RAF Air Command Is Now Air & Space Command After 19 Years
The Royal Air Force has a motto that was chosen in 1912, long before anyone had a serious plan for getting there: per ardua ad astra, through adversity to the stars. On 1 September 2026 the RAF quietly took the astra part literally. Air Command, the headquarters of...
Rare P-40C Warhawk Belly-Lands in a Field Near Royston
The Fighter Collection at Duxford flies aeroplanes that most museums would bolt to a plinth. Late last month one of the rarest of them had an engine problem on a maintenance check flight and ended up on its belly in a field northwest of Royston. The pilot was not...
PEGASE 26: France Sends Four Rafales 40,000 km Around the World
Four fighters is not an air force. Four fighters, three tankers, two airlifters and three hundred people who can put all of that down on a foreign runway and have it flying again the next morning — that is an air force, compressed. On 8 September the French Air...
Turkish Airlines A340 Turned Science Centre Destroyed by Fire
Almost every retired airliner ends the same way. It sits in a desert or a Turkish boneyard, the engines come off, the useful parts are stripped, and what is left goes through a shredder. TC-JDL got a second life instead. The Airbus A340-311 was cut up, loaded onto...
Satellite Images Confirm Drone Damage at Millerovo and Sochi
Claims about strikes deep inside Russia are cheap. Verification is not. This week the satellites caught up with two of them, and the pictures are unusually specific about what Ukrainian drones actually hit. At Millerovo air base in Rostov Oblast, imagery published by...
Air India A320neo Lost All Three Hydraulic Systems at 36,000 Feet
The Airbus A320 has three hydraulic systems, and they are separate on purpose. Green, blue and yellow. Three reservoirs, three pressure sources, no fluid shared between them. The architecture exists so that no single failure can take away the flight controls. On 4...
CENTCOM Strikes Three Iranian Oil Tankers After Carrier Attack
Two Iranian ballistic missiles came off the rail on Saturday morning and went for a United States aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer. Both missed. Nobody aboard either ship was hurt. The answer arrived within hours, and it was not aimed at a radar site or...
F-4 Phantom Crash at Athens Flying Week Kills Two Pilots
The display had been running for barely two minutes. Thousands of people were standing along the fence line at Tanagra Air Base, north of Athens, cameras up, waiting for the noise that only a Phantom makes. Then the jet came out of a turn, low, and did not climb. At...
Russian Drone Hits SBU Headquarters: Kyiv Spy Chief’s Office Targeted
At about half past three on Friday afternoon, a Russian drone came down on a grey neoclassical block at 33 Volodymyrska Street in central Kyiv, directly across the road from St Sophia Cathedral. The building is the headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine, the...
Swiss Patriot Deal With Germany Collapses, Costs Could Triple
Switzerland ordered its Patriot air defence system in 2022 and expected the first fire unit to arrive in 2026. It is now 4 September 2026, nothing has arrived, and the workaround that was supposed to rescue the timetable has just fallen apart. Armasuisse has confirmed...
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