Military aviation news
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August 19, 2026
The GEK800 turbofan, jointly developed by GE Aerospace and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, has been assigned the… The post US Air Force adds GE-Kratos F143 as second engine source for JASSM…
Five US Navy personnel were rescued by the US Air Force after the MH-60S Seahawk helicopter they were aboard made a forced landing in a mountainous area near…
The 13-year-old 737-700 spent years as a classified USAF flying testbed before being transferred to NASA for a very different role
F-15 Eagle DACT Vs other ‘teen’ series of US fighters In 1969, it was announced that McDonnell Douglas had been selected as the prime airframe contractor of a new fighter for the USAF, the F-15. The…
StandardAero has been awarded a place on the US Air Force's (USAF) new maintenance contract for T56 engines, which power the C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft.
Rarely does a U.S. high-ranking officer respond so bluntly. Asked at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium (SMD) in Huntsville, Alabama, whether the country could repel a…
The Chinese-developed J-35 naval stealth fighter has drawn attention again after images released in August showed an aircraft with a highly reflective, mirror-like surface…
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Legacy C-130s form the backbone of Indonesia’s transport capabilities. Indonesian MRO firm GMF AeroAsia has completed upgrade work on a second Lockheed Martin C-130H tactical transport for the the…
The U.S. Air Force is planning to buy Chinese-made DJI drones for training purposes at a Wyoming air base that houses Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles. The 90th Missile Security…
A QF-16 can provide a target of similar size and performance to a fourth-generation fighter, but it is not designed to replicate the low-observability characteristics of…
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August 18, 2026
The United States Air Force (USAF) has been using the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jets for quite a few decades and had planned their full retirement before 2030…
Defense authorities want to know whether Washington will in the future allow Israel access to the sixth-generation fighter
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The incident temporarily closed one of the two runways servicing commercial traffic at the island’s Naha airport. A Boeing F-15J fighter jet operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF)…
The first F-35 for the German Luftwaffe left final assembly yesterday. Lockheed Martin has now allowed a video showing…
Over the course of yesterday and today, the governments of the United States and Argentina took a series of measures aimed at the Argentine Air Force's Peace Condor Program that affect the…
Defense officials reportedly want to determine whether Washington could eventually allow Israel access to the sixth-generation fighter
Two US Air Force HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters recovered five US Navy personnel from mountainous terrain near… The post USAF Jolly Green IIs rescue five after Navy MH-60S Seahawk hard landing…
The Tomcat Produced from 1969 to 1992 for the US Navy, the F-14 Tomcat was one of the last specialized fighters to reach production before the US military transitioned to using cost-saving multirole…
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Boeing has announced new seven-year framework agreements with the U.S. Department of War (DoW) and Raytheon, an RTX group company, to increase production…
As final assembly progresses at Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas facility, the first F-35A fighter for Germany entered the finishing phase…
New multi-year contract builds on more than 25 years of partnership with USAF on T56 platform SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – August 18, 2026 – StandardAero (NYSE: SARO), a leading independent pure-play…
The Patriot is one of the most advanced air-defense and anti-missile systems currently in service. Developed in the United States during the 1980s, it was originally conceived to…
Lockheed Martin, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, received an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $31.3 million for engineering and advisory services…
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Raytheon, an RTX Corporation company, announced it will dramatically accelerate production of BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles for the U.S. Navy over a period…
During just the early stages of the offensive, nearly 30% of US Tomahawk reserves had already been used, the same network reported back in April. In the current fiscal year, the Pentagon…
The US Air Force is rebuilding five bases with more than $19 billion, from Tinian's WWII airfield to Guam's $8 billion defense shield.
In Italy, the first components for the future Swiss Lockheed Martin F-35A fleet are being built. At the Leonardo plant in Cameri, a fuselage section and a wing for the fighter are made…
The US Department of War has signed with Boeing and RTX "two major framework agreements to increase production of key components for the Standard Missile-3…
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The US Navy awarded Raytheon, a company belonging to the RTX group, a $22.9 billion contract aimed at significantly increasing the production of cruise missiles…
Pakistan’s J-35 Move Could Strengthen US Case for Offering F-35 to India : US based Think Tank Group
This report was originally published on IDRW.org. Pakistan’s reported move toward acquiring China’s J-35 fifth-generation fighter could strengthen the strategic argument in Washington for... The…
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