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January 21, 2023 Here’s Our First Look At A British Supplied Sea King Helicopter In Ukrainian Service Helicopters
January 21, 2023 Up Close And Personal With The One And Only Kawasaki EC-1 Electronic Warfare Aircraft Military Aviation
January 20, 2023 U.S. Air Force And Navy Aggressors Receive Upgraded F-16Cs From Air National Guard Military Aviation
January 18, 2023 Ukrainian Super Puma Helicopter Crash Near Kyiv Kills 18, Including Ukraine’s Ministry Of Interior Aviation Safety / Air Crashes
January 18, 2023 Development Of An Active Flow Control X-Plane For DARPA Progresses Military Aviation

RAF F-35B Lightnings Bound to Nellis AFB for Their First Red Flag Exercise Diverted To Lajes

January 22, 2020 David Cenciotti

Alleged fuel transfer anomalies experienced by a Voyager tanker forced the 5 F-35s to perform an unscheduled visit to Lajes. On Jan. 22, 2020, five RAF F35B Lightining belonging to 617 Sqn “Dambusters”, departed their […]

British F-35s Have Completed Their First Operational Missions Over Iraq and Syria

June 25, 2019 David Cenciotti

The RAF Lightning deployed to RAF Akrotiri have carried out the first combat sorties last week. The Royal Air Force has become the fourth air arm (after the Israeli Air Force, the U.S. Marine Corps […]