Share this story On Monday in Athens, Greece signed for three Embraer KC-390 Millennium transports, with options for three more, to replace a Hellenic Air Force C-130H fleet that has been flying since the 1970s. Within hours the comment sections filled with the same...
Share this story The missile does not roar out of the tube. It pops. A small motor kicks it clear of the launcher, and only when the missile is several metres away does its main motor light with a crack and a streak of smoke. That gentle start is one of the tricks...
Share this story In October 1978 a huge freighter lifted off from Rolls-Royce’s airfield at Hucknall with a problem its crew could not fix. The flaps had dropped on take-off and would not come back up. So pilots Bob Reynolds and ‘Rocky’ Oliver flew...
Share this story For 55 years, the helicopter that answers the phone in a Washington crisis has had two rotor blades and a whup-whup-whup that Washingtonians know by heart. On Monday 2 November 2026, its replacement finally showed up for work. A grey HH-60W Jolly...
Share this story A Saab Gripen E has flown beyond-visual-range combat scenarios with an artificial intelligence in control. Not a partner’s AI this time, but software Saab wrote, trained and tested entirely by itself. On Tuesday 3 November 2026, Saab lifted the...
Share this story Athens signed the paperwork on Monday, and with it the Hellenic Air Force finally got an answer to a question it had been dodging for most of a decade: what replaces the Hercules? The answer is Brazilian, routed through Lisbon. Greece has ordered...
Share this story On 24 October 1974, a C-5A Galaxy flying over the Pacific let an intercontinental ballistic missile fall out of its cargo hold. The 86,000-pound Minuteman I dropped from 20,000 feet to about 8,000 feet. Then its first-stage motor lit, and a ten-second...
Share this story Walk up to almost any fighter on a museum flight line and look closely at the nose. On a Korean F-4E Phantom, the very tip is jet black. On plenty of other jets the nose cone is a subtly different grey from the fuselage behind it, as if it had been...
Share this story Early on the morning of 8 January 1944, busloads of generals and political guests pulled up beside the dry lake bed at Muroc Army Air Field in California, today’s Edwards Air Force Base. They had come to watch a small, dark green fighter with no...
Share this story Before he said a word about fighters, Ashutosh Dixit did something no briefing note asked of him. On the morning of Sunday 1 November 2026, the new head of the Indian Air Force laid a wreath at the National War Memorial in New Delhi, then turned to...
Share this story For years, the most capable surveillance drone in the Royal Air Force was not allowed to fly over Britain at all. In October, its successor spent more than ten hours over the English Channel, watching a Russian warship sail past the south coast. Late...
Share this story A P-51 Mustang pulls up off the crowd line at an American air show, rolls inverted at the top of the climb, and the Merlin rearranges something in your chest. Somewhere in that cockpit is a certificate. It is not the certificate a Cessna carries. A...
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