The German Air Force, or Luftwaffe, is participating with combat aircraft in a United Arab Emirates exercise for the first time since 2012. Tornado jets had taken off from the Nörvenich air base in ...

Ingo Gerhartz, Lieutenant General and Inspector General of the German Air Force, takes part in the press conference on the international air force maneuver "Air Defender 2023". German Air Force chief ...

The Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoons successfully conducted their first air-to-air refueling operations with a German Air Force Atlas A400M tanker aircraft. This new capability significantly enhances ...

German Tornado Fires AARGM During Low-Level Test Flight Over California Desert. On Apr. 3, 2025, aviation photographers Jarod Hamilton and Ian Recchio captured a rare moment near the China Lake Naval ...

The joint Franco-German C-130J squadron is integrating the air refueling capability, with the Germans refueling the Eurofighter and the French refueling the Mirage 2000 and Rafale aircraft. In a major ...

Germany has formally established its new Eurofighter National Test and Development Center ahead of the introduction of the first Tranche 4 model aircraft. The unit, based at Manching, Bavaria, brings ...

Germany has conducted its first firing of MBDA’s Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile from one of its Eurofighter combat aircraft. Announcing the development on 6 December, the German air ...

The German Air Force is trying to ease concerns that the Lockheed Martin F-35s it is buying could be operationally impaired by U.S. control over the fighter's technology. Worries about Washington's ...

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — Tech. Sgt. James Ely grasped for the pool wall just as the timer showed four minutes, his waterlogged uniform making 100 meters feel like a mile. Without a second to spare ...