Photos released by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), showing daytime flight operations by F/A-18E/F “Super Hornets” and EA-18G “Growlers” attached to Carrier Air Wing One (CVW-1), aboard the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) in the Red Sea, as strikes continue against the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist group in Yemen.

In an event earlier this week at Pyongyang International Airport, attended by Supreme-Leader Kim Jong Un, North Korea unveil its first ever airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, which appears to be based off the Russian A-50 “Mainstay” and Chinese KJ-2000 “Mainring” both of which utilize a modified version of Russia’s Ilyushin Il-76, the same as the North Korean AEW&C. The aircraft, which still has not received an officials name by North Korea, has been seen via satellite imagery being worked on at a maintenance hanger located at Pyongyang International since 2023; though it is based off an aircraft utilized by both Russia and China, it is not known how much help the two countries played in the development and construction of the North Korean AEW&C.