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Boeing has completed the assembly of the first P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft for Germany. The aircraft has already been painted and received German markings at the Seattle plant. This is the first of eight P-8As that Berlin has ordered from the United States.
A Su-24MR frontline reconnaissance aircraft, which took off from the Kaliningrad region, entered Polish airspace at 14:09, penetrating 6.5 km into the eastern part of the Gulf of Gdansk. The aircraft was in the Polish sky for 1 minute and 12 seconds.
A Polish fighter pilot flew an F-35A Lightning II for the first time at the US National Guard Air Base in Ebbing, Arkansas.
The Russian company has signed agreements to purchase US and German equipment worth RUB 720 million to expand its production of radar receivers.
French Mirage 2000-5F fighter jets have demonstrated their effectiveness in the fight against Shahed kamikaze drones. During a patrol in the Yemeni region, they destroyed about ten drones.
Seven American Black Hawk helicopters, which Afghan pilots fled to Uzbekistan in 2021, have been officially transferred to the United States. This was reported by diplomatic sources.
A Mirage-2000 aircraft crashed near the city of Karela, India, during a routine training flight.
On 4 February 2025, two F-35 aircraft of the Royal Norwegian Air Force took off to intercept two Russian TU-95 Bear H bombers (NATO codification), which, accompanied by two Flanker-Ds (i.e. Su-33s), flew near NATO airspace in the Far North.
The head of Syria's transitional government, Ahmed al-Sharaa, plans to discuss with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the deployment of military air bases in the country to replace the Russian ones.
Azerbaijani experts have recovered a fragment of a Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile from the downed Embraer ERJ-190 aircraft flying from Baku to Grozny.
The Malaysian Air Force expects to significantly strengthen its fleet with the purchase of 30 F/A-18C/D fighters from Kuwait, which is gradually replacing them with the Eurofighter Typhoon.
The Royal New Zealand Air Force has retired five C-130H Hercules military transport aircraft after six decades of service.
The '23 March Movement' rebels seized a Su-25 attack aircraft, armoured vehicles and artillery, including a Ukrainian Bastion multiple rocket launcher system.
US Air Force F-16 fighters will now use laser-guided APKWS II missiles to destroy Houthi drones.
An F-35A fighter jet of the US Air Force crashed while landing at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska.
