Aviation News
The Iowa Air National Guard’s 132nd Fighter Wing will soon transfer its F-16s out and start the transition to MQ-9. It will also be renamed as the 132nd Attack Wing.
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Training Air Wing TWO (TW-2) at NAS Kingsville marked its 700,000th training hour in the T-45 ‘Goshawk’ aircraft May 31.
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Flights at Portland International Airport were disrupted on Thursday afternoon after a F-15 from the Oregon Air National Guard blew its tires while landing and got stranded on the runway.
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Russia will have two Missile Attack Early Warning System radars operational next year, Maj. Gen. Alexander Golovko, head of Aerospace Defense Forces said Thursday.
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An F-35A has completed the first in-flight missile launch of an AIM-120 over the Point Mugu Sea test range on Jun. 5.
F-35 Program Office
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