Hubert Zemke: The Commander Who Built the 56th Fighter Group Wolf Pack
Share this story Some aces are remembered for their kills. Hubert Zemke is remembered for his pilots. As commander of the US Eighth Air Force’s 56th Fighter Group, he turned a unit of eager young P-47 Thunderbolt pilots into Zemke’s Wolf Pack, one of the...
RAF Fairford Plot: UK PM Burnham Sees ‘Strong Indications’ of Iran Role
Share this story Britain has named a suspect state. Four days after police arrested five men near RAF Fairford, the Gloucestershire base that hosts American bombers, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the BBC on 30 September that there are strong indications Iran played...
J-10CE in Azerbaijani Colours: China Pitches Its Fighter at ADEX 2026
Share this story Walk past the outdoor displays at ADEX 2026 in Baku and you will find a Chinese fighter wearing Azerbaijani colours. China’s state aerospace group AVIC has parked a full-scale mock-up of the Chengdu J-10CE at the Azerbaijan International Defence...
UAE’s Shadow Airlift: 100+ Missions on Sanctioned Russian Il-76s
Share this story The aircraft are old, white and almost anonymous: four-engined Ilyushin Il-76 freighters with Russian registrations and no airline name on the side. According to a Defense News investigation published on 30 September, they have also flown more than...
Ukraine’s F-16s: Half the Fleet Stuck in Maintenance, Guns Used on Drones
Share this story Ukraine finally has the jet it begged for. The problem is getting it out of the hangar. More than half of the Ukrainian Air Force’s F-16 Fighting Falcons are currently tied up in maintenance, according to a Wall Street Journal report published...
K2 Airways 1732: Pakistan Navy Locates Black Box at 3,200 Metres
Share this story Three point two kilometres of water sit on top of the only object that can explain what happened to K2 Airways Flight 1732. The Pakistan Navy says it has found it. The announcement came on 29 and 30 September 2026, almost three months after the Boeing...
flydubai FZ1073: What Is Known About the Co-Pilot, and What Is Not
Share this story Within nine hours of flydubai FZ1073 landing at Tabuk, an Israeli cabinet minister had called it a jihadist terror attack, a finance minister had said the perpetrator should pay as though he had murdered, and the airline flying the aircraft had asked...
China Opens Air Force Training Centre in Laos at Ban Keun Airport
Share this story China has very few military footholds abroad, and on 29 September 2026 it quietly added one more. Beijing’s Ministry of National Defence announced that a China-Laos Joint Support and Training Center and a China-Laos Friendship Aviation Academy...
Belgium to Give Ukraine Three F-16s by the End of 2026
Share this story Belgium promised Ukraine fighter jets more than two years ago. On 29 September 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky finally put a number and a date on the first of them: three Belgian F-16 Fighting Falcons, to be handed over before the end of this year. Zelensky...
Boeing Wins F/A-XX: The Navy’s Sixth-Generation Fighter Goes to St. Louis
Share this story The US Navy has picked Boeing to build its next carrier fighter. On Tuesday 29 September 2026, the Pentagon announced that Boeing had won the F/A-XX competition against Northrop Grumman, with a full-scale development contract valued at more than $20...
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