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If you live in central Wisconsin and hear jets rattling the windows for the next two weeks, that is Sentry North. The 2026 edition of the Air National Guard’s major combat training exercise kicked off on June 1 at Volk Field Air National Guard Base, and it will...
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Editor’s Update (June 2026): Malaysia’s Cabinet officially cancelled the planned purchase of Kuwait’s retired F/A-18C/D Hornets on 6 February 2026. The background analysis below on Malaysia’s fighter gap and the strategic rationale for the deal...
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Somewhere at a Dassault Aviation facility in southern France, Indonesian Air Force pilots are learning to fly one of Europe’s most capable fighters. The training has been underway since 2025, and a second phase of domestic instruction is now running in parallel...
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The United States has notified NATO that it intends to cut by 50% the long-range strike capabilities allocated to the defence of Europe. The announcement, expected to be formalised at the June NATO conference on force distribution, marks the most significant American...
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French Rafale pilots operating from Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania have been having a busy spring. Since France took command of the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission on March 31, their four Rafale B fighters have scrambled repeatedly to intercept Russian combat...
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On May 29, the warhead of an Iranian-made Shahed drone detonated on the roof of an apartment building in Galați, eastern Romania. Two people were injured. Several more were evacuated while firefighters fought the blaze. It was the first time a Russian drone had ever...
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Twenty warnings. More than twenty radio calls, signal flares, and direct hails. The crew of the Gambian-flagged M/V Lian Star ignored every one. On May 29, somewhere in the opal waters of the Gulf of Oman, a U.S. aircraft fired an AGM-114 Hellfire missile into the...
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On the afternoon of April 3, somewhere over the scrubby hills of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in southwestern Iran, a shoulder-fired missile — roughly seven feet long and weighing about 40 pounds — slammed into an F-15E Strike Eagle from the 494th Fighter...
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