Airmen from the U.S. Air Force’s 480th Fighter Squadron participated in exercise Turbo Weasel at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, from 18–26 March and 8–17 April 2025.
A Bomber Task Force deployment of U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer aircraft arrived at Misawa Air Base, Japan, on 15 April 2025.
Ramstein Flag 2025, NATO’s premier multi-domain tactical exercise, concluded on 11 April, reinforcing the alliance’s readiness and warfighting capabilities.
A United States Air Force F-35A, once deemed irreparable, has been restored to full operational status following an unprecedented engineering project.
Thales Defense & Security, Inc. (TDSI), a subsidiary of French defence company Thales, has secured a contract from the NSPA to supply Scorpion HMD retrofit kits for the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 fighter jets.
Lockheed Martin has delivered the first TPY-4 radar system to the U.S. Air Force, marking a key milestone in the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR) programme.
The United States Air Force and Royal Netherlands Air Force enhanced their fifth-generation interoperability during F-35 Lightning II operations at NATO’s Ramstein Flag 2025 exercise on 4 April.
At RAF Lakenheath, a specialist team from the 48th Equipment Maintenance Squadron is carrying out precision work critical to the mission-readiness of the U.S. Air Force’s only fifth-generation fighter squadrons in Europe and Africa.
The U.S. Air Force has marked a milestone in its VENOM (Viper Experimentation and Next-gen Operations Model) programme, as the final F-16 Fighting Falcon scheduled for autonomous modification arrived on 1 April.
For the first time, U.S. Marine Corps F-35 pilots and U.S. Air Force F-22 pilots trained together as a joint combat force in the Navy’s Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River.
With this collaboration, users of Microsoft Flight Simulator can expect an unprecedented level of audio realism when flying the F-16C.
The 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base flew its final F-16 Fighting Falcon sortie on 24 March, officially concluding the U.S. Air Force’s use of the aircraft at the Arizona base.
