March 20, 2026 Military Aviation News
03/20/2026
U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft are now engaged in maritime interdiction operations along the southern flank of Operation Epic Fury, targeting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fast-attack watercraft in the Strait of Hormuz, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday.
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03/20/2026
The Dutch Ministry of Defence has confirmed a new step in its participation in the U.S.-led Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, announcing its intention to sign a Letter of Acceptance (LoA) ahead of the April 8 deadline. The decision, communicated by State Secretary Derk Boswijk to the Dutch Parliament, formalizes the continuation of an initiative first outlined in October 2025 with the signing of a Letter of Intent (LoI).
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03/20/2026
Russia has once again tested Estonia’s border, with a fighter jet briefly violating the country’s airspace near Vaindloo Island in the Gulf of Finland – a smaller incident than last September’s extraordinary incursion, but one that Tallinn is clearly unwilling to let pass without protest.
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03/20/2026
Negotiations to join the British-Italian-Japanese fighter jet project, the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), are ongoing, a Polish deputy minister revealed. The GCAP project rivals the French-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System (FCAS). And while the €100 billion FCAS project is on the brink of failure, a similar project by the UK, Italy and Japan is progressing. Now, Poland is turning its back on the struggling FCAS project and is aiming to join the alternative.
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03/20/2026
A fifth-generation US F-35 stealth fighter sustained damage and was forced to perform an emergency landing at a US military facility in the Middle East. The incident occurred during a mission. Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for US Central Command, confirmed the aircraft was on a combat mission over Iranian territory when the emergency landing became necessary, according to CNN on March 19.
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03/20/2026
In partnership with France, Germany says it is working to a deadline next month aimed at resolving a long-running industrial dispute over the troubled New Generation Fighter (NGF) element of Europe’s Future Combat Air System (FCAS). The last ditch effort to save NGF from collapse centers on France’s Dassault and Germany’s Airbus aligning on a common approach for the NGF in the coming weeks — a timeframe communicated by a German official today and widely reported.
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