Volkel Air Base , … 312 Squadron will be relocated to in the near future. The aircraft was built at the F-35 Final Assembly and Check Out …

By STEVE RICHARDS 20th March 2024

… Committee chaired by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Fighter Command Air Officer Commander-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) … month. The truth was that the twin-engined Blenheim night-fighter was under-gunned and underpowered, being slower than … over a blacked-out country while flying a single-engined aircraft. Impossible, that is, on all but a moonlit night. …

By Mark Ayton 7th February 2024

… Air Power Yearbook 2024’ Mark Ayton reports on the 25th Fighter Squadron, As with all US Air Force fighter squadrons based in the Republic of Korea, the … in July of that year the squadron received P-40 Kittyhawk aircraft. The 25th sailed aboard the SS President Coolidge on …

By DAN ZAMANSKY 13th April 2024

… SAB-50 flare bombs were scrambled to intercept a hostile aircraft in the Ura-Guba/Lake Kilpyavr area. At 20.25, Junior … be placed to the fleet’s air force HQ, and finally to the fighter regiment performing the interception. With the front … quantity. From that January, the headquarters of the 6th Fighter Aviation Brigade — which commanded the 2nd Guards …

By SANTIAGO RIVAS 3rd April 2022

… Rivas presents a revealing overview of the main Argentine aircraft used in the conflict Preparing to start the engine … IIIBEs (converted to IIIDA) in 1982, after the war. The aircraft were introduced to service at the Grupo 8 de Caza of … version of the French Dassault Mirage 5. Fifty-one fighter versions and ten two-seaters were assembled, from …

By Jamie Ewan 30th January 2024

… – former Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) CA-18 Mustang Mk.21 A68-110 … J Strait while commanding officer of the USAAF’s 356th Fighter Group 361st Fighter Squadron based out of Martlesham Heath in Suffolk …

By Patrick Roegies and Jochem Manders 15th May 2024

… and efficient given the advanced capabilities of both the aircraft and the simulator, and measures are underway to … flight schools. These schools are at Talavera La Real for fighter training, Salamanca-Matacán for transport training … are usually chosen to become the next generation of fighter pilots. Having completed the first three years, the …

By ROLAND BEAMONT 4th January 2024

… Joining the Tactics Branch of the Central Fighter Establishment at Tangmere in 1945, Roland Beamont … how it matched up to its Allied opposition The Central Fighter Establishment at Tangmere in July 1945 was a place of … the new Meteor jets and examples of captured enemy aircraft. But the testing, evaluation and training programmes …

By FlyPast 30th May 2024

… Fighter Aviation’s former RAAF Commonwealth CA-18 G-JERK took … noted Australian warbird pilot Cameron Rolph-Smith.  The aircraft represents P-51D Mustang 44-15152/QI-T ‘Jersey …

By Khalem Chapman 28th February 2024

… fleet of A-10C Thunderbolt II close air support (CAS) aircraft within the next three-to-five years, the 355th Wing … 6, when it was transferred from the 355th WG’s 354th Fighter Squadron (FS) ‘Bulldogs’ to the 309th Aerospace … with the aircraft being assigned to the 355th Tactical Fighter Wing and replacing the A-7D Corsair II attack …

By Tara Leggett 14th February 2022

… One of the last salvaged Japanese combat fighter aircraft of the Pacific War is being readied for shipment to … to Ron Cole & Cole's Aircraft Aviation Art … Japanese fighter to be restored in Ohio …