DefenceTalkThe Air Combat Command F-35A Heritage Flight team accomplished America’s first transatlantic flight in an F-35A Lightning II, with refueling support from a KC-10 Extender, when it touched down here June 30. This historic flight, which brought the team to England from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, was a first for not only the F-35A; […]https://www.defencetalk.com/first-usaf-f-35a-takes-overseas-flight-to-england-67774/

DefenceTalkSituated in sight of unstable north Africa and on the shipping route to the Middle East, Gibraltar has military and intelligence facilities that still make it a strategic asset for Britain, analysts say. Spain ceded Gibraltar to Britain in perpetuity in 1713 following a military struggle but has since the 1960s fought to have the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/gibraltar-still-strategic-asset-for-britain-analysts-48790/