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The Philosophy Behind the Fighter Jet Design
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Saudi Arabia Largest Importer Of Arms, U.S. Largest Exporter Of Arms
Over a third of the global weapons sold worldwide during the past five years came from the United States. About half of US arms transfers went to the Middle East. The US accounted for 37% […]
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F-15EX First Flight Clearing Path To Delivery To USAF
The new Boeing F-15EX fighter jet completed its first flight today, paving the way for the early delivery of the first two jets to the U.S. Air Force later this quarter. The jet took off […]
Middle East
Analysis: Had The U.S. Secretly Approved Sale Of F-22 Raptor To Israel?
Former US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told Israeli officials during a visit to Israel last October 2020 that the Trump administration secretly approved selling F-22 stealth fighters to the Jewish state, according to a […]
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Israel Sells 29 Retired F-16s To American Top Aces Company
Twenty-nine retired Israeli F-16 fighter jets were sold to a North American company on Wednesday in a major arms deal worth tens of millions of dollars, the Defense Ministry said. The planes were purchased by […]
Americas
Saab Gripen shines in Alaska Red Flag exercise
Gripen first participated in Red Flag 2006 with the Gripen A. It was assigned to the red team. It scored 10 kills the first day including a Typhoon. The evaluation was that Gripen capacity needed […]
Air-Launched Weapons
GBU-57 MOP: The Knockout Punch of The US Air Force
The Air Force has given Boeing a mulit-million contract to procure the GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrator – a bomb designed to destroy hardened underground targets like those found in North Korea or Iran. The announcement does not […]
Air-Launched Weapons
The U.S. Air Force to build multi-role hypersonic missile
It’s called “Mayhem” – and it intends to do just that on the battlefield, reported Air Force magazine. An air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of carrying multiple payloads, perform surveillance and reconnaissance and other intelligence functions, […]
Americas
U.S. Air Force sends three B-2 stealth bombers to Diego Garcia
Three American B-2 stealth bombers have arrived in the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia on the eve of Chinese live-firing naval exercises north of Taiwan. It is the first time the nuclear-capable strategic bombers […]
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Badass F-15EX: U.S. Air Force wants 72 of them
Once F-22 and F-35 cleared the sky, you need something like a flying “bombs and missiles truck” that can flatten the surface of the Earth in a conventional and thermonuclear war by simply pushing a […]