Operation Rimon 20: Israel’s Ambush of Soviet MiG Pilots
Share this story On 30 July 1970, four Israeli Mirages flew a routine photo-reconnaissance profile over the Gulf of Suez. They climbed to 35,000 feet, made the standard radio calls, and flew in a formation so tight that Soviet radar operators read four aircraft as...
Tempest Jobs: Where Britain’s Next Fighter Is Really Built
Share this story Stuart Anderson MP asked a dull question in July and got a dull answer in September. Buried in it is the clearest picture anyone has yet published of where Britain’s next fighter is actually being built — and a small arithmetic problem....
JP Aerospace Teases a Hypersonic Dropped From an Airship
Share this story Last week a volunteer-run space programme in Rancho Cordova, California, released some pictures. They show a dark, wing-shaped vehicle called Hazel dropping away from twin balloons joined by a long truss, high above the Earth. They are stills from an...
Delta Resumes JFK-Tel Aviv After a Six-Month War Gap
Share this story DL234 pushed back from JFK Terminal 4 on Sunday afternoon and landed at Ben Gurion on Monday morning. An Airbus A330-900neo, 281 seats, ten and three quarter hours eastbound. It is an entirely ordinary flight, and it had not operated since 28...
Poland Scrambled an Mi-24 Over Belarus. It Was Birds.
Share this story At 12:45 on Sunday afternoon, Polish controllers pulled a slice of airspace east of Lublin out of civil use. At 13:15, Poland’s Operational Command announced that an unidentified object had crossed from the direction of Belarus. A duty Mi-24 was...
Strait of Hormuz: Iran Claims a US Drone Boat, CENTCOM Says No
Share this story On Sunday morning, Iranian state television announced that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had struck a remotely operated US military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, after it tried to enter what Iran calls a restricted area. By Sunday afternoon,...
ANA Orders Eight More E190-E2s Before Its First One Arrives
Share this story Airlines do not usually order more of an aircraft they have never flown. ANA has just ordered eight. Embraer announced the deal from Tokyo on 4 September, formalising a decision the ANA Holdings board took on 29 July. It takes ANA’s firm order...
Petrel AERO Sky: The Drone Mothership the Rangers Are Testing
Share this story The caption was eleven words long. “Golden hour. Live fire. Mothership operations with 75th Ranger Regiment, U.S. Army.” That is the entirety of what has been made public about the US Army’s most secretive infantry unit testing a...
Operation Atlantic City: An RAF A400M Lands on Jan Mayen
Share this story There is no harbour on Jan Mayen. There is no town, no permanent population, and for most of the year not much daylight either. There is a strip of black volcanic gravel about a kilometre and a half long, no instrument approach, and a 2,277-metre...
Anak Krakatau Eruption Closes Eight Indonesian Airports
Share this story At 23:07 on Friday night, local time, Anak Krakatau started throwing lava into the sky and did not stop for twenty-five hours. People heard the booming 700 kilometres away. By Sunday morning the biggest airport in Southeast Asia’s fourth-largest...
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