Share this story Two robot fighters went hunting over Nevada, and nobody was in the sky to tell them where to turn. On Monday 26 October 2026, a pair of Anduril FQ-44A Fury drones flew in formation and carried out beyond-visual-range air combat maneuvers against a...
Share this story Somewhere in a warehouse, a repair shop or a shipping container, there is an F-35 part that the Pentagon owns, paid for and cannot find. Actually, there are a lot of them. And according to the US Government Accountability Office, the people in charge...
Share this story At about 11 o’clock on the morning of Sunday 8 November, three grey fighters dropped out of the sky over Taiwan’s Pacific coast and lined up on the runway at Chihhang Air Base in Taitung. The first to land, tail number 6732, carried a...
Share this story The Blue Angels are built around the number six. Six jets, six pilots, one Delta formation that closes every show. On Friday 6 November, as the team opened its season finale at home in Pensacola, it took off one jet short. The US Navy has removed a...
Share this story For years, the US Air Force insisted its newest Eagles did not need the extra padding. The F-15EX was an air-to-air replacement for the F-15C/D, the argument went, and air-to-air Eagles fly with drop tanks. Conformal fuel tanks were for the bomb...
Share this story At 7:15 in the morning local time on 1 November 1952, the United States detonated the first true hydrogen bomb on the island of Elugelab, in Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Code-named Mike and nicknamed the Sausage, it was not a weapon anyone...
Share this story On 5 November 1959, North American Aviation test pilot Scott Crossfield dropped away from the wing of the NB-52A mothership at about 45,000 feet and Mach 0.82, over Bouquet Canyon Reservoir, some 35 miles southwest of Edwards Air Force Base. He was in...
Share this story Somewhere over the lakes and ridgelines of British Columbia’s Cariboo Chilcotin, a blue helicopter with White Saddle painted on its doors is about to go to work. It carries a number no other Bell 407 can claim: it is the 2,000th one delivered....
Share this story Drones are cheap. Seeing them coming is not. That is the bet behind a $5.3 billion deal from the company that wants to build a runway-free fighter drone.On 5 November 2026, Shield, the defense technology company better known as Shield AI, announced a...
Share this story NASA has a new X-plane, and it is not the Blackbird. On Wednesday, 4 November 2026, the agency unveiled the X-70 Fractal, a crewed, high-performance research jet built around flight controls that can be reconfigured quickly from one experiment to the...
Share this story The US Navy wants 216 new jet trainers. It wrote a requirement, ran years of market research, issued its final request for proposals in March 2026 and, after extending the deadline from 30 June, set bids due on 30 October 2026. Five manufacturers had...
Share this story No runway. No cockpit. No landing gear. Shield AI has finally pulled the covers off the real thing: X-BAT 001, the first full-scale prototype of the jet-powered, tail-sitting combat drone the Texas company has been promising since it unveiled the...
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