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Bulgaria operates one of the smallest military aircraft fleets in Europe, but the modernization of key capabilities is underway to respond to the worsening security situation in Eastern Europe and in the Black Sea.

The U.S. and Sweden are dangling incentives to secure combat aircraft orders in Thailand and the Philippines.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Several aircraft from a batch delivered at the end of July were on display at an event and in online imagery marking Ukraine’s Air Force Day on Aug. 4.

The Royal Jordanian Air Force spent the latter half of the 2010s working to divest itself of aircraft programs in an effort to slow an oncoming budgetary crisis in the country. But notwithstanding constrained funding, the need for a strong regional bloc to counterbalance growing instability in the region remains strong.

The F-16 training school set up in Romania has graduated its first students but has yet to train Ukrainian pilots.

About 40% of the aircraft fleet operated by Royal Jordanian Air Force are second-hand aircraft and more than two decades old, but regardless the service has been working to overhaul its main fleets.

The financing deal would help fund a “once-in-a-generation investment” in the Filipino armed forces, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in Manila.

Watch the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) showcasing its F-16 fighter jet at the Farnborough International Airshow 2024.

“The big thing here is this is a start to getting Ukraine into Western equipment [and] Western tactics," U.S. Air Force Gen. James Hecker says.

Northrop Grumman is getting ready for flight trials of the new F-16 electronic warfare suite it is hoping to sell to users of the fighter abroad.

Lockheed Martin has announced a series of offset items for Thailand should it choose the F-16 Blk. 70/72 package.

The Taiwanese ministry of national defense (MND) says flight control software issues were the primary cause of delays.

After months of preparation, Ukraine is about to receive its first batch of F-16s to help it battle Russia.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Ukrainian pilots will fly Lockheed Martin F-16s in the country’s skies this summer as the official handover is underway.

The U.S. has reportedly offered a loan to the Royal Thai Air Force to acquire a fleet of F-16 Block 70s in a bid to trump Sweden's competing JAS-39 Gripen offer.

The Pentagon did not release a timeline for completing the transition at either base.

The first donated Lockheed Martin fighters could arrive as early as this summer.

A wave of new orders and investments in capabilities is giving Eurofighter a “golden moment.”

The White House appears set to allow American military contractors to travel and work in Ukraine to keep U.S.-provided weapons in operation.

U.S. Air Force officials warn that resource constraints and shifting requirements put the Next Generation Air Dominance program’s existence at risk.

Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. and U.S. uncrewed systems company AEVEX have signed a memorandum geared toward the manufacturing of UAS.

Readers write about the B-21 as a tanker, the F-16’s reclined seat, redesigning the F-35, B-2 sightings and airline ancillary fees.

The targeting pod failed within two months of use, Danish auditors said, and in some cases did not pass its first test.