Two EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) arrived at Avalon, near Melbourne, today, to make the type’s public debut in Australia. The two aircraft arrived to take part in the Australian International Airshow that…

The defence ministries of the United Kingdom and France have unveiled plans for a mid-life refurbishment of Storm Shadow and SCALP EG conventional cruise missiles. The missile – which first saw combat with the Royal Air Force in Operation Telic…

US Air Force WC-135C 62-3582 Constant Phoenix was photographed heading out from RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk at 11.50hrs today. The secretive aircraft is equipped with ‘sniffing’ equipment to detect and identify debris from nuclear weapons detonations. The WC-135 arrived at 23.00hrs…

Discovery Air Defence and Inzpire have announced they are to join forces to bid for the UK Ministry of Defence’s Air Support to Defence Operational Training (ASDOT) requirement. According to a statement from DA Defence, the two companies “will combine…

The biennial International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) is taking place in Abu Dhabi from February 19-23. AirForces Monthly’s correspondent is reporting from the event. Among the more interesting aircraft present in the static display at IDEX is this Joint…

The March 2017 issue of AirForces Monthly is now on sale and includes a comprehensive force report on the Bulgarian Air Force, including the latest on the country’s protracted efforts to field a new fighter. Alexander Mladenov and Krassimir Grozev…

The Pakistan Air Force officially stood up its fifth JF-17 squadron today, AirForces Monthly’s correspondent Alan Warnes reports. No 14 Air Superiority Squadron, known as ‘The Tail Choppers’, is based at PAF Base Minhas and is the second to re-equip…

The first upgraded Mi-35M2 attack helicopters have been delivered to the Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana (FANB, Venezuelan Army), AirForces Monthly correspondent Juan Carlos Cicalesi reports. The FANB received three Mi-35M2 helicopters from a total of ten that are being upgraded…

On February 11 a total of 49 US Army helicopters arrived in Europe for a nine-month deployment in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve. These photographs, supplied exclusively to AirForces Monthly by Oliver Jonischkeit, show the unloading of the ship Endurance…

Images posted recently on social media revealed a Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 strike aircraft at Erbil Air Base in Iraq. The photos initially appeared with a description stating that the Tornado was at Qayarrah AB south of Mosul, a…