America’s Secret Radar-Killer Heads to War

America’s Secret Radar-Killer Heads to War

Share this story On the morning of March 31, two aircraft that barely anyone outside the electronic warfare community has heard of touched down at RAF Mildenhall in England. They had left Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona the day before, refuelled at McGuire in...
Italy Turns Away U.S. Bombers Mid-Flight

Italy Turns Away U.S. Bombers Mid-Flight

Share this story Related: Spain Bans American Warplanes from Its Skies Somewhere over the Atlantic, a group of U.S. bombers received a message no American military pilot expects to hear from a NATO ally: permission to land denied. Italy had blocked them from touching...
Rheinmetall Signs Up for Ghost Bat

Rheinmetall Signs Up for Ghost Bat

Share this story Related: Germany’s Loyal Wingman Race Heats Up Four days ago, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius stood on a tarmac in Australia and said the words Boeing had been waiting years to hear: the MQ-28 Ghost Bat was “under...
Two-Kilo Missile Downs a Kamikaze Drone

Two-Kilo Missile Downs a Kamikaze Drone

Share this story Somewhere in northern Germany on March 30, a small drone the size of a dinner table locked onto a kamikaze UAV streaking toward its target. Without any human input, it classified the threat, selected a weapon, and fired. The missile — weighing less...
Spain Bans American Warplanes from Its Skies

Spain Bans American Warplanes from Its Skies

Share this story Fifteen U.S. military aircraft lifted off from southern Spain on Sunday and scattered across Europe. Nine KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling planes flew north to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Two flights headed for southern France. Four more simply...
Five Companies Fight for Navy’s Next Trainer

Five Companies Fight for Navy’s Next Trainer

Share this story The T-45 Goshawk has been teaching Navy and Marine Corps pilots how to fly jets since 1991. Now, after more than three decades of carrier touch-and-goes, hard landings, and thousands of freshly winged aviators, the little British-designed trainer is...
Factory Rooftops Fight Back: Ukraine’s Private Air Defence

Factory Rooftops Fight Back: Ukraine’s Private Air Defence

Share this story In Kharkiv, a factory that makes industrial equipment now also shoots down Russian drones. On March 30, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced that a company called Carmine Sky had successfully downed Shahed and Zala drones using Sky Sentinel —...
Mining Iran’s Missile Cities from the Air

Mining Iran’s Missile Cities from the Air

Share this story A nighttime photograph released by the Israeli Air Force on March 29 shows a pair of F-16I Sufas taxiing for another strike mission against Iran. The jets are loaded heavy. But the weapons hanging under their wings aren’t the precision-guided...