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Aviano Air Base, Italy, participated in exercise INIOCHOS 21 at Andravida Air Base April 12–22. The exercise was a Hellenic air force-sponsored operational and tactical level field training exercise, hosted by the Hellenic Air Tactics Center at Greece’s fighter weapons school. The aim was to enhance combat readiness and fighting capability, while providing participants the opportunity to develop capabilities planning and conduct complex air operations in a multinational, joint-force environ...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Soldiers of Company D, 1st Battalion, 165th Infantry Regiment, the Army’s famous “Fighting 69th” Irish regiment, move into position to replace French troops near Benomenil, France, March 1, 1918. (U.S. Army file photo 1918) Flag raised for 1st time at World War I memorial By Department of Defense News WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s capital has national memorials commemorating the sacrifices of service men and women who died in World War II, Korea and Viet...

The two countries made for strange bedfellows. Heres What You Need to Know: Tel Aviv funneled vital arms to Tehran during the 1980s despite the Ayatollah’s increasingly anti-Israeli rhetoric. At dawn on September 30, 1980 four American-made F-4E Phantom jets screamed low over central Iraq, each laden with air-to-air missiles and three thousand pounds of bombs.  Prior to entering Iraqi airspace they had rendezvoused for aerial refueling with a Boeing 707 tanker escorted by two more advance...

P-40 Warhawk pilot accounted for from World War II RADIO.COM 3 hrs ago © Provided by RADIO.COM P-40 Warhawk pilot accounted for from World War II The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Robert Parker, 23, of Lansing, Michigan, killed during World War II, was accounted for March 9, 2021. In November 1943, Parker was a pilot assigned to the 35th Fighter Squadron, 8th Fighter Group. On Nov. 15, he was piloting a P-40N Warhawk fighter on a...

Search for: Home » Aviation » HASC: Congress Let DoD Buy Too Many F-35 Fighters But Not Enough F-35 Spares, Sustainment HASC: Congress Let DoD Buy Too Many F-35 Fighters But Not Enough F-35 Spares, Sustainment April 22, 2021 5:59 PM Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Cosme Zamora, from Compton, Calif., assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6), signals an F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) o...

Idaho Sweeps Top Honors During Hawgsmoke 2021 Photo By Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur | Idaho National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt II pilots and their crews come home to Boise as...... read moreread more Photo By Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur | Idaho National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt II pilots and their crews come home to Boise as the 2021 Hawgsmoke Overall Team champions. The Hawgsmoke is a biennial aerial compet...

22 U.S. Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft assigned to the 492th Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, England; F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 480th Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany; and C-130J Super Hercules aircraft assigned to the 37th Airlift Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, arrived in Poland to participate in an Agile Combat Employment exercise during Aviation Detachment Rotation 21....

Italian web newspaper) explains the framework of the growing crisis. Translation: John Catalinotto. Ukraine’s neo-Nazis killed dozens of activists by burning down Trade Union House, May 2, 2014. U.S. F-16 fighter jets, sent from the Aviano base, are engaged in “complex air operations” in Greece, where the Iniochos 21 exercise began April 12. They belong to the 510th Fighter Squadron stationed at Aviano, northern Italy, whose role is indicated by their emblem: the symbol of the atom, with ...

The F-35’s detractors have long questioned its capabilities and reliability, but the fifth-generation fighter’s stellar performance record in a series of recent high-profile exercises should put many of those fears to rest. First held in 1975, Red Flag is the premier air combat exercise of the U.S. Air Force (USAF). Over the span of three weeks, around 100 aircraft are tested in a variety of air-to-air, air-to-ground, space, reconnaissance, and electronic warfare scenarios. It was at the Re...

White House press briefing interrupted by flyover for new WWI memorial Low-flying F-22 Raptors momentarily interrupted the White House press briefing on Friday as their roar could be heard and felt in buildings in and around downtown Washington. While describing President Joe Biden’s upcoming schedule for next week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki had to pause and say: “Wow — there’s a plane right overhead, just for anyone tuning in online.” She was nearly drowned out by the noi...