Blue Angels and Thunderbirds Fill NAS Jacksonville
Share this story Some fans set alarms for 3:30 a.m. Others crawled through three hours of traffic and then parked on the roadside, hoping the tow trucks had the weekend off. By just after 1 p.m. on Saturday, Naval Air Station Jacksonville announced it was full. The...
Germany Drops Direct MQ-28 Ghost Bat Purchase
Share this story Seven months ago it was the front-runner. In March, Rheinmetall and Boeing signed up to bring the MQ-28 Ghost Bat to Germany; in June, it was shown at ILA Berlin with a bigger wing and new German partners. This week Berlin quietly took it off the...
Belgium Raises F-16 Pledge: Ten Jets for Ukraine
Share this story Two weeks ago the number was three. On Thursday evening in Brussels, over a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the EU summit, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever more than tripled it. Belgium, he said, will hand Ukraine ten F-16 fighters before...
Mi-28NM Hit Again: Ukraine Claims a Second Havoc in a Week
Share this story The camera is mounted on a small fixed-wing drone, and it is chasing a helicopter. A camouflaged Russian Mi-28NM fills more of the frame with every second as the drone closes from behind and slightly above, lined up on the engine bay. Then the video...
RAF Drone Near-Misses: Mystery Objects Buzz a Voyager and Typhoon
Share this story Sixteen thousand feet above the North Sea, 32 nautical miles north-north-east of Cromer, an RAF Voyager tanker was passing fuel to a Typhoon on 18 February 2026. Then something black and circular flashed towards the windscreen and passed 100 to 150...
HMS Prince of Wales Sails for the High North With F-35Bs
Share this story Families lined the Round Tower in Old Portsmouth on Sunday afternoon, 18 October 2026, as HMS Prince of Wales slipped out of harbour. The 65,000-tonne carrier, Britain’s biggest warship, was due to leave at 17:00, weather permitting, and the...
Saudi AH-6i Helicopter Crash in Najran: Two Officers Killed
Share this story Two Saudi officers are dead, and there are two versions of how they died. In one, their small attack helicopter suffered a technical failure and fell out of the sky near the Yemeni border. In the other, a Houthi weapon brought it down. On Sunday 18...
Lithuania Drone Incident: Suspected Drone Explodes, Not Shot Down
Share this story Somewhere over northern Lithuania, early on Sunday morning, something exploded. A driver on the road from Biržai toward Pasvalys heard the bang, and debris struck the door of a moving car. Nobody was hurt, but air raid alerts had sent people across...
Romanian F-16s Shoot Down Two Geran Jet Drones Off Sulina
Share this story The sun was going down over the Danube Delta when the radar picture filled with targets. A group of aircraft was moving southwest across the Black Sea, about 120 kilometres east of Snake Island, on a course that pointed straight at the Romanian coast....
F-35 Sensor Fusion: How Three Sensors Become One Track
Share this story A fighter pilot looks down at the display and sees a symbol. One symbol, in one place, with a speed, a heading and a label saying what it is and whose side it is on. Behind that single symbol, several entirely different machines have reported entirely...
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