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
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...
Korea vs. Italy: Southeast Asia’s Trainer War
Share this story Two T-50i Golden Eagles arrived at Iswahjudi Air Base in East Java in early March, flown in pieces inside a Boeing 747 freighter and reassembled on the ground. Fuselage, wings, vertical tail, engine — each component traveled separately across more...
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
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
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...
34 Greatest Flying Aces in History: Our New Daily Series Starts Tomorrow
Share this story What does it take to become a flying ace — the most feared, most celebrated kind of warrior the modern age has ever produced? Starting tomorrow, April 1st, MiGFlug is publishing a new daily series: 34 profiles of the greatest fighter aces in history,...
Saudi Arabia Gets the F-35: A Middle East Power Shift
Share this story At the Future Investment Priority Summit in Miami on March 28, Donald Trump made it official: “For the very first time, we agreed to sell Saudi Arabia perhaps the most capable fighter jet ever built, the F-35.” With that sentence, the...
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 —...
China’s Secret Sub-Hunter Caught Over the East China Sea
Share this story For years it existed only in grainy satellite photos and rumors on Chinese military forums. Then, in September 2025, China rolled it out at a Victory Day parade in Beijing. Now, for the first time, Japan has intercepted one in the wild — and the...
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