In a recent air defense exercise, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) utilized a J-20 stealth fighter jet to simulate an attack by a U.S. F-35 stealth aircraft.
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Category: Air Force
Ukrainian fighter pilots have been secretly training in France to fly the Mirage 2000
French newspaper Le Figaro reported last week that a group of about thirty Ukrainian pilots have been undergoing secret flight training at Mont-de-Marsan and Nancy air bases since Feburary to fly the Mirage 2000 fighter.
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Jerry Gunner from Lincoln, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
C-17s and F-35As show lethality in Monster Jam Exercise
The U.S. Air Force recently held an exercise called Monster Jam, where two C-17 airlifters from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington and four F-35 fighters from Hill Air Force Base in Utah participated.
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Callie Norton
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Slovakia to donate 13 MiG-29s to Ukraine
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Canadian and U.S. military conduct first-ever joint platoon movement on arctic ice
On Mar. 15, 2023, during exercise Guerrier Nordique 23, a joint effort between the United States and Canada resulted in the first-ever platoon movement of its kind. Thirty-seven U.S. and Canadian soldiers were tactically inserted on Arctic Ocean ice east of Little Cornwallis Island in Nunavut, Canada, via an LC-130 Hercules.
U.S. and Canadian Soldiers and U.S. Airmen participated in Guerrier Nordique 23 in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada from March 6 to March 20, 2023. U.S. Soldiers and Airmen consisted mainly of National Guard units from Connecticut, New Hampshire, Utah, New York, and Vermont. U.S. Army active duty Soldiers came from the 11th Airborne Division out of Fairbanks, Alaska. Canadian Soldiers came mainly from the 35th Canadian Brigade Group. Guerrier Nordique is an annual training exercise hosted by the Canadians in different locations each year. The training usually focuses on domestic emergencies and responses. For the first time this year, the focus of the exercise focused on military tactics and lethality.