The Aviationist

The U.S. Army M1 Support Services to train new pilots as part of the Flight School Next program, with the Robinson R66 helicopter replacing the UH-72 Lakota.

The U.S. Army announced on Aug. 13, 2026, the select...

An Italian F-2000 Typhoon assigned to the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission shot down an unidentified drone which entered Latvia’s airspace.

An F-2000A Typhoon (as the single seater Typhoons are designated in Italy in accordance with the MOD’s Mission Design Series) of the Italian Air Force has shot down an unidentified which entered Latvia’s airspace in the morning of Aug. 14...

A U.S. Army AH-64E Apache crashed in Salado, Texas, leaving no survivors and sparking a 100 acres grass fire.

A U.S. Army AH-64E attack helicopter crashed at about 1:30 pm Central Standard Time on Aug. 12, 2026, in Salado, Texas. Both crew members...

The John F. Kennedy, the second Gerald R. Ford class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, left Newport News on Aug. 12 to commence acceptance trials before its handover to the U.S. Navy.

Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) John F. Kennedy, soon to be the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) will now have its systems and equipment evaluated in these final manufacture...

Since 2020, two Mi-24D Hind helicopter gunships have provided invaluable threat replication to the U.S. Marine Corps, Army and Air Force.

The participation of a Russian-made Mi-24D Hind attack helicopter in the U.S. Marine Corps Adversary Force Exercise (AFX) 4-26 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twenty Nine Palms, California, has again shone the spotlight on <...