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Mar 07, 2022
The U.S. government is looking at how it could backfill the fighter fleet of Poland should that nation donate aircraft to Ukraine.
Mar 05, 2022
Middle Eastern nations need to increase levels of defense research and development (R&D) if they want to achieve their goals of developing more domestic capability, a think tank has warned.
Mar 04, 2022
Further requests from Airbus are delaying the signing of a contract for the demonstration phase of the Future Combat Air System, according to Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier.
Mar 03, 2022
U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is confident one of his key priorities—the development of a UAS that will fly along with an advanced fighter—is realistic in the near term based on multiple efforts in the U.S. and Australia.
Mar 03, 2022
The U.S. military on March 1 established a deconfliction line with the Russian Ministry of Defense aimed at avoiding incidents in the airspace over Eastern Europe amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Mar 03, 2022
Seven Romanian military personnel were killed during a search-and-rescue mission that was looking for the pilot of a MiG-21 fighter that had crashed.
Mar 02, 2022
European Union plans to transfer Warsaw Pact-era combat aircraft to Ukraine appear to have faltered after the Eastern European governments operating them said they would not be handing over the aircraft.
Mar 01, 2022
The head of the U.S. military’s nuclear command has not recommended any posture changes more than two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ordering his nuclear forces to a “special mode” of alert.