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Groups have filed a legal challenge with Britain´s High Court calling for the U.K. to stop granting licenses for weapons exports to Israel.

At the time of its development in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the F-35 incorporated systems that were at the bleeding edge of combat aircraft design. It still dominates today. 

The F-35 and NGAD will have some apparent differences that will shape the U.S. military for decades to come. 

The US has greenlit a potential Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to South Korea, entailing a package of F-35 ammunition valued at around $271 million.

In 2020, an epic video depicting 26 F-22s partaking in an “Elephant Walk” on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, widely circulated.

The Boeing X-32 was developed as a concept demonstrator aircraft for the Joint Strike Fighter competition after it merged with the Common Affordable Lightweight Fighter (CALF) program

After a nearly two-decade hiatus, the United States Air Force completed its first William Tell Air-to-Air Competition back in September at the Air Dominance Center in Savannah, Georgia.

In March 2019, the United States Air Force didn't just conduct just another "elephant walk" – the term for taxiing a large number of aircraft before takeoff. The F-22 Raptor went into the sky.

The AV-8B Harrier II was as much a "star" of the 1994 film True Lies as Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jamie Lee Curtis – and it also was the aircraft that literally saved humanity in the lackluster 2000 film Battlefield Earth.

The Air Force now has the B-61-12 tactical nuclear bomb ready for operational use on its 20 B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.