We mark some of the most notable national fleet retirements recorded since we published our last World Air Forces directory.
Once combined, our selection of deleted entries – which cover eight aircraft types, drawn from all six of our directory role categories – total some 257 airframes.
The US Mitchell Institute contends that the US Air Force (USAF) needs a new generation of precision-guided munitions (PGMs) to effectively deter and fight major powers such as China and Russia.
Australia has stood up a new Army Aviation Command, to better optimise the army’s usage of rotorcraft across a range of operations.
A US Marine Corps F-35B stealth fighter has dropped a Raytheon StormBreaker precision glide bomb for the first time.
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