The Pentagon has given Lockheed Martin a $62 billion contract to build 90 F-16 fighters for Foreign Military Sale (FMS) customers. Graphic: Lockheed Martin Twenty-four of those fighters will be for Morocco while the rest is for Taiwan. Assembly will be carried out at the new F-16 plant at Greenville, South Carolina and all aircraft […]
The first Super Hornet painted in Blue Angels color while it was still in the paint shop.
The second Bayraktar Akıncı Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) prototype flew from Tekirdağ Çorlu Airport on Aug. 13.
The U.S. Air Force has announced the formal training and operational units for the F-15EX on Aug. 14. Photo: Boeing The 123rd Fighter Squadron at 142 Wing will be the first operational squadron to operate the new aircraft. It will make the transition in 2023. The 173rd Fighter Wing will be the formal training unit […]
A B-52H bomber assigned to Minot Air Force Base took off with AGM-86B air-launched cruise missiles (ALCM) in order to verify that the bomber could supply the required voltage levels to the missile’s interface with the W80-1 nuclear bomb.