On 20 March 1922, the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), was officially recommissioned. USS Langley (CV-1) was the first aircraft carrier of the US Navy. The vessel had originally been commissioned […]
Between 9 and 19 March 2026, approximately 32,500 soldiers from fourteen NATO countries took part in this year’s edition of the Norwegian-led Arctic military exercise Cold Response 2026. Since 2006, a series of NATO multidomain […]
On 11 March 2026, the NATO Allied Air Command (AIRCOM) announced that Flygvapnet (the Swedish Air Force) had completed its deployment to Keflavík Air Base in Iceland. During this assignment, the Swedish fighter jets successfully […]
On 13 March 1977, the prototype of the Sikorsky S-76 medium-size utility rotorcraft performed its first flight. The development of the S-76 helicopter began in the mid-1970s and, initially, the rotorcraft was known as the […]
As reported by Allied Air Command (AIRCOM), during the first week of March a NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft conducted its first mission in Finnish airspace. The mission of the Boeing […]
Airbus A330-243 Multi Role Tanker Transport (c/n 1830, T-054 operated by Koninklijke Luchtmacht / the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force), exercise Lion Effort 2024, Čáslav, May 2024. The Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport […]
Founded on 6 January 1926, Lufthansa – Germany’s national airline and currently one of the world’s leading carriers – is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the company decided to give […]
On 6 March 1936, Avro Anson, a new British twin-engine military aircraft, entered operational service with No. 48 Squadron of the Royal Air Force. The Anson was developed in the mid-1930s, in response to the […]
On 27 February 2026, Hypersonix Launch Systems, the Brisbane-based company pioneering hypersonic flight technologies, successfully completed the maiden flight of its hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), known as the DART AE. This achievement represents a […]
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