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The move is supposed to mitigate the operational security threats posed by open-source ADS-B systems. Earlier this year, we reported about the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command making a drastic change to its fleet [...]

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Let’s have a closer look at three major updates from the 54th Paris Air Show. With the Paris Air Show (PAS23) over, this is a deeper dive into the three major updates to come out [...]

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Years after the Navy, the Air Force decided to supplement its tanker fleet with commercial aerial refueling services. The U.S. Air Force employed for the first time last month a commercial aerial refueling service to [...]

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The U.S. Navy delivered to Boeing the first Block II aircraft that will be upgraded to the new Block III configuration. With a short video clip released on social media, Boeing announced the arrival at [...]

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With the Rafale M winning against the F/A-18 Super Hornet, India is now set to become the type’s first export operator. The Indian government announced the selection of the Dassault Rafale M, the naval variant [...]

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After its display at RIAT (Royal International Air Tattoo), the B-52 Stratofortress bomber hit 18 runway lights with the outrigger wheel. As usual, one of the highlights of RIAT 2023’s flying display this year was [...]

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China protested after a U.S. Navy P-8, tracking online, flew over Taiwan Strait. On Jul. 13, 2023, at around 03.00AM UTC (11.00AM LT), a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon, flew through the Taiwan Strait, west of [...]

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Phantastic phootage from Phantom Conference 2023. After the successful first edition in 2022, on July 10 and 11, Andravida Air Base, in the Northwest Peloponnese, Greece, hosted once again the annual European Phantom Conference (PhanCon [...]

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The most recent iteration of Jolly Vihar saw three Pave Hawks from Aviano Air Base, Italy, deploy to Pápa Air Base, Hungary. From June 26 to July 7, 2023, three HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters belonging [...]

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The mysterious silhouette of a next generation aircraft featured in an Instagram story earlier this month is associated with a new logo also teased online recently. As we have reported in details, on Jul. 1, [...]

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A day after the previous incident, a new one is being reported and it involves US MQ-9s and French Rafales. For the second time in two days, the US Central Command is reporting new incidents [...]

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A video recorded by the drones’ sensors shows the Flankers lighting up the afterburners and releasing flares in front of the Reapers. After the collision with an MQ-9A Reaper over the Black Sea earlier this [...]

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We have attended the 54th International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget. After four years the aircraft industry reunited again at Le Bourget, for the 54th Paris Air Show. A total of 380,000 visitors gathered [...]

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Photos posted online show the bomb’s Mk-80 series body and part of its glide kit, as well as a Storm Shadow missile carried by a Su-24 using a modified pylon from the Tornado GR4. New [...]

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Here’s our in depth report about one of the most interesting events in Europe this year: Leszno Antidotum Air Show. On the Jun. 16 – 17, 2023 weekend, Leszno Airfield in Poland (EPLS) became a [...]

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The aircraft might be the Lockheed Martin’s design for the NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance) or some other secretive program. On Jul. 1, 2023, Lockheed Martin’s official account posted an interesting Instagram story to celebrate [...]

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One by one, all the formations that took part in the massive flying parade which featured all the assets currently in service, including an MQ-9A Predator B RPA (at the type’s first in-flight appearance at [...]

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The new embedded GPS/INS (EGI-M) system will allow operation in GPS-contested and GPS-denied environments. Northrop Grumman has successfully tested in flight the new Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) / Inertial Navigation System (INS) Modernization, also [...]

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This first USAF flight, which validated key aspects of the next-generation trainer, marks the start of the engineering and manufacturing development phase. A U.S. Air Force test pilot finally flew at the commands of a [...]

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The team aboard VSS Unity will work on 13 science payloads during a 90-minute suborbital flight. A joint team of the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council will launch on the first commercial [...]

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