SPECTRA and Praetorian: Europe’s Fighter Self-Protection Suites
Share this story Look at a F-16 rigged for a contested mission and you can count the self-protection on your fingers, because most of it is bolted on. A jamming pod on a station that could have carried a weapon. A dispenser modification. A decoy on a wire. Each box...
Anthropic Report: A Yemen Cell Used Claude Code to Write Missile Guidance Software
Share this story An artificial-intelligence model helping to build missiles sounds like science fiction. According to its own maker, it has already happened. In its threat intelligence report of 10 September 2026, the AI company Anthropic says a weapons cell in...
Lockheed Electra 10E: The Airliner Amelia Earhart Vanished In
Share this story This week a team of archaeologists, divers and Purdue University representatives went ashore on Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in Kiribati, to look at a shape in a lagoon. If they are lucky, it is the wreck of the most famous lost aeroplane in...
British Airways BA2660: A321 Turns Back to Gatwick With a Cracked Window
Share this story About an hour after leaving London Gatwick on Tuesday morning, somewhere past Brittany, the crew of British Airways flight BA2660 to Faro turned their Airbus A321 around. A passenger window on the right-hand side of the cabin, near row 3, had been...
Corendon XR456: Eurofighters Escort a 737 Squawking 7500 Into Nuremberg
Share this story Somewhere over the Balkans, shortly after 11 o’clock on Tuesday morning, a routine holiday flight from Corfu to Nuremberg set four digits in its transponder that no air traffic controller wants to see: 7500. In the language of aviation, that...
Oman Air 787-9 Grounded at Malpensa After Ramp Damage
Share this story The most expensive moment in an airliner’s day is often not in the air. It is on the ramp, when trucks, tugs, belt loaders and catering lifts crowd around a parked aircraft with minutes to spare. On the evening of Sunday, 11 October, that moment...
Airbus U740 Valkyrie: First Flight for Europe’s Combat Drone
Share this story Somewhere over northern Europe on Monday morning, a slim grey wedge with no cockpit sat on a launch rail, lit a rocket booster and went flying. No runway. No pilot. No ladder, no canopy, no crew bus. The aircraft is the Airbus U740 Valkyrie, and it...
Interned in Switzerland: The US Bomber Crews Who Landed in a Neutral Country
Share this story For a crippled American bomber over southern Germany in 1944, Switzerland was often the nearest safe ground. Between August 1943 and April 1945, 166 US bombers came down there. Their crews were safe from the war, but not free: under international law,...
Inside the Su-34 Cockpit: No Bunk, No Tail Radar, and a Can Heater
Share this story The Sukhoi Su-34 “Fullback” is one of the odder fighters in service: a two-seat strike jet with the crew sitting side by side, a pressurised cabin you can stand up in, and a reputation for creature comforts. A post circulating on Instagram...
GCAP Fighter: Edgewing Opens Its First National Site in Turin
Share this story Italy’s share of the next-generation fighter now has an address. On Friday, 9 October 2026, Edgewing, the joint company designing the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) fighter for Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, cut the ribbon on Edgewing...
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