Did a Nazi Bomber Really See New York?
Share this story The story is irresistible: in the depths of the Second World War, a colossal six-engine German bomber slips across the Atlantic, flies to within sight of the Manhattan skyline, photographs Long Island, and turns for home before America ever knows it...
The Beautiful French Fighter Nobody Would Buy
Share this story It was, by common consent, one of the most beautiful fighters ever built, and one of the most complete. Bigger, faster and longer-legged than the Mirage 2000 it grew from, the Dassault Mirage 4000 was France’s bid to build a true heavyweight, a...
The Army Bets Its Next Pilots on a Little Robinson
Share this story The world’s most powerful army just decided its next combat pilots will learn to fly on a helicopter you could, in principle, buy off a dealer’s lot. On August 13, the U.S. Army picked M1 Support Services and its partner Robinson...
Mystery Drones Keep Buzzing Australia’s F-35 Base
Share this story For three days in July, something kept flying over the most sensitive fighter base in Australia, and nobody could say what, or whose. Between July 11 and 13, multiple unidentified drones slipped into restricted airspace above RAAF Base Williamtown in...
America Just Lost a Quarter of Its Reapers
Share this story The number landed like a dropped bomb: roughly 45 MQ-9 Reapers gone, about a quarter of the entire fleet, at a cost the Pentagon puts north of $1.3 billion for that one weapon system alone. That is the tally the Washington Post reported on August 13,...
The Cruise Missiles Submarines Fired on Deck
Share this story Long before the Tomahawk, and years before Polaris let a submarine fire a nuclear missile from beneath the waves, America’s first seagoing deterrent worked in the most nerve-wracking way imaginable. To shoot, the submarine had to surface in...
The Last Stand of Taffy 3
Share this story Just after dawn on October 25, 1944, lookouts on a cluster of small American ships off the island of Samar saw something that should not have been there: pagoda masts on the horizon. The most powerful surface fleet Japan could still put to sea —...
Was the Air Force One Decoy Embarrassing?
Share this story The image is almost too strange to be true: the President of the United States, having boarded Air Force One in front of the world’s cameras, quietly slipping back off the jet and into an airport catering truck — then flying home on a different...
Korea Wants Its Own Meteor Missile
Share this story South Korea has built its own stealth-shaped fighter. Now it wants its own long reach to go with it. On August 12, Korea Aerospace Industries and Hyundai Rotem signed a memorandum of understanding at KAI’s Sacheon headquarters to jointly develop...
The Snowbirds Retire Their Jet
Share this story Nine little red jets, wingtips almost touching, trailing white smoke across a summer sky. For generations of Canadians that image is the air show. After the 2026 season, it changes forever: the Snowbirds are retiring the CT-114 Tutor, the tiny jet...
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