Share this story Why one was won in days and the other drags into year four Two ongoing conflicts. Two air forces attempting to dominate enemy skies. Two very different outcomes. The contrast between how Israel and the United States established air superiority over...
Share this story Japan’s newest and most unusual-looking military aircraft — the Kawasaki EC-2 stand-off jammer, nicknamed the “Platypus” for its ungainly but purpose-built shape — completed its maiden flight on March 17, 2026, lifting off from Gifu...
Share this story A B-52H Stratofortress has been photographed in flight over California carrying two inert examples of the AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile — the nuclear-armed weapon system designed to replace the United States’ aging AGM-86 Air...
Share this story What appears to be the United States’ most secretive unmanned aircraft — the classified Northrop Grumman RQ-180 — was photographed over the city of Larissa, Greece on March 18, 2026, providing what analysts are calling the clearest public...
Share this story On February 1, 1943, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress flew home from Tunisia with its tail section barely attached — connected to the rest of the plane by little more than a few metal longerons and a strip of aluminum skin. The ten men inside...
Share this story Aviation photographer Jarod Hamilton captured the sharpest images yet of an F-22A Raptor flying with both stealthy external fuel tanks and specialised sensor pods at Edwards Air Force Base on March 21, 2026 — providing the clearest look to date at a...
Share this story On February 9, 1943, a fully fueled American military cargo aircraft took off from Florida with a crew of eight — and landed in Mexico four and a half hours later with a crew of zero. No hijacking. No remote control. Just the most incredible solo...
Share this story Imagine falling out of an airplane at 15,000 feet with no parachute. Now imagine landing back inside it. For one Royal Flying Corps gunner in 1918, this wasn’t a nightmare — it was just another Tuesday. Aviation has always been a realm where the...
Share this story South Korea reached a landmark milestone on March 25, 2026, when the first series-production KF-21 Boramae fighter jet rolled out of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) factory in Sacheon under its own power — marking the birth of a new chapter in...
Share this story In April 1942, Soviet fighter pilot Alexey Maresyev was shot down behind enemy lines over the forests of Novgorod Oblast. What followed was one of the most extraordinary — and largely untold — stories of human endurance in the history of aviation....
Share this story On the afternoon of Friday, 26 October 2001, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, Edward “Pete” Aldridge, stepped up to a podium in Washington. Three thousand kilometres away, Boeing chairman Phil Condit and his Joint Strike Fighter boss, Frank Statkus,...
Share this story It was a Friday afternoon at the Pentagon, 29 February 2008 — a leap day, fittingly, for a decision almost nobody saw coming. Air Force officials stepped before the press to name the winner of the KC-X tanker programme, 179 aircraft and roughly 35...
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