The first of the RAF’s new fleet of supersonic £100m fighter jets has touched down in the UK, that reported by news.sky.com. The F-35B Lightning II – the world’s most advanced stealth combat aircraft – arrived on British soil for the first time overnight at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. The fighter was piloted by Squadron […]

Marine Corps aviation, struggling to meet its operational and training missions with a shrinking fleet of aged F/A-18 Hornets, is pushing a program to recover and update 30 out-of-service F/A-18Cs in an effort to remain combat ready until the new F-35B is fielded in numbers. That reported by usni.org. The Marines have contracted with Boeing to […]

Servicemen of 80th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade  of the Ukrainian Ground Forces underwent HMMWV driver’s courses held at the U.S. military base in Germany. The U.S. instructors conducted theoretical and practical training. Servicemen worked out various crew’s actions and at the end of the courses got certificates. The 80th Airmobile Brigade  is an airmobile formation of […]

Over 1,800 troops from 14 NATO and “partner nations” have arrived in western Ukraine for the huge Rapid Trident exercise. Coming amid a fragile truce in the country’s east, they’re set to evaluate the readiness of US-trained Ukrainian troops. This year more than 1,800 servicemen from 13 countries (Ukraine, the USA, Canada, the UK, Bulgaria, Lithuania, […]

West Virginia’s Camp Dawson was home to five Peruvian officers June 15 to 19, continuing a 20-year partnership between Peru’s Army and the West Virginia Army National Guard. The WVARNG’s 151st Military Police Battalion hosted the visit, the first time that branch has been involved in the West Virginia-Peru State Partnership Program. Previously it has […]

Just two weeks after the Turkish Government announced the start of the Turkish Utility Helicopter Program (TUHP) to build a fleet of multi-role T70 utility helicopters based on the S-70i™ BLACK HAWK aircraft, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, has accepted the program’s prototype aircraft produced by its Polish subsidiary PZL Mielec. “On-time delivery and the […]

Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) announced the CH-53K King Stallion successfully completed an external lift of a 27,000 pound payload at Sikorsky’s Development Flight Test Center in West Palm Beach, Fla.  The aircraft executed an “out of ground effect” (OGE) external load test at 100 feet above the ground while performing hover maneuvers to demonstrate its excellent […]

BAE Systems, Land & Armaments, York, Pennsylvania, is being awarded an $10,862,557 firm-fixed-price contract to provide the necessary material and technical engineering to build, integrate, test, and deliver one Assault Amphibious Vehicle, Command Vehicle 7A1 (AAVC7A1); and one Assault Amphibious Vehicle, Recovery Vehicle 7A1 (AAVR7A1). This effort includes all weapons, support and test equipment, spares, […]

South Korea and the United States on Wednesday conducted a joint helicopter attack exercise in an effort to test their combat readiness to counter North Korean provocations, the military said Wednesday. The joint drill mobilized the allies’ military assets including the South Korean Army’s Cobra (AH-1S) helicopters and Apache helicopters used by the U.S. Army’s […]

The U.S. Air Force’s 821st Contingency Response Group demonstrated its ability to quickly build combat and sustainment power by conducting C-130 supply delivery operations June 16, 2016, at the Short Take-Off and Landing (STOL) airstrip in support of Swift Response 16, here. In a show of speed and adaptability, the Air Force performed eight landings […]