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Boeing is modifying F-15E fighter jets to serve as rocket launch platforms in the sky to send small satellites into orbit. And you thought space launches couldn't get any cooler.
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Ukrainian pilots have started flying F-16s within the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday, confirming the long-awaited arrival of the US-made fighter jets more than 29 months after Russia started its special military operation. "F-16s are in Ukraine. We did it," Zelensky said...
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force recently organized a short-ranged aerial combat exercise between two generations of the China-developed fighter jets J-16 and J-20.Dozens of J-16 and J-20 fighter jets took off from a military airport in northwest China to carry...
Why NATO Focused on Air Defense Systems vs. Fighter Jets At a meeting between US and European military officials to discuss the Ukraine dispute, Kyiv made a plea for advanced fighter jets, which has not been granted yet. Thisappealfor modern aircraft was the most recent expression of the...
DAMASCUS, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Israeli fighter jets carried out fresh airstrikes late on Friday, targeting at least six military positions in the countryside of Damascus and Sweida provinces in southern Syria, according to a war monitor. ...
TOKYO, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- A number of F-35 fighter jets arrived at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi prefecture, western Japan on Wednesday, marking the first deployment of such aircraft outside the U.S. despite safety concerns from some people in Japan. ...
Fighter jets of this kind were constructed at Novosibirsk Chkalov aircraft factory and one specimen was given to the laboratory. Fighter jets fly at incredibly high speeds. Military experts think more than 50 fighter jets would be needed to enforce the zone. "Switzerland also has 33 US-made FA...
Japan said it scrambled fighter jets on Monday after a Chinese military aircraft violated its airspace in a further escalation of regional tensions. The incident comes just weeks after the U.S. military intercepted several Russian and Chinese bombers in international airspace near the coast of ...