F-35Bs Armed With Gun Pod Continue Supporting Operation Octave Quartz With Armed Aerial Patrols over Somalia
The U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs are among the combat aircraft supporting OOQ (Operation Octave Quartz) in the Horn of Africa. Octave Quartz is the name of the U.S. operation to…
Italian Navy Cavour Aircraft Carrier To Start F-35B STOVL Aircraft Qualifications With The U.S. Marine Corps Next Month
The Cavour aircraft carrier will carry out F-35B STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) qualification off the U.S. East Coast. The Italian Navy Cavour aircraft carrier is about to start…
RAF Typhoon’s Sonic Boom “Rattles Windows” From Cambridge To London During Quick Reaction Alert Operation
The RAF Typhoon aircraft were scrambled to intercept a civilian aircraft that lost comms with the Air Traffic Control agencies in UK airspace. A loud sonic boom was heard across…
Northrop Grumman Selected To Demonstrate A New Electronic Warfare Suite For The F-16
The new Electronic Warfare suite will provide the F-16 full-spectrum radar warning, threat identification and advanced countermeasure capabilities against modern EW threats. The U.S. Air Force selected Northrop Grumman to…
That Time A B-52H Stratofortress Bomber Lost Its Tail Over New Mexico But Managed To Land 6 Hours Later.
The story of the first and only B-52H Stratofortress's tailless landing! On Jan. 10, 1964, Boeing civilian test pilot Chuck Fisher and his three man crew launched from Wichita, Kansas,…
MBDA SPEAR 3 Selected As The British F-35B’s Primary Air-to-Ground Weapon
The new SPEAR 3 next-generation network enabled missile will allow the Lightning Force to perform cost efficient stand-off, high precision attacks with low chance of collateral damage. The United Kingdom…
