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The new Air Force One ferried the president from Washington, DC to North Dakota. US President Donald Trump has logged the first executive flight aboard the US Air Force’s newest Air Force One presidential jet. Trump boarded the aircraft at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington, DC on 1 July and flew to Bismarck Municipal…
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) said its drones struck hangars holding Russian fighter jets at the Saki military airbase…
Saab has signed a contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for 16 new-build Gripen E fighters…
US and China are perhaps the only countries with the industrial base and funding to feasibly go it alone and develop a fullyfledged 6th-gen fighter.
The December event at Flabob Airport will include operator sessions, aircraft displays and youth programming.
Military expenditure rises, but MoD also announces “hard but necessary decisions”. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has published its long-awaited Defence Investment Plan (DIP), committing fresh funding to the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) and confirming a previously announced plan to buy 12 Lockheed Martin F-35As, but also detailing a series of new platform…
The UK's Defence Investment Plan, published on June 30, 2026, confirms funding for 12 Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters…
Two exceptionally rare World War Two aircraft of the German Luftwaffe are up for auction from an Australian…
Finland's Ministry of Defense, the Estonian Defense Forces, and the European defense AI lab NestAI signed a letter of intent…
F-Drones is the first Ukrainian producer authorised by Kyiv to export its uncrewed weapons to the US military. For the first time, a Ukrainian manufacturer of military drones is establishing a production line in the United States. F-Drones specialises in assembling the small, first-person view (FPV) quadcopters that have become ubiquitous with the more than…
The aircraft landed normally at JFK and a post-flight inspection found no damage.
The sortie included J-16 fighters escorting H-6K and Tu-95 strategic bombers. Russia and China have conducted a large joint air patrol over the East China Sea, including fighters, strategic bombers, aerial tankers and other support aircraft. The action on 27 June has been confirmed by both Beijing and Moscow, with China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA)…
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