The 35th Fighter Wing on Friday denied reports that an Air Force fighter jet’s precautionary landing disrupted a commercial flight in northeastern Japan days earlier. One of the wing’s F-16 Fighting ...

The U.S. Air Force has deployed two of its new Boeing F-15EX Eagle IIs to Kadena Air Base, Japan, as it prepares to stand up a unit of the fighters at the base. The service plans to stand up the ...

Outside of the mainland, the US military has fighter jets permanently deployed in Japan, South Korea, and Hawaii, although ...

A U.S. Air Force tiltrotor aircraft made a precautionary landing at a Japan Air Self-Defense Force base in central Japan last week, according to the service and Japanese officials. The CV-22 Osprey, ...

Article Summary - Japan’s shift to a massive F-35 fleet hasn’t made the Mitsubishi F-2 obsolete—it’s turned it into a specialist. -Derived from the F-16 but 25 percent larger, the F-2 carries more ...

The brightly painted Mitsubishi F-15Js of Japan’s aggressor squadron simulate hostile aircraft. Credit: Chen Chuanren/AW&ST Japan has shifted its defense modernization efforts from cruise control into ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will deliver the ASM-3A supersonic, air-launched, anti-ship missile (pictured) to the JASDF for deployment on F-2 fighter aircraft. (Janes/Oishee Majumdar) Mitsubishi Heavy ...

Four B-1Bs from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, were dispatched to Japan for the Bomber Task Force mission. They arrived last week. The ongoing government shutdown hasn’t grounded the United States Air ...

F-35A Lightning II aircraft prior to a sortie during Exercise ‘Bushido Guardian 2025' at Misawa Air Base in Japan. (LACW Paris Rigney/Commonwealth of Australia) A trilateral air exercise in Japan ...

Japan—a key United States ally—sent its air force to North America and Europe to strengthen cooperation with NATO amid threats from Russia, China and North Korea. Newsweek has emailed the Russian and ...