A three-person crew of a skiff was rescued after a coordinated search by aircrews from Australia, Micronesia and United States. They had gone missing on Jul. 30 and were stranded on Pikelot Island, 190km west of where they had set off in Pulawat. The men made a SOS message on the beach which was spotted […]

Israel’s Channel 12 television station reported on Aug. 2 that the Israeli Air Force is sending its fighter jets to Germany for joint exercise with the Luftwaffe next month and the pilots will be flying over the Dachau concentration camp and Olympic Village in Munich to honor the memory of those who perished there. Ori.ravenna […]

Testers from the U.S. Air Force’s 40th Flight Test Squadron and the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron carried out the first four-ship F-16 formation test of the new APG-83 AESA radar on Jul. 2. The mission objective was to determine if the jets experience interference when all four radars are active at the same time […]

Reuters reports that Serbia has bought the FK-3 air defense missile system from China, the FK-3 is the export variant of the HQ-22. The information was disclosed by state-run arms company Jugoimport SDPR’s annual report, submitted to the state Business Registers Agency last week and seen by Reuters. This is the first time that such […]

A news report in Japan quoted a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) official as saying that the upgraded F-15JSI (Japan Super Interceptor) will be a multirole fighter. Graphic: Boeing The anonymous official said that in the past, the Mitsubishi F-2 fighter was given anti-ship and ground attack roles while the F-15 was an air superiority […]