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Platforms, munitions, and training for air dominance.
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Camp David Intercept: NORAD F-16 Fires Flares | MiGFlug
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (888+ words) by Joseph Duncan | Sep 20, 2026 | Military Aviation, News | 0 comments At 7:50 on a Saturday morning, somebody in a small aeroplane over the Catoctin Mountains looked out of the window and found an F-16 Fighting Falcon sitting off the wing, throwing burning decoy flares…...
F-35 Readiness Surged in Epic Fury, But the Trend Is Down
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (579+ words) by Giuseppe Duncan | Sep 16, 2026 | Aviazione militare, Notizia | 0 comments Air Combat Command’s director of operations stood up at the Air, Space and Cyber conference this week and said the F-35 “absolutely proved itself” in combat over Iran. He is right. He…...
"Super Typhoon" Gets the Green Light | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
2+ week, 3+ day ago (747+ words) by Team MiGFlug | 4 aprile 2026 | Aviazione militare, Notizia | 0 comments This isn't a software patch or a sensor upgrade. This is metal. New surfaces bolted onto the airframe that change how the aircraft moves through the sky. In an era where upgrades…...
Ukrainian Pilots Training in Canada Fly L-39s First
1+ week, 1+ day ago (588+ words) by Fortuné Leroy | Sep 13, 2026 | Aviation militaire, Nouvelles | 0 comments There is a pleasing symmetry in the pictures the Ukrainian presidential office released on Saturday. Twenty-one Ukrainian military pilots are in Canada learning to fly Western fighters. The aircraft they are learning…...
Xian H-6: The Chinese Bomber That Refuses to Die
2+ week, 6+ day ago (315+ words) di Connor Kerr | Sep 1, 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Most warplanes of the 1950s are museum pieces or scrap. The Xian H-6 is neither. Nearly seventy years after its Soviet ancestor first flew, China is still building, flying, and continually re-arming…...
Vietnam Weighs the Rafale Against the Su-57
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (805+ words) di Fortuna Leroy | 27 giugno 2026 | Aviazione militare, Notizia | 0 commenti For sixty years, the answer to the question “what does Vietnam fly?” has been simple: whatever Moscow sold it. MiGs, then Sukhois — a proud, entirely Russian air force. In 2026, for the first…...
How fast would an S-400 missile need to be to intercept an ICBM?
3+ week, 2+ day ago (308+ words) To intercept an ICBM, an S-400 missile would need to exceed Mach 20 (24,000 km/h) to catch the hypersonic re-entry vehicle. The current 40N6E missile peaks at Mach 14, forcing Russia to build the S-500 Prometheus for true intercontinental defence. An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) re-enters…...
Bahrain's F-16 Vipers Draw First Blood
3+ week, 5+ day ago (424+ words) di Team MiGFlug | 10 aprile 2026 | Aviazione militare, Notizia | 0 commenti Sources: Aviation Week, The War Zone, Breaking Defense, Al Jazeera The F-16 Block 70 is the most advanced production version of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, a jet that first flew in 1974. Its centerpiece is the…...
Guard and Reserve Fighter Jets Are Dangerously Old
3+ week, 6+ day ago (710+ words) por Equipo MiGFlug | 3 de abril de 2026 | Noticias | 0 comentarios The generals are talking publicly now. That's how you know the problem has gotten serious. Guard and Reserve leaders have stepped in front of microphones to warn that their fighter fleets are…...
Malaysia and Kuwait's F/A-18 Hornets: Deal Dead
3+ week, 6+ day ago (646+ words) von Connor Kerr | 1. Juni 2026 | Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht | 0 Kommentare The logic is simple: why spend $80 million per jet on new F-35s when proven, combat-ready Hornets are available at a fraction of the cost? Kuwait's aircraft were well-maintained, operated in a relatively…...