September 20, 2024 Military Aviation News
09/20/2024
VMFA-251 is the first East Coast operational unit to receive the F-35C, whose arrival at MCAS Cherry Point marks the beginning of the 2nd MAW’s transition from the F/A-18 Hornet to the fifth generation stealth jet.
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09/20/2024
Based on various images published over the past year that caught the attention of specialists in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and analysts, it was noted that the Russian Aerospace Forces were covering their combat aircraft with tires while stationed at their airbases. This sparked a wide range of theories aimed at explaining this unusual practice. Recently, U.S. officials have stated that this is intended to confuse Ukrainian missile sensors.
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09/20/2024
The US Air Force (USAF) is closing in on selecting its first pilotless fighter jet, and now the service has revealed how it intends to use them. Pentagon leaders envision fielding hundreds or thousands of so-called Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs) to bolster a conventional fighter fleet comprised of ageing aircraft and size-limited due to the staggering cost of developing and producing piloted fighters.
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09/20/2024
U.S. Air Force aerial warfare experts are ordering additional modern active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for F-16 jet fighter aircraft under terms of an $16.7 million order announced on Tuesday. Officials of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Fighter Bomber Directorate, F-16 Division, at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, are asking the Northrop Grumman Corp. Mission Systems segment in Linthicum Heights, Md., for production radars and spare parts.
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09/20/2024
On September 12, Chinese state media released footage of — what it claims is an interception of a foreign military aircraft by Chinese fighter jets near its territorial waters. The video, reportedly from a 2022 incident, shows a Chinese J-16 fighter jet intercepting an aircraft believed to be an Australian P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane in international airspace over the South China Sea.
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