Satellite Images Confirm Drone Damage at Millerovo and Sochi
Claims about strikes deep inside Russia are cheap. Verification is not. This week the satellites caught up with two of them, and the pictures are unusually specific about what Ukrainian drones actually hit. At Millerovo air base in Rostov Oblast, imagery published by...
CENTCOM Strikes Three Iranian Oil Tankers After Carrier Attack
Two Iranian ballistic missiles came off the rail on Saturday morning and went for a United States aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer. Both missed. Nobody aboard either ship was hurt. The answer arrived within hours, and it was not aimed at a radar site or...
F-4 Phantom Crash at Athens Flying Week Kills Two Pilots
The display had been running for barely two minutes. Thousands of people were standing along the fence line at Tanagra Air Base, north of Athens, cameras up, waiting for the noise that only a Phantom makes. Then the jet came out of a turn, low, and did not climb. At...
Russian Drone Hits SBU Headquarters: Kyiv Spy Chief’s Office Targeted
At about half past three on Friday afternoon, a Russian drone came down on a grey neoclassical block at 33 Volodymyrska Street in central Kyiv, directly across the road from St Sophia Cathedral. The building is the headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine, the...
Swiss Patriot Deal With Germany Collapses, Costs Could Triple
Switzerland ordered its Patriot air defence system in 2022 and expected the first fire unit to arrive in 2026. It is now 4 September 2026, nothing has arrived, and the workaround that was supposed to rescue the timetable has just fallen apart. Armasuisse has confirmed...
Piasecki Helistat: Four Helicopters Bolted to a Blimp
In the summer of 1986 the largest aircraft in the world sat on a ramp at Lakehurst, New Jersey, three quarters of a mile from where the Hindenburg had burned. It was 343 feet long. It was a Navy blimp with four helicopters bolted underneath it. On 1 July it lifted a...
Kamov Ka-22 Vintokryl: The Soviet Record Breaker That Killed Nine
On 24 November 1961, a machine that looked like somebody had bolted two helicopters to the wingtips of a transport aircraft lifted 16.4 tonnes to two and a half kilometres, set six world records in one flight, and landed thirty minutes later with its fuel warning...
SNCASE Baroudeur: The French Fighter With No Landing Gear
Every fighter jet has the same fatal dependency: a long strip of concrete. Destroy the runway and the aircraft is a very expensive ornament. In the early 1950s, with NATO planners assuming their handful of airfields in Germany would be atomised in the opening hours of...
Thule 1968: Four Hydrogen Bombs on the Greenland Ice
Somebody put four foam cushions on a heating vent. That is where it starts. Not with a missile, not with a Soviet fighter, not with a catastrophic structural failure. Three cloth-covered cushions stowed on a hot-air outlet under a seat before take-off, and a fourth...
Marina Raskova and the Rodina: Ten Days Alone in the Taiga
At about seven thousand five hundred feet over the swamp forests of the Soviet Far East, a young woman clipped on a parachute, opened a hatch in the glazed nose of a bomber, and jumped out into freezing air because the alternative was to be crushed when the aircraft...
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