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Nine F-16Cs assigned to the 148th Fighter Wing’s 179th Fighter Squadron have swapped their old AN/APG-68 radar with the new AN/APG-83 AESA radar.
Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy Wilson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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The Japanese Defense Ministry has included the cost of acquiring 180,000 square meters of land necessary for deploying an air defense missile unit to the Yonaguni base of the Ground Self-Defense Force in the budget plan for fiscal 2023.
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The F-35 Joint Program Office has released a statement to Defense News confirming that it had issued guidance to ground a limited number of newer F-35s following a crash involving an F-35B on Dec. 15 in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Guardsmen from Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing toured Lockheed Martin’s Forth Worth facility recently to see the first F-35A scheduled to be delivered to the unit next year.
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On Dec. 27, 1992, four U.S. Air Force F-16s, led by Lt. Col. Gary North, encountered an Iraqi MiG 25 that crossed into the no-fly zone in southern Iraq. The F-16s trapped the Iraqi aircraft in the no-fly zone, blocking it from escaping to the north. F-16D #90-0778, flow by North, fired an AIM-120A at the Soviet-built fighter and shot it down. The encounter was also the first air combat kill for a U.S. F-16.
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