9/12/2025 France to deploy fighter jets to Poland after Russian drone incursions  France will send three Rafale fighter jets to help defend Polish airspace following what Warsaw described as an unprecedented Russian drone attack that violated NATO territory 19 times, President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday. |
9/12/2025 Second B-21 Flies for the First Time  A second B-21 bomber has flown from Palmdale to Edwards Air Force Base in California, ramping up the Air Force’s test effort for its new fleet. The flight occurred Sept. 11, the Air Force confirmed. Aviation enthusiasts snapped photos of the B-21 taking off and flying from outside the fence line at Plant 42, where the aircraft is manufactured. Photographer Jarod Hamilton shared a video on social media showing the Raider soaring across a cloudless sky, accompanied by an F-16. |
9/12/2025 How Will the Air Force’s “Collaborative Combat Aircraft” Drones Work?  The US Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program—slated as drone “wingmen” to the Boeing F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program—represents a leap forward in unmanned aerial operations. Whereas today’s drones rely upon remotely piloted systems, complete with human operators and satellite links, the CCA will be truly autonomous—making self-contained combat decisions in real-time, executing missions with minimal human input. |
9/12/2025 Apex Aviation confirms China military jet buzzed medevac plane in June  Taiwan's Apex Aviation on Thursday confirmed reports that a Chinese military aircraft had flown close to one of its medevac planes near Kinmen in June. Confirming the first news report of the incident, which was published by the local RW News on Tuesday, Apex told CNA on Thursday that the issue occurred on the morning of June 26, when one of its medevac aircraft was flying from Taipei Songshan Airport to its base in the offshore Kinmen County, carrying no patients. |
9/12/2025 Su-27 Fighter Jet Pilot Killed In Action Over Zaporizhzhia  Ukraine’s 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade announced on Thursday that the pilot of a Su-27 (NATO: Flanker) fighter aircraft, Major Oleksandr Borovyk, has been killed in action during combat operations near Zaporizhzhia. According to the 39th’s statement on Facebook, Borovyk was performing a combat mission in a Su-27 aircraft on the Zaporizhzhia front when his fighter jet went down at about 13:30 on Thursday afternoon – for reasons that are still being clarified. |
9/12/2025 Poland’s Su-22 Fitter Swing-Wing Strike Jets Pass Into History  The last of the venerable Sukhoi Su-22 Fitter swing-wing strike aircraft in Europe have been officially withdrawn from service. At one time, the Su-22 was a backbone of Warsaw Pact offensive airpower on the continent, with the final examples having been operated by the Polish Air Force, which had flown these impressive jets since the first example was delivered more than 40 years ago. |
9/11/2025 After Unprecedented Night Of Downing Drones Over Poland, NATO Reports No Posture Changes (Updated)  A spokesperson for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) says it has no force posture changes to announce after an unprecedented flurry of Russian drones violated Polish airspace overnight. Authorities in Poland say they have assessed that the incursions were not accidental. Polish and Dutch fighters shot down several of the intruding uncrewed aircraft. The alliance has described this as a first-of-its-kind event. |
9/11/2025 Marine Corps Hornets arrive to relieve first F-35B squadron deployed to Japan  A squadron of Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornets began arriving at an air station southeast of Hiroshima this week to replace the service’s first squadron of F-35B Lightning II fighters deployed to Japan. The first Hornets with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232 landed Monday at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni for a six-month stint, according to a news release from the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing that day. |
9/11/2025 P-8 Poseidon Officially Selected By Singapore As Its Next Maritime Patrol Aircraft  Singapore has confirmed its selection of the Boeing P-8A Poseidon as its next maritime patrol aircraft (MPA). The new aircraft will replace the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s (RSAF) fleet of aging Fokker 50 turboprops for a significant capability boost and will continue the modernization of one of the region’s best-equipped air arms. |
9/11/2025 Forget China Or Russia: America Is The Stealth Fighter King  It has become a common practice among fighter aircraft designers and producers outside the United States to present new designs and claim them to be stealthy. To some degree, according to US experts in this esoteric field of aerospace technology, they can describe what they have developed as “stealthy,” but most do not meet US standards in this regard. |