A US F/A-18F super hornet flies past Mount Fuji, an active volcano and the highest peak in Japan at 3,776m on January 2020. (Photo byAlex Grammar /Reuters)





An Israeli F-16 bomber lands at Nörvenich airbase in the Düren district, North Rhine-Westphalia while men with cameras stand by a cornfield and take photographs of the landing on August 17, 2020. Among other things, the jets travel to Germany for joint military exercises with the Bundeswehr. (Photo by Roberto Pfeil/dpa)





A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber, assigned to the 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, lands during exercise Lightning Focus at Royal Australian Air Force Base (RAAF) in Darwin, Australia, December 6, 2018. The U.S. Air Force flew three B-1 heavy bombers over the East Siberian Sea, north of Russia’s far east, as part of recent maneuvers that the military said Friday are meant to demonstration of American capabilities and ability to support allies, but which a Russian commander blasted as “hostile and provocative”. The flight of the three Texas-based U.S. Air Force Reserve B-1 Lancer bombers on Thursday followed a similar mission a week ago in which three temporarily Britain-based B-52 bombers were flown over Ukrainian airspace, near Russia’s western flank. (Photo by U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christopher Quail via AP Photo)





Aerial view of the only remaining RAF XB259 Blackburn Beverley C1 heavy transport plane during a preview for the auction of the contents of the Fort Paull Museum, a Napoleonic fort in Holderness, East Yorkshire, which closed earlier this year, on September 17, 2020. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)





F-35 Lightning II pilot U.S. Air Force Captain Kristin “BEO” Wolfe performs the “high-speed pass” maneuver at approximately .95 mach, which is just below the speed of sound, at the 2020 Fort Lauderdale Air Show in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 22, 2020. (Photo by U.S. Air Force/Capt. Kip Sumner/Handout via Reuters)





Sukhoi Su-35 jet fighters of the Russian Knights aerobatic team perform during International military-technical forum “Army-2020” at Kubinka airbase in Moscow Region on August 25, 2020. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Two German air force Bundeswehr Eurofighters and an Israeli Air Force jet fly in formation over the Fuerstenfeldbruck airbase in commemoration of the 1972 Olympic Games assassination attempt in Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany, Tuesday, August 18, 2020. The attempt to rescue the hostages failed at the airbase in Fuerstenfeldbruck in 1972and the hostages perished. It is the Israeli Air Force's first time conducting joint air combat exercises in Germany. (Photo by Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP Photo)





A Hercules C-130 (top) and a F-16 fighter jet of the Royal Danish Air Force fly past Kronborg Castle in Helsingor, Denmark on October 1, 2020. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of its foundation, the Royal Danish Air Force on October 1 holds an exercise with helicopters, transport aircraft and fighter jets flying over most of the country. (Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP Photo)





In this undated photo released Tuesday April 13, 2021, by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, A Tu-160 strategic bomber of the Russian air force is shown on a training mission somewhere in Russia. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday described a massive military buildup in western Russia as part of drills intended to check the armed forces' readiness amid the threats posed by NATO. (Photo by Vadim Savitsky/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)





A Boeing C-17 military transport aircraft of the Qatar Air Force performs during a military parade to mark Qatar's national day celebration, in the capital Doha on December 18, 2020. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A Greek crew of a Mirage 2000-5 taxis as a soldier with a dog guards at Andravida air base, about 279 kilometres (174 miles) southwest of Athens, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Greece vowed Tuesday to expand military cooperation with traditional NATO allies as well as Middle Eastern powers in a race to modernize its armed forces and face its militarily assertive neighbor Turkey. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)





A handout photo made available by the Ministry of National Defence shows the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team “Red Arrows” performing over Tanagra Air Base, during pre-season training known as Exercise Springhawk, Tanagra, Greece, 28 April 2021. (Photo by Ministry of Defence/EPA/EFE)





In this image taken Tuesday, June 16, 2020, and released by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, a Russian Tu-95 bomber, top, is intercepted by a U.S. F-22 Raptor fighter off the coast of Alaska. Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers have flown near Alaska on a mission demonstrating the military's long-range strike capability. The Russian Defense Ministry said that four Tu-95 bombers have flown over the Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea, the Chukchi Sea and the Northern Pacific during an 11-hour mission. The ministry said the bombers were escorted by U.S. F-22 fighters during part of their patrol. (Photo by North American Aerospace Defense Command via AP Photo)





The runway lineup up of eight B-52H bombers was photographed last week. The readiness exercise with B-52H Stratofortress bombers took place on Wednesday, October 14, at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. (Photo by 2nd Bomb Wing Public Affairs/The Sun)





F-35 Lightning II pilot U.S. Air Force Captain Kristin “BEO” Wolfe performs the “dedication pass” maneuver at the 2020 Fort Lauderdale Air Show in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. November 22, 2020. Picture taken November 22, 2020. (Photo by U.S. Air Force/Capt. Kip Sumner/Handout via Reuters)





Poland's Air Force F-16 fighter jet flies over Riga International Airport during NATO Air Policing mission in Riga, Latvia January 17, 2020. (Photo by Ints Kalnins/Reuters)