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Japan’s F-15 Super Interceptor Program Slips to 2029; Tokyo Leans on F-35s, GCAP to Check China

Amid simmering tensions with China, Japan plans to upgrade its F-15J fighter fleet to the "Super Interceptor" variant, while also procuring F-35 Lightning IIs...

“Indian Pilot Crashes UAE Jet Full of Israelis” — The Headline That Would Have Run, Had Machchhar Not Fought Back: OPED

On 30 September, a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv with 174 people on board, the majority of them Israeli, encountered a dangerous...

Trump Greeted Xi With Jets & Bombers. Then China Hit the U.S. at the UN: What’s Cooking? OPED

OPED by Wg Cdr J P Joshi, IAF (Retd) The Air China Boeing 747 carrying President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan touched down at...

Indonesia Commissions 1st Aircraft Carrier as Former Italian Garibaldi Becomes KRI Sriwijaya-100

Indonesia commissioned its first aircraft carrier on Thursday, inducting the former Italian Navy vessel Giuseppe Garibaldi as KRI Sriwijaya-100. Indonesian Armed Forces Commander General Agus...

KF-21 Fighter Jet Officially Enters South Korean Air Force Service. Seoul Aims for 100+ Aircraft by the 2030s

KF-21 'Boramae', South Korea's indigenous combat jet, conducted its maiden flight as part of an official ceremony marking its delivery to the Air Force. The...