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VX-9 ‘Vampires’ F/A-18F Super Hornet Brandishes Heavy Air-to-Air Loadout During Gray Flag 2024
The heavy loadout, featuring four AIM-174s, three AIM-120s and two AIM-9s, first spotted on "Vandy 1" at the beginning of ...
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VAW-123 Retires Its Last E-2C Hawkeye to the ‘Boneyard’
Airborne Command and Control Squadron 123 "Screwtops" have retired the E-2C to continue transition to the E-2D Advanced ...
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China’s J-35A Stealth Fighter to be Officially Unveiled at Zhuhai Air Show
With its arrival at Zhuhai airport, the PLAAF has officially unveiled the J-35A, the land-based variant of the J-35. China ...
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Prototypes of Su-57 Make Debut at Chinese Airshow, Offering Unprecedented Access to the ‘Felon’
The two Su-57s drew public attention in Zhuhai, though the reaction and commentary about the Russian jet were not particularly enthusiastic regarding its ...
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FRCSW Completes Final Maintenance On Its Last Legacy Hornet
FRCSW managed to push the Legacy F/A-18’s service hours well beyond its original 6,000-flight-hour expectation, with some ...
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USV and UUV Maritime Drones Tested at AUKUS’s Autonomous Warrior 24 in Australia
AUKUS countries are advancing their undersea warfare capabilities by expanding the ability to launch and recover uncrewed underwater systems from torpedo tubes on British and US submarines ...
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U.S. Air Force Chief Weighs In on Drone Employment in Ukraine, Middle East and Western Pacific
General David Allvin advised against directly replicating the drones used in Ukraine for immediate deployment in the maritime theater of Far East Asia. He stated that 150 CCAs would be integrated ...
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Everything You Need To Know About Last Year’s Bizarre ‘Unmanned’ F-35 Crash
The 2023 crash of the F-35B, which continued flying for 64 miles after the pilot ejected, was attributed to pilot error. The investigation revealed that the pilot ...
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Photographer Takes Breathtaking Images Of B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber During Test Flight
As happened with other B-21 photos we talked about recently, these shots don’t reveal new information about the bomber, since it was already known that the Raider is a twin-engine aircraft, and ...