The 419th Fighter Wing’s first F-35 pilot, Maj. Jayson Rickard, talks about his transition from the F-16 to the F-35A.
Category: Air Force
The first RAAF pilots to convert to PC-21
The first Australian pilots to undertake conversion training on the PC-21 have arrived at Pilatus airfield at Stans in Switzerland.
Photo: Pilatus Corporate Communications
Iraq wants to buy JHMCS, AIM-9Ms, AGM-65s and lots of bombs
The Defense Security Cooperative Agency has notified Congress on a potential FMS to Iraq for F-16 weapons, munitions, equipment, and logistics support.
Photo: Lockheed Martin
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Armenia keen on getting refurbished Il-76s and Su-30SMs
Armenia’s Deputy Defense Minister Alik Mirzabekyan and the Deputy Director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation, Konstantin Biryulin, chaired the Armenian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation this week and both sides discussed on Armenia’s request to buy three refurbished Il-76s and Su-30SM fighters.
By Konstantin Tyurpeko (http://russianplanes.net/id158633) [CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Israel to embark on major upgrade of the F-15I
The Israeli Air Force was given the go ahead for a major upgrade of the Boeing F-15I, Flight Global reports.
By TSGT KEVIN J. GRUENWALD, USAF [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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