The Finnish Air Force's F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets will participate in training missions with the United States Air Force’s KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling aircraft from February 10 to 13, 2025.

Finland’s evolving air power strategy fuses modern technology with historic expertise, forging a fighter fleet ready for any ...

The F/A-18 Hornet was developed as an all-weather supersonic multirole fighter in the 1970s for the U.S. Navy before being offered for export sales. The aircraft has seen service around the ...

Finnish Special Operations forces from the Utti Jaeger Regiment and U.S. Air Force 352nd Special Operations Wing participated ...

Allied forces provide surveillance of Iceland's skies, as the Nordic country is the only Nato member not to have a standing ...

What is “sisu?” Check out the concept Finland’s Army describes as a form of hardiness earned only by fighting in harsh conditions.

Unlike the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission, Icelandic Air Policing is not a continuous mission, meaning that the Finnish F/A-18C Hornets will not directly assume the tasking from a previous force.

There is no indication that the Arctic conditions had anything to do with the recent F-35 crash in Alaska—but Russia has said so anyway.

Four F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets and some 50 personnel from the Finnish Air Force are currently deployed to Iceland to support NATO's Air Policing ...

(Finnish Air Force) Finland has taken on NATO's air defence of Iceland for the first time, having previously flown alliance training sorties from the North Atlantic island. The Finnish Air Force ...