Seen on static display at the ILA Berlin Airshow earlier in June 2026, a Luftwaffe Tornado IDS that has since returned to Büchel Air Base following an extensive refurbishment at the site in ...

An artist's impression of the F-35 in Luftwaffe markings, shown at ILA Berlin Air Show 2022. (Lockheed Martin via Janes/Gareth Jennings) The Luftwaffe is progressing work to upgrade Büchel Air Base ...

Even as Germany is intent on buying more F-35s, it has not abandoned its plan to purchase extra Eurofighter Typhoons—or its commitment to the FCAS sixth-gen fighter program. Just days after it was ...

Germany has already contracted 35 F-35As, and the additional aircraft would take its planned fleet to 50 airframes. Nearly seven months after German media reported the country’s Minister of Defense ...

Blockaders cover the Front Gate at the Luftwaffe’s Buchel Air Base in Germany, which deploys and trains to use up to 20 U.S. B61 hydrogen bombs on Germany’s Tornado jet fighters. On March 26, nuclear ...