News Archive

Approximately 150 members of the 14th FS together with members of a range of support units drawn from the 35th Fighter Wing prepared to return to Misawa AB today after spending about a month away participating in Northern Edge 2009. ...

Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI), has signed a deal with Pakistan's Defence Production Ministry this Monday to modernise 42 of the countries F-16 aircraft....

The Obama administration finally agreed to Egypt's longstanding request to purchase 24 new Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter aircraft....

Since their arrival in Kandahar in September 2008 four Belgian F-16s have jointly flown 2000 flight hours. ...

The debate over the F-22 has shown that some have no limit to the amount of ignorance they can acquire. Since there are a large amount of people that can’t explain why they want to cancel it or keep it going, finding true clarity is a challenge....

On June 26, 2009, Gen. Norton Schwartz, Air Force Chief of Staff, announced the proposed force structure realignment for Fiscal Year 2010. The realignment is an attempt to provide the Air Force a way to use current resources to complete its mission ... to fly, fight and win in air, space and cyberspace. ...

The White House threatened yesterday that it might veto the 2010 defence bill to fund the F-35 alternative engine program....

As the target approaches, sights are set and AIM 9 and AIM 120 missiles launch from a Luke Air Force Base F-16 Fighting Falcon, engulfing the enemy aircraft in flames....

An Israeli F-16 downed a small Chinese Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in a training exercise on Tuesday....

An F-16 assigned to the 388th FW has crashed in a remote part of the Utah Test And Training Range on Monday night at 22:25h local time. The pilot did not survive....

The prospect of an export version of the F-22 Raptor fighter moved a step closer last week as House lawmakers discussed the possibility of selling the advanced fighter overseas....

Air Force F-22 Raptors soar through the skies of Okinawa bringing formidable air dominance, stealth and an overwhelming advantage that is unrivaled by any aircraft making it the modern marvel of this era. ...

With a mere 31 against 30 votes the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday approved an extra funding amendment for 12 additional F-22 Raptor fighters....

Five Polish Air Force F-16s departed for Greece from the Krzesiny base, near Poznan for a Squadron Exchange exercise....

Pratt & Whitney has delivered the first 6,000 cycle production hardware for assembly of the F100-PW-229 engine enhancement package (EEP). ...

Pakistani Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, flew of over the Swat valley in the North West Frontier Province to see first hand the ongoing fight against the militants who have besieged the region....

A detailed, full-scale representation of the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter rolled out of the Fort Worth factory today, with production-representative Very Low Observable airframe structure and coatings. ...

PPG Industries aerospace transparencies has begun producing replacement canopy transparencies for F-16s with a new-generation coating system and has resumed full production rates. ...

The House Armed Services Air and Land Forces Sub-committee has delivered a blow to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) business plan....

L-3 Link Simulation is building a new generation of military jet trainers that uses high-definition video and take real-world realism up a couple of notches....

The 122nd Fighter Wing's heritage jet will take its final flight today at the 122nd Fighter Wing before it is given to the Air Force Museum and subsequently kept on base as a static display. ...

The F-22 Raptor Increment 3.1 Modification Team with the 412th Test Wing recently received the opportunity to represent the Air Force Materiel Command in the Air Force for the Chief of Staff Team Excellence Award. ...

The United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, commonly known as the 'Thunderbirds,' announced incoming officer selections today for the 2010 demonstration season. ...

On May 13 two F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots climbed into their jets and took to the skies over Northern Japan for a first of its kind training mission....

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the initial flight-ready integrated communications, navigation and identification (CNI) system for the F-35 joint strike fighter program. ...

A Hellenic Air Force F-16C block 50 from 347 Mira crashed today during a training flight, 5 miles East of the city of Ioannina at 10:33h local time. The jet was identifed as being #93-1059....

Twelve of the Air Force's newest Viper pilots culminate nine months of demanding training and receive their graduation certificates June 6 at Luke Air Force Base. ...

Since returning from a deployment to Iraq, the 14th Fighter Squadron has spent the last three months executing a training plan to get all the pilots current and proficient in their home station mission. ...

The US Department of Defense has awarded Lockheed Martin a $2.1 billion contract modification to produce 17 F-35 Lightning II fighters in the third lot of low-rate initial production (LRIP). ...