The F-35B may not have made it to RIAT and Farnborough, but the Textron Airland Scorpion was there. Textron Airland’s Scorpion ISR/light attack jet made the transatlantic trip to exhibit in the two shows. The aircraft offers procurement at less…

Latest Iraqi AF news The first of 36 F-16IQ Block 52 aircraft on order for Iraq completed its maiden flight at Lockheed Martin’s Forth Worth facility in Texas on May 2. The initial jet is two-seat F-16D aircraft RB-01 and…

US budget request for 2015 makes stark reading As had been widely expected, the latest US Air Force budget requests have recommended the complete retirement of the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack and U-2S reconnaissance aircraft. Senior officials claim that retiring…

Exercise is back with a vengeance at Nellis AFB In Combat Aircraft’s April issue we report from Nellis AFB, as US military training gets back into full swing.

BAE Systems reveals flight test details BAE Systems and the UK Ministry of Defence have spoken publicly for the first time about the hitherto classified flight trials of the Taranis remotely-piloted air system (RPAS). The demonstrator, now wearing RAF roundel…

Cruise missile trials begin in Germany On January 15, Airbus Defence and Space started flight tests on Taurus stand-off precision missiles on the Instrumented Production Aircraft 7 (IPA7), operated by Eurofighter Project Pilot Chris Worning. The first flight took place…

‘Spirit of Washington’ flies again after damage USAF B-2A the “Spirit of Washington” (serial 88-0332) participated in its first training mission at Whiteman Air Force Base, Dec. 16, 2013, after an engine fire in 2010 badly damaged the aircraft. After…

Six Gripens from customer operators fly together Six Saab JAS 39 Gripens from all the customer nations flew together for the first, and probably only, time during the Aerospace Forum event that took place in Linköping, Sweden last week. Gripen…

Six Gripens from customer operators fly together Six Saab JAS 39 Gripens from all the customer nations flew together for the first, and probably only, time during the Aerospace Forum event that took place in Linköping, Sweden last week. Gripen…

u-turn over the decision to switch to the F-35C carrier variant As had been widely rumoured for several months, the UK MoD has reversed the decision to switch from the STOVL F-35B to the F-35C carrier variant of the Joint…