Share this story Quick Facts Program: Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) Replacing: Boeing T-45C Goshawk (in service since 1991) Aircraft needed: 216 new jet trainers EMD cost cap: ~$1.8 billion Contract award: March 2027 Competitors: Boeing T-7B, Lockheed/KAI...
Share this story Quick Facts Who: Col. Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson (1922–2024) Record: 16¼ aerial victories — triple ace, 357th Fighter Group Aircraft: P-51 Mustang “Old Crow” Missions: 116 combat missions, never hit by enemy fire Ceremony:...
Share this story Quick Facts What: F-35A Lightning II crash with successful pilot ejection When: March 31, 2026, around noon local time Where: Nevada Test and Training Range, ~25 miles NE of Indian Springs Unit: 57th Wing, Nellis Air Force Base Pilot status: Safe,...
Share this story On the morning of March 31, two aircraft that barely anyone outside the electronic warfare community has heard of touched down at RAF Mildenhall in England. They had left Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona the day before, refuelled at McGuire in...
Share this story Related: Spain Bans American Warplanes from Its Skies Somewhere over the Atlantic, a group of U.S. bombers received a message no American military pilot expects to hear from a NATO ally: permission to land denied. Italy had blocked them from touching...
Share this story Related: Germany’s Loyal Wingman Race Heats Up Four days ago, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius stood on a tarmac in Australia and said the words Boeing had been waiting years to hear: the MQ-28 Ghost Bat was “under...
Share this story Two T-50i Golden Eagles arrived at Iswahjudi Air Base in East Java in early March, flown in pieces inside a Boeing 747 freighter and reassembled on the ground. Fuselage, wings, vertical tail, engine — each component traveled separately across more...
Share this story Somewhere in northern Germany on March 30, a small drone the size of a dinner table locked onto a kamikaze UAV streaking toward its target. Without any human input, it classified the threat, selected a weapon, and fired. The missile — weighing less...
Share this story Fifteen U.S. military aircraft lifted off from southern Spain on Sunday and scattered across Europe. Nine KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling planes flew north to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Two flights headed for southern France. Four more simply...
Share this story The T-45 Goshawk has been teaching Navy and Marine Corps pilots how to fly jets since 1991. Now, after more than three decades of carrier touch-and-goes, hard landings, and thousands of freshly winged aviators, the little British-designed trainer is...
Share this story At the Future Investment Priority Summit in Miami on March 28, Donald Trump made it official: “For the very first time, we agreed to sell Saudi Arabia perhaps the most capable fighter jet ever built, the F-35.” With that sentence, the...
Share this story In Kharkiv, a factory that makes industrial equipment now also shoots down Russian drones. On March 30, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced that a company called Carmine Sky had successfully downed Shahed and Zala drones using Sky Sentinel —...
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