Algeria Turns to China: J-10C Fighters and KJ-500 AWACS Break Six Decades of Russian Monopoly
Share this story For more than six decades, every fighter jet in the Algerian Air Force has come from one country: Russia. MiG-21s, MiG-25s, Su-30MKAs, MiG-29s — the entire combat fleet reads like a catalogue of Soviet and Russian design bureaux. That era is about to...
Ukrainian F-16 Pilots Threw Away the NATO Playbook — Here’s What They Built Instead
Share this story The West gave Ukraine its best single-engine fighter. Then Ukraine’s pilots threw away the instruction manual. Since the first F-16 Fighting Falcons arrived in Ukrainian skies in August 2024, the pilots who fly them have compiled a combat record...
C-17s Over Caracas: When Earthquakes Call, the Air Force Answers
When twin earthquakes ripped through northern Venezuela on 24 June — a magnitude 7.2 foreshock followed 39 seconds later by a catastrophic magnitude 7.5 mainshock — the country’s fragile infrastructure collapsed in minutes. Buildings pancaked across Caracas....
Edwards Resumes Flying After Deadliest B-52 Crash in 44 Years
Share this story Edwards Air Force Base is flying again. The question everyone at the desert test centre is still asking is why it had to stop. On 15 June, B-52H tail number 60-0061 — call sign Torch 11 — crashed moments after takeoff from Edwards, killing all eight...
Iran Strikes Back: IRGC Hits US Bases Across the Gulf
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck American military installations across the Persian Gulf on Sunday, launching ballistic missiles and armed drones at bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in what Tehran called a direct response to US strikes on Iranian targets near...
Russia and China Fly Largest Joint Bomber Patrol Yet
Share this story Fifteen warplanes. Two nuclear powers. One very pointed message. On 27 June, Russia and China flew their largest joint strategic bomber patrol to date — a six-hour formation sweep through the Sea of Japan, East China Sea, and into the western Pacific....
The Air Force Wants a 1,000-Mile Missile — and It Changes Everything
The United States Air Force has quietly dropped one of the most ambitious weapons requirements in recent memory: a new air-to-air missile capable of killing targets at a minimum distance of 1,000 nautical miles — roughly 1,150 statute miles. That is approximately ten...
NATO Offers €250K to Kill a Russian Airfield
Share this story NATO just put a bounty on Russian airfields — and the price tag is surprisingly modest. Allied Command Transformation and the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre have launched “Persistent Airfield Denial,” an...
Serbia Buys Chinese HQ-9: Beijing’s Missiles in NATO’s Backyard
Share this story Two hundred miles from the nearest NATO border, Serbia is building an air defence network that Beijing designed and no Western alliance approved. On 28 June, President Aleksandar Vucic confirmed what defence analysts had suspected for months: Belgrade...
Ghost Bat Goes to War: MQ-28 Debuts at Valiant Shield
Share this story The future of air combat just landed on a tiny Pacific island. Boeing’s MQ-28A Ghost Bat — the autonomous combat drone that could change everything about how wars are fought in the air — touched down at a remote airfield on Rota in the Northern...
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