Combat Aircraft Journal

MOROCCO TO UPGRADE F-16 FLEET

22nd May 2025

An RMAF F-16C prepares to rejoin the formation after receiving...

BELGIAN SEA KING RETIRES

22nd May 2025

THE BELGIAN AIR Component and 40 Squadron retired the last of...

‘PHINAL PHLING’ FOR 302 HIKOTAI

22nd May 2025

THE JAPAN AIR Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF’s) 302 Hikotai...

GREECE SEES F-35 AS ‘VIPER’ REPLACEMENT

22nd May 2025

An HAF F-16C Block 52+ over the Mediterranean. The HAF still...

JOINT STRIKE MISSILE TO ARM JAPANESE F-35S

22nd May 2025

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace JAPAN HAS BECOME the latest...

VMFA-314 HORNET CANOPY LOSS

22nd May 2025

Dan Stewart F/A_18A++ BuNo 162442 ‘VW-01’ is pictured...

RUSSIAN ‘TACAMO BEAR’ IN ACTION

22nd May 2025

THIS RARELY SEEN Tu-142MR ‘Bear-J’ strategic communications...

Combat Aircraft Journal June 2025

First Maryland Warthog departs

21st May 2025

The initial A-10C to be retired by the Maryland Air National Guard’s 175th Wing departed Warfield Air National Guard Base at Martin State Airport near Baltimore, on March 26, 2025.

Combat Aircraft Journal June 2025

Second Ukraine Air Force F-16 shot down

7th May 2025

The Ukraine Air Force (UkrAF) has confirmed that one of its US-built F-16 fighters has been shot down during a combat mission in the east of the wartorn country, resulting in the death of its pilot.

Boeing F-15 Family

Final USAF F-15C/D Eagle flight at Kadena

7th May 2025

The 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, now expects to receive the first of 36 F-15EX fighters sometime between March and June 2026.

Airbus Helicopters

Ecuadorian Army receives initial H225Ms

6th May 2025

The first two of five Airbus Helicopters H225Ms have been delivered to the Ecuadorian Army

Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey

USMC’s Project Eagle

26th March 2025

The US Marine Corps recently completed an annual review of its aviation forces and, on February 3, 2025, the deputy commandant for aviation released the 2025 Marine Aviation Plan.

Aero Vodochody

First L-39NG Skyfox jet trainers delivered to Czech Air Force

19th March 2025

The Czech Air Force has taken delivery of its first two Aero Vodochody L-39NG Skyfox training aircraft.

Combat Aircraft Journal April 2025

189th Airlift Wing conduct first C-130J mission

11th March 2025

The Arkansas Air National Guard’s 189th Airlift Wing conducted its first C-130J training flight at Little Rock Air Force Base on February 7, writes Tom Kaminski.