Motivating the talks for Gripens and Typhoons, Defense Minister Rustem Umyerov said Russia currently uses up to 300 aircraft ...

An interesting strike mission saw the U.S. AH-64E Apaches teamed with British AW159 Wildcat helicopters acting as forward recon helicopters, which relayed ...

Two MH-47G Chinooks from the U.S. Army’s elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment have made a rare deployment to the ...

The newly formed State of Israel made use of the only thing available, it wasn’t the best and they didn’t have a lot of them, ...

Operation Polar Vortex demonstrated the ability to rapidly deploy forces to the Arctic in defense of the homelands, ...

The last two airplanes, tail numbers 96-8153 and 99-1933, were previous EC-130Js and converted to “slick” C-130Js. The 193rd ...

A Japanese P-1 Maritime Patrol Aircraft in flight. (Image credit: Kawasaki/Japan MoD) The Japan MoD said that aircraft like the EP-3, the EW variant of the P-3C Orion, itself being replaced by the P-1 ...

The F-16 in the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF). In order to answer to the many questions about the Italian F-16s people always ask me through the site, I’ve teamed up with ...

The First Use of Harpoon Missiles In Combat by U.S. Navy A-6 Intruders Operation Prairie Fire, launched in March 1986, was a ...

The following article was published on the May 2002 issue of Air Forces Monthly. With the pending withdrawal of the last PD-808GE, the Aeronautica Militare Italiana, seriously risks to loose an ...

The first of three Boeing E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft ordered by the Royal Air Force completed its first ...

Marks the End of an Era and Celebrates a Lasting Legacy Under the sweltering heat of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, 13 fighter ...