Joined by members of the Joint Expeditionary Force, Royal Navy ships conducted security operations in the Baltic Sea and delivered critical materiel to a British-led Battlegroup in Estonia. Througho
The JAS 39 Gripen is a Swedish delta-wing canard multirole fighter produced by Saab. It is powered by a single Volvo RM12 turbofan engine supplying 18,100 lbf. (80.5 kN) of afterburning thrust. The RM12 is a license-produced variant of the General Electric F404-GE-400. The newer JAS 39NG series aircraft carry the higher-power GE F414G, which provides upwards of 22,000 lbf. (97.9 kN) of afterburning thrust.
File photo of a U.S. Air Force B-1B. In the box, the Barents Sea.
The U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers have launched the first deterrence patrol from Orland Air Station to the eastern Barents Sea, where they integrated with RNoAF F-35A
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On Feb. 26, 2021, the U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancers from the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, deployed to Norway for a BTF (Bomber Task Force) have launched their first mission.
According to the U.S. Air Force, two B-1s participated in a local sortie where they conducted tactical integration with a Norwegian F-35A and Norwegian naval assets in the
February 23, 2021
South Korea has insisted that Indonesia is still committed to the KF-X fighter jet program, jointly initiated by the two nations, amid reports of Jakarta looking to procure French-made Dassault Rafales and Boeing’s latest F-15EX fighter jets.
The KF-X program envisages the production of an advanced multi-role fighter jet that would replace South Korea’s aging F-4D/E Phantom II and F-5E/F Tiger II fighters.
The KF-X program, which is also known as ‘Boramae’ (Korean for ‘Hawk’), is scheduled to be completed by the end of the current decade. Around the same time, the sixth-generation fighter jets will enter the market.