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U.S. Deploys F-16s to Bulgaria for Yet Another Black Sea Exercise Eight U.S. F-16 multirole combat aircraft arrived at the Graf Ignatievo Air Base in Bulgaria on July 9 for this year’s iteration of the Thracian Star military exercise. The joint American-Bulgarian air force exercise is being conducted to, according to U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Force Africa, “enhance the ability to rapidly deploy to remote locations and provide credible force to assure stability for the region.” The...

NATO Aircraft Participated in Turkish-Pakistani Air Combat Exercise NATO’s Allied Air Command reported that the military bloc participated in the multinational air combat exercise Anatolian Eagle 2021, which occurred from June 21 to July 2. Hosted by Turkey at its Third Main Jet Base in Konya, the war games included combat aircraft from Turkey, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Qatar. All four nations are NATO members or partners. Earlier the Turkish Defense Ministry also confirmed that NATO was condu...

News From Antiwar.com NATO reports that it conducted what is described as air defense exercises in the Black Sea on July 2. Evidently the maneuvers were independent of the 32-nation Sea Breeze naval and air exercises occurring simultaneously. And of the recent port visits and participation in exercises by the HMS Defender guided-missile destroyer and the HNLMS Evertsen frigate in the same sea, the first almost triggering an international incident if not a war on June 23. U.S. and NATO warship...

News From Antiwar.com On June 29-30 NATO members and partners conducted air exercises over the Baltic Sea and the Baltic states. Twenty aircraft from NATO members Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey and NATO Enhanced Opportunities Partner Finland participated in second iteration of the Ramstein Alloy exercise. The alliance gave its account of the event the headline of As part of what appears to be designed to keep Russian radar and military observers on a 365-days-a-year alert in the region,...

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Unparalleled Global Strike Capability: US Nuclear-Capable Bombers End Month-Long Mission With Flight Through Arctic, Pacific American B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers have completed a month-long mission to Europe and Africa by flying over the Arctic, North Africa and the Pacific Ocean on June 17 and 18, The B-52s had been forward-deployed to the Morón Air Base by arrangement with NATO ally Spain and served under the commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa, General Ge...

Moscow's embassy in Washington has warned that the presence of nuclear-capable American warplanes at recent NATO exercises is a serious escalation and could overshadow the upcoming summit between the leaders of the two nations. Responding on...

The military career of a Buckley Space Force Base commander remains in limbo after comments he made on a podcast last month got him in hot water.

Head of Operations defends military's actions in Gaza, says it called off missiles in mid-air due to concerns over casualties

We have obtained the photos of the first intercept by F-35 supporting NATO Baltic Air Policing mission last month.