Aviation

In an exclusive interview at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Col. Luke Spathes and Lt. Col. Reinier Villanueva discuss rapid mobility, integration with F-22s, and the challenges of operating in the vast Indo-Pacific. It’s July 30, 2025,…
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Though no official comment has been made, sources informed Janes and Aviation Week that the RAF’s MQ-9A fleet was withdrawn on Sept. 30, as the MQ-9B Protector RG1 readies for operational deployment. Based entirely overseas for their…
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Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid development and production, along with supply issues once in theater. Originally designed…
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The 431st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron was activated for the first time since WW2 at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, to operate MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. 82 years after it was first formed, a ceremony held on Sept.…
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The Dust Devils of VX-31 concluded the AV-8B Harrier’s service with a sundown flight at China Lake. The Dust Devils of the U.S. Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 31 concluded the AV-8B Harrier’s service with a sundown flight…
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The significant airfield repair and upgrade work might support frontline fighters in the future, as the U.S. develops distributed basing to counter China in the western Pacific. As a part of its plan to revive old World War Two-era…
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Following the Russian drone incursion in Poland, a RNLAF F-35A has received a drone kill marking below the canopy rail. A Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) F-35A of the 313th Squadron has received a drone kill marking after shooting…
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Each Army Reserve Aviation Command unit’s ‘final mission’ put as many aircraft in the air as possible in California, Kansas, and Texas as one last opportunity to overfly the communities where most of the members of the Army Reserve live…
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The U.S. Air Force planned in 2024 to certify the F-117A Nighthawk to be able to refuel from the KC-46A Pegasus, the service’s newest tanker. Two F-117 Nighthawks have been spotted while refueling from a KC-46 Pegasus tanker on Sept. 30,…
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The T-260B basic trainer, assigned to the 70th Wing, crashed in a national park southeast of Rome. A T-260B basic trainer of the Italian Air Force crashed in the morning of Oct. 1, 2025, in the Circeo national park near Sabaudia, about…
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