One B-52 Stratofortress from the 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksdale AFB, La., two B-52s from the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot AFB, N.D., and two B-2 Spirits from the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman AFB, Mo., are conducting simultaneous, non-stop flights from the U.S. to the North and Baltic Seas, around the North Pole and over Alaska, and […]

Boeing Co (BA.N) has been awarded a $640 million contract for spare parts used in F/A-18 aircraft, the Pentagon said on Monday. The Defense Department added that Boeing had received two other orders to manufacture more spare parts for the F/A-18. The first was for $220.9 million and the second was for $123.2 million, it said in other […]

Recent reports emerged that the Indian government cancelled the much coveted deal for 6 Airbus A330 MRTT (Multi Role Tanker Transport) aircraft. While the news sending shocks in the already struggling Indian Air Force. The the Indian Air Force first acquired mid-air refueling tanker aircraft from TAPA (Tashkent Aviation Production Association) in 2001 the same […]

From July 21 to 22, the 60th Transport group of Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC) had a ‘training and evaluation of supporting for air transportation’ with the Army, Marine corps and Korea airport service at the 5th Air Mobility Wing. It was the 24th such training this year, but for the first time, Army Logistics […]

A helicopter crashed in the north of Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said, and the pilot was taken from the wreckage. The Observatory said it could not confirm whether the helicopter was Syrian or Russian. Images shared on social media purportedly showed a dead body and Russian […]

Two Polish F-16 multirole fighters forced to land by Russian light aircraft which crossed the border and headed to Krakow. According to the newspaper «Polska the Times», two F-16 multirole fighters of the Polish air force intercepted a Russian light aircraft that crossed the border and flew in the direction of Krakow. The pilot was […]

Five helicopters OH-58D Kiowa Warrior from the project of equipping the Armed Forces reconnaissance and attack helicopters in support of the Government and the Armed Forces of the United States, delivered today, Saturday 30 July 2016 at 93. Air Force Base of the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence ( CAF) in barracks Zemunik. The […]

Demanding targets are being met in the build-up to delivery of Airbus Helicopters’ commitment to the UK Military Flying Training System (MFTS). Today, the company has carried out the first flight of the initial UK MFTS aircraft, bringing delivery one step closer. With 12 UK MFTS aircraft already in production at the company’s site in […]

In June, the Central AeroHydrodynamic Institute named after professor N.E. Zhukovsky (TsAGI) completed tests on flutter characteristics of the dynamically scaled model of the new light transport aircraft IL-112 developed for Russian air force. The tests were conducted in TsAGI’s large subsonic wind tunnel.  Scale model is 1: 5, wingspan – 5.3 m, weight – 300 kg. To ensure standardized reserves […]

Two J-11 fighter jets of People’s Liberation Army Navy fly in formation for a sortie during an air combat training exercise. An aviation division of the South China Sea Fleet with the PLA Navy organized its J-11 fighter jets to conduct an air combat training exercise recently in undisclosed waters in the South China Sea. Earlier China […]