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MANILA - Maj. Gen. Connor Anthony D. Canlas is now the head of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) following the mandatory retirement of Lt. Gen. Allen T. Paredes Tuesday. Retirement and change-of-command ceremonies took place at PAF headquarters at Villamor Air Base in Pasay City. Canlas is the PAF vice commander and former Air Defense Command chief, and a member of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class of 1989. In his speech, the new PAF chief lauded the service's leadership for the improvements and remarkable changes in the organization in the past years. He also lauded Paredes for sho...

No American military aircraft ever made has a mythos and a cultural impact anything like the North American P-51 Mustang. Say what you will about whether it's the legitimate best single-engined fighter of the war or not. But when most "normies" think of old warplanes, they think of the Mustang.

The Defense Ministry said: “Due to more frequent flights of various kinds of aviation near the Belarusian border and for the sake of preventing violations of the state border in air space a decision has been made in favor of reinforcing the air defense duty units and arranging joint patrols.”

Some people are still unsure.

According to Igor Golub, more than 60 flights of this kind were registered in the past week alone