Royal Australian Air Force Base Tindal has begin to receive upgrades in order to host a permeant presence of U.S. Air Force B-52H nuclear capable intercontinental range bombers. The facility has long been seen as a key potential centre of American power projection capabilities into East Asia,
The U.S. Air Force’s ambitious sixth generation fighter program is expected to see laser weapons form a central part of its arsenal, according to new declassified reports. Development by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in cooperation with the Air Force has been heavily invested in
The Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter has continued to make major gains in global arms markets, consistently sweeping aside competition from the European Gripen, Eurofighter and Rafale to which it has not lost a single contract. Nowhere have these gains been more pronounced than in Europe
An enhanced version of Russia’s Su-57 next generation fighter was confirmed to have performed its maiden flight on October 21, with this reported by the state run United Aircraft Corporation days later. Details regarding the new variant were scarce, except for that it flew at the Gromov Flight
The Korean People’s Army (KPA) Air Force, the official name of the North Korean military’s air service, is expected to receive two sophisticated new air to air missiles to equip its existing fighter fleet as part of ongoing modernisation efforts – according to a new report by expert on East Asian
The U.S. Air Force is set to withdraw its F-15C/D Eagle air superiority fighters from Kadena Air Base in Japan, sparking criticisms from within America and raising significant questions regarding what kind of units could replace them. Located in Okinawa, southern Japan, Kadena has for decades been
The world’s largest defence manufacturer Lockheed Martin has released a new concept art for a sixth generation fighter currently under development to equip the U.S. Air Force under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, which is expected to produce an aircraft for active service by 2030.
In the early 1970s the Imperial Iranian Air Force sought to acquire an advanced fourth generation air superiority fighter, something no nation other than the United States had in service at the time. Iran’s military had long enjoyed a special relationship and maintained extensive connections with
As Russian and Ukrainian forces and their various external supporters continue to focus attentions on a struggle for the city of Kherson, which both countries now claim as their own territory, the possibility has increasingly been raised by analysts on all sides that a new front against the Ukrainian Military could be opened on the country’s northern
Forming almost all carrier based fighter units in the United States Navy, the F-18E/F/ Super Hornet first entered service in xx and remains in production today to form new squadrons. The aircraft was for several years the only fourth generation fighter on order by the Pentagon, with the F-16 and
