Share this story On May 28, 1987, an 18-year-old West German with 50 hours of flying experience took off from Helsinki in a rented Cessna 172. He told air traffic control he was heading for Stockholm. He turned east instead — straight into the most heavily defended...
Share this story It looks like a shipping container. The kind you see stacked on cargo ships, loaded onto flatbed trucks, sitting in industrial lots from Rotterdam to Riyadh. Ten feet long, standard Tricon ISO spec, unremarkable in every visible way. Inside it is a...
Share this story At 12:50 PM on March 29, four F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters touched down at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan. They taxied to the ramp, engines winding down, canopies opening in the cold northern air. It looked routine. It...
Share this story The first 100 hours of Operation Epic Fury cost approximately $3.7 billion — roughly $891 million per day. A staggering share of that went to a single, maddening problem: shooting down cheap Iranian drones with some of the most expensive aircraft on...
Share this story The drone that killed a $21 million helicopter cost less than a decent pair of headphones. On March 23, an Iran-backed militia launched a first-person-view drone at Victory Base Complex near Baghdad International Airport. The target was an HH-60M...
Share this story On March 25, a Gripen E fighter jet — designation F-39E, serial FAB 4109 — rolled out of Embraer’s facility in Gavião Peixoto, São Paulo state. It looks identical to every other Gripen E. But this one was built in Brazil, not Sweden. And that changes...
Share this story Related: Mines in the Street: America’s Secret Weapon Against Iran’s Missiles New video evidence analyzed by Bellingcat reveals that the February 28 strike on an IRGC compound in Minab — which also destroyed the adjacent Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’...
Share this story On March 25, a U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet screamed low over the Iranian port city of Chabahar, its M61A2 Vulcan cannon spitting 20mm rounds at targets near the Imam Ali IRGC Naval Base. Seconds later, a shoulder-fired missile streaked upward and...
Share this story Eleven months deployed out of twelve. Thousands of combat hours. The first-ever air-to-air kills for the F-35A. The 34th Fighter Squadron just earned the Raytheon Trophy — and no unit in the Air Force had a more gruelling year to show for it. The...
Share this story For three consecutive days last week, two of America’s most secretive flying laboratories circled over the Gulf of Mexico in tight formation — and the aviation intelligence community is buzzing about what they were testing. Northrop...
Share this story Iran’s missiles have turned Al Udeid Air Base into the most dangerous American address in the Middle East. Now CENTCOM wants to bury its nerve centre underground — but a retired three-star general says the plan is already too late. Air Forces...
Share this story A homemade explosive device sits dormant at the visitor center of MacDill Air Force Base on March 10, 2026. It fails to detonate. By March 25, authorities track the suspect to Chinese soil. The investigation exposes a chilling breach at one of...
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