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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said dozens of Israeli Air Force jets struck multiple targets across Iran, including nuclear sites. NBC News' Richard Engel reports on the scale of the preemptive strike.
During a tense exchange, Jack Reed grilled Hegseth on the opaque arrangements surrounding the acceptance of a luxury jet from the Qatari royal family.
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Defense News on MSNAir Force F-35 buy would be cut in half under Pentagon spending planThe Air Force typically buys four or five dozen F-35s each year. The plan to purchase only 24 would represent a major scaling back.
The oldest airframe still flying with the USAF is a KC-135 Stratotanker with tail number 57-1419. Built in 1957, this airframe is now approaching 70 years old and remains an active asset to the Air Force's aerial refueling capabilities.
It will cost less than $400 million to turn a luxury Qatari jet into President Trump's airborne command center, according to the U.S. Air Force.
It will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to retrofit a Qatari luxury Boeing 747 jetliner to fly as the new Air Force One, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said.
President Donald Trump grew impatient with how long it was taking to finish new planes to serve as Air Force One, so he started to look for other options.
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The Aviationist on MSNItalian Air Force Says Goodbye to MB-339A Jet Trainer After 45 YearsThe Italian Air Force celebrated the phase out of the T-339A jet trainer and the phase in of its successor, the T-345A. The Italian Air Force said goodbye to its long-standing Aermacchi MB-339A jet trainer during a ceremony at Lecce-Galatina Air Base on Jun.
Retail investors seem to have spotted an opportunity in the sudden feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and his former ally, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, scooping up shares of the electric car maker as they tumbled on the acrimonious standoff.
With much of Europe’s fighter fleets heavily dependent on the U.S., President Donald Trump’s apparent siding with NATO adversaries and calls to annex Canada and Greenland must be causing sleepless nights for some of the alliance’s European leaders.