Not a good month for the Koreans:

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_p ... 83395.html

P.

All Don't recall seeing these reported this week: Th-73 hard landing: https://eu.pnj.com/story/news/military/2025/06/03/navy-pilots-injured-in-santa-rosa-florida-hard-landing-hospitalized/84008501007/ Korean P-3: https://www.overtdefense.com/2025/06/06/south-korean-navy-patrol-plane-crash-during-tra...

While it might be nice to see the three favourites to go down will always be those coming up (sadly)

I thought ZK560 had been seen flying in the UK recently, with 563 being one of the three at EC?

P.

The Gettysburg shot down the other VFA-11 machine, and the one that went overboard was from VFA-136.

This was a second VFA-11 FA-18F lost on this deployment.

P.

I must admit I thought SJ would be the 7th Sqn to get EXs but can see they why they wouldn't need to for training purposes but that still puts the number over the intended figure.

P.

Given the US intends to buy 104 EXs (down from 124), of which six are test/evaluation machines, it will be interesting to see if they: intend to increase the number procured; make the squadrons small than the intended 18; or conduct some reorganisation of the squadrons earmarked to receive them (now...

Try Mildenhall for that date, as was noted there according to MAR.

Hope this helps.

P.

As per LH01's comment above, 82-1068 was reported at Nellis this year:

viewtopic.php?f=165&t=251060&p=1650861& ... g#p1650861

In addition, the sighting was queried on Scramble, to which the response was one of confirmation.

P.

Perversely the adverse weather conditions may have helped as the crash location is close to where the exit/entrance to where various yacht clubs moor up (including one my Mother-in-Law is a member). Better weather may have seen more boats in that very area. Also in my experience I have rarely seen f...

All

I don't think this has been reported here, yet:

https://news.usni.org/2025/02/12/breaki ... -recovered

Looks like the locals were lucky, which along with the crew getting out is good news.

P.

Superpole: Yes, correct. I take it that is goes to Oz for their Summer (possible fire-fighting) season? If so, the irony!

P.

I thought there was to be only one AFRC F-35 unit on Luke, namely the 52nd FS.

Interesting to note:

https://www.gov.uk/product-safety-alert ... -2411-0016

According to ADSB: ASY406 (A39-004) landed just after 19:00 (AZ local - GMT-7) yesterday.

Hope this helps.

P.

Thank you.

I think the one I'm after (old EC-130Q) might currently be in Australia (hopefully just a Southern Hemisphere thing!).

P.

Were there any C-130s present?

All

For those that might be interested:

https://www.airforce.com/thunderbirds/schedule

Hope this is of use.

P.

I think you should also look at: https://www.f-16.net/g3/f-16-photos/album30/aib It is acknowledged that the front part comes from the other F-16, and I think it is fairly obvious where the join line is. At the end of the day it comes down to what one wishes to claim but for me the majority of the a...