A poll conducted by Swiss broadcaster SRF showed that 58 percent of the respondents are in favor of the country buying new fighter jets. Peter Gronemann from Switzerland [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons The Swiss will vote in a referendum next month to approve a $6.6 billion project to buy new fighters. The margin […]
Nigel Pittaway reports that ten of the Boeing CH-47F helicopters that Singapore purchased in 2016 will be delivered straight to the Australian Army Aviation Training Centre at Oakey. Shiftchange / CC0 The island bought 16 helicopters and the remaining ones will be shipped to Singapore. The deliveries will commence in the first quarter of 2021. […]
The 48th Fighter Wing’s 493rd Fighter Squadron won the 2020 Raytheon Trophy.
HX-21 went out to sea with its MV-22 on board USS Wasp in May to test a new flight control capability at sea. The new attitude mode allows the pilot to use lateral stick motion to control the attitude, rather than the rate, of the aircraft’s roll. This mode was recently certified for use in […]
The U.S. Air Force has reactivated the Fifteenth Air Force on Aug. 20 under Air Combat Command. The Fifteenth Air Force was first established in 1943 as the Mediterranean theater’s air force. Units under its umbrella are from fighters, RPAs, search and rescue, command and control plus Red Horse squadrons. These units were previously under […]
The delayed AlphaDogfight Trials has concluded and the winner is the artificial intelligence pilot from Heron Systems. In the final part of the trial, the system from Heron Systems beat a U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot from the Weapons Instructor Course five times with no losses of its own. The software had earlier defeated other […]