Lockheed Martin F-16

Norway will become the third country to agree to send F-16s to bolster the Ukrainian air force.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the proposed sale, starting a mandatory review period for lawmakers.

A top USAF officer says aircraft will arrive in Ukraine next year but warns they will not be a silver bullet in fighting Russia.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has dampened expectations over a potential transfer of Gripen fighters to Ukraine.

The two countries declare such a transfer only would take place once the infrastructure at Ukrainian airfields is made suitable for the aircraft’s operation.

Danish F-35s will land in Denmark for the first time on Oct. 1.

Poland has begun flight testing its first Korea Aerospace Industries FA-50 fighter in-country.

The flight on Jan. 25 at the Eglin Test and Training Complex off the Florida coast builds on four years of experiments by the Air Force Research Laboratory.

RTX business Collins Aerospace has announced that integration of its MS-110 sensor onto the F-16 aircraft has been completed.

The ROCAF wants to extend the service lives of nine Mirage 2000-5DI by another 20 years for “strategic and risk-hedging reasons.”

Turkey has launched the production phase of an upgrade program for the country’s long-serving F-16s.

Russia’s harassment of U.S. aircraft continues over Syria, this time with an Su-35 fighter damaging an MQ-9 Reaper UAV, forcing it to land.

The U.S. is likely to join the coalition of NATO nations establishing training for Ukrainian pilots to fly the F-16 combat aircraft.

NATO’s largest exercise took over European skies ahead of a new funding pledge at the leaders’ summit.

The Pentagon is sending F-35s to the Middle East to help patrol waterways in the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman.

Ukrainian pilots will begin training to fly F-16 combat aircraft this summer in a school to be set up in Romania.

The Slovakia defense ministry wants to buy AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters from the U.S. and has made a formal request to do so.

Global defense demand remains robust with $252 billion worth of allied contract awards expected over the next 24 months, according to investment bank Jefferies.

The Pentagon is in the middle of reviewing its assumptions of how many munitions it would need in a war and how industry can meet its requirements.

The Republic of Singapore Air Force confirms that it has integrated the Rafael Python-5 short-range air-to-air missiles as part of its F-16 mid-life upgrade.

More U.S. Air Force installations are getting new aircraft as Congress appears poised to allow the service to continue retiring the aging A-10 fleet.

The Senate Armed Services Committee has passed its version of the fiscal 2024 defense policy bill.

The HASC was poised to consider more than 800 amendments during debate on the legislation June 21

Lockheed Martin will increase its production pace over the next two to three years to an eventual pace of four F-16s per month.

The U.S. House Appropriations defense subcommittee is providing $826.5 billion for defense and intelligence in fiscal 2024.