US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that Qatar will be allowed to build an air force facility at Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho that will house F-15 fighter jets and pilots."We're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho,

The air combat sector is poised for a huge shift. A monumental deal has been reached for the world’s most sophisticated fighter jet that will enable the construction of almost 296 fifth-generation aircraft. This deal between Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) is a landmark contract.

Venezuela on Thursday said it had detected five US fighter jets flying near its Caribbean coast. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino described the incident as a “provocation” by the United States that posed a threat to national security.

NORAD scrambled U.S. fighter jets Wednesday to intercept Russian Tu-95 bombers and Su-35 jets flying near Alaska in the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). No Russian planes entered sovereign airspace.

Swiss voters want the government to walk away from a deal to buy three dozen F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin Corp. because of a disagreement over the contract and a risk that the price could increase by as much as 1.

Long delays to get parts for F/A-18 fighters and Virginia-class submarines have forced maintainers to strip from other aircraft and subs.