BOEING AND Kongsberg Defense Systems of Norway announced on November 7, that they had recently completed a successful check of the Joint Strike Missile (JSM) on an F/A-18F Super Hornet at the Boeing facility in St Louis, Missouri, to ensure…

Several hundred U.S. Navy Sailors will participate in Veterans Week NYC 2013 from Nov. 6 – 12 in New York City to honor the service and sacrifice of all American veterans. Sailors from local commands in Manhattan, the Bronx, Long…

Tom Heldt’s letter published in the October issue of AirForces Monthly has certainly caused many of you to reply – so many that we can’t publish them all in the magazine, so we’ve taken the opportunity of the digital age…

The Royal Canadian Air Force(RCAF) has taken delivery of its fifth CH-147F Chinook one month ahead of schedule. Boeing is scheduled to deliver two more CH-147Fs this year and another eight by June 2014 to provide Canada with its full…

Alan Kenny was at Bruntingthorpe Airfield to witness the sad retirement of an iconic all-British aircraft. Words by Dave Allport. ROYAL AIR Force/101 Squadron VC10 K3 ZA147 ‘F’, the last of the type airworthy anywhere in the world, completed its…

The U.S. Air Force has completed the first unmanned QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target flight. Two U.S. Air Force test pilots in a ground control station remotely flew the QF-16, which is a retired F-16 jet modified to be an…

Scorpion development started in January 2012. A demonstration aircraft is in the test phase with the first flight scheduled by the end of the year. Cessna and Bell Helicopter parent company Textron and partner AirLand Enterprises unveiled a prototype intelligence,…

The Indian Defence Ministry has been given the go-ahead for the purchase of six more C-130J “Super Hercules” aircraft from the US. The Defence Acquisition Council headed by Defence Minister A K Antony has approved a deal worth over Rs…