After 43 Years, the Marines Are Retiring the Legacy Hornet
The United States Marine Corps has flown the F/A-18 Hornet since 1983. Every Marine fighter pilot of the last four decades trained on it. The Corps used it over Iraq, over Afghanistan, over the Balkans. It flew from U.S. Navy supercarriers in regular squadron...
Every F-35 in the World Is Getting a $991M Electronic Warfare Retrofit
On 15 May 2026 the U.S. Navy quietly awarded Lockheed Martin one of the largest single-line modernisation contracts in the entire F-35 programme: $991 million for 432 electronic warfare modification kits, distributed across the U.S. Air Force, Marines, Navy, and...
The AIM-260 JATM Finally Breaks Cover — On a Super Hornet
For more than five years, the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile has been one of the most carefully guarded weapons programmes inside the United States Department of Defense. There were no public photographs. No leaks. No images on any test range. The Pentagon...
Argentina Retires the A-4 Skyhawk After 60 Years — F-16s Take the Watch
For 60 years, the Argentine Air Force flew the A-4 Skyhawk. The compact little Douglas attack jet — designed in California in 1952 for the United States Navy — became a Latin American workhorse, a Falklands warrior, and one of the last vintage combat aircraft in...
Two Navy Growlers Collide Mid-Air Over Idaho — All Four Crew Survive
At about 12:10 in the afternoon on Sunday, the crowd at the Gunfighter Skies Air Show in Idaho was watching two U.S. Navy EA-18G Growlers fly the kind of low, sharp formation pass that demo teams have practised thousands of times. A few seconds later, the two jets...
Gift a Fighter Jet Flight: The Ultimate Present Guide
Every year, millions of people face the same impossible question: what do you give someone who has everything? Another watch? A restaurant voucher? A subscription box? For the person in your life who craves adventure — the one who lights up at the sound of a jet...
The Time the USAF Launched Bears Out of a Supersonic Bomber
During the Cold War, the US Air Force had a problem. They had built the B-58 Hustler — the first operational bomber capable of Mach 2 — but nobody knew if a human could survive ejecting from an aircraft traveling at twice the speed of sound. The solution? Strap bears...
Aviation’s Most Expensive Oops Moments — Ranked by Dollar Damage
In aviation, mistakes don’t come cheap. A dropped wrench isn’t just an “oops” — it’s potentially a multi-million dollar catastrophe. A moment of inattention on the runway can vaporize more money than most people will earn in several...
Aviation’s Most Expensive Overreactions
In aviation, caution saves lives. Nobody disputes that. But there’s a fine line between prudent safety culture and spending $300,000 to scramble two fighter jets because a spider crawled across a smoke detector. That line gets crossed more often than you’d...
MiGFlug’s Most Extreme Locations: Where Adrenaline Meets Scenery
MiGFlug doesn’t just offer fighter jet flights — they offer fighter jet flights in some of the most jaw-dropping locations on the planet. While the aircraft alone would be enough to justify the trip, the scenery below adds an entirely different dimension to the...
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