NATO Is Scrapping Air Policing: Inside Standing Defense Plan 12000
Share this story A Russian drone crossed into Lithuanian airspace overnight on 15 September, and NATO fighters shot it down. That part has happened before — by the alliance air commander’s own count, at least six times now.What is new is that the officer...
BAE Shadow EW: Electronic Warfare Small Enough for a Cheap Drone
Share this story Electronic warfare has always been an expensive aircraft’s privilege. The jamming pod on an EA-18G Growler is a large, power-hungry, individually precious thing, hung on an aircraft that costs tens of millions of dollars and is flown by people...
YFQ-44A Fury Fit-Checked With Air-to-Ground Bombs and Rocket Pods
Share this story Until now, Anduril’s YFQ-44A Fury has been an air-to-air aircraft. It carries AIM-120 AMRAAMs, it flies alongside crewed fighters, and in July it became the first American collaborative combat aircraft to fire a missile in anger at a test...
Veer Guardian 26: Japan Sends Fighters to India for the First Time
Share this story Three Mitsubishi F-2As landed at Air Force Station Jodhpur this month, and in doing so did something no Japanese fighter had ever done: deploy operationally to an Indian air base.Exercise Veer Guardian 26 runs from 9 to 21 September at Jodhpur and in...
TERCOM and DSMAC: How a Cruise Missile Finds Its Target Without GPS
Share this story A Tomahawk leaves a destroyer’s deck, climbs, settles down to a few hundred feet and flies for up to 1,600 kilometres (870 miles) at 880 km/h (550 mph). At the end of that, it is expected to arrive at a specific building. Not a city. A...
Sepehran Airlines 737: Burst Tyre, Collapsing Ceiling at Mashhad
Share this story The video is short and very loud. A Boeing 737 is shaking itself half to pieces somewhere over northeastern Iran, and above the heads of the passengers the ceiling is coming apart — long panels of interior lining folding down out of the roofline and...
The Man Who Painted Fake Cockpits on Fighter Jets
Share this story Look at the belly of the aircraft below. There is a cockpit on it. No glass, no pilot, no hole in the airframe. It is paint. A Royal Canadian Air Force CF-188 Hornet from below. The dark shape behind the radome is not a window. It is paint. Photo:...
AGM-190A Havoc Spear: AFSOC Fires Its New Cruise Missile in Combat
Share this story Somewhere over Africa this spring, a four-engine turboprop that first flew in 1954 rolled its ramp open and pushed a missile out the back. The missile fell clear, unfolded its wings, lit a small turbojet and flew away. Minutes later it was several...
FIDO: How Britain Burned the Fog Off Its Runways
Share this story On the night of 16 December 1943, Bomber Command came home to an England that had disappeared. Radiation fog had closed almost every airfield in the east. Crews who had survived Berlin circled above a white nothing until their tanks ran dry. At RAF...
Farnborough 1952: The DH.110 That Broke Up Over the Crowd
Share this story On 6 September 1948, John Derry became the first Briton to fly faster than sound, in a de Havilland DH.108. Four years later to the day, on 6 September 1952, he was killed at Farnborough in front of a crowd of a hundred thousand people, along with his...
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