Share this story The U.S. Marine Corps is surging fifth-generation fighters into the Middle East at a scale that signals a fundamental shift in the region’s air war. As of late March 2026, a dual-track F-35 deployment is unfolding simultaneously—carrier-based...
Share this story RAF Fairford has become a American fortress. On the Gloucestershire tarmac, parked wing-tip to wing-tip, sit 21 heavy bombers—15 B-1B Lancers and 6 B-52H Stratofortresses—representing the largest forward-deployed bomber concentration since the Cold...
Share this story A German fighter pilot sits in the cockpit of a Eurofighter Typhoon, but she’s not alone. Alongside her wingman—a sleek, autonomous drone packed with sensors and weapons—executes maneuvers no human could withstand. This isn’t science...
Share this story A split-second left-hand turn. A missile detonating just meters behind the canopy. A pilot alive only because chance—or instinct—moved his jet out of a kill zone. On March 25, 2026, a US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet conducted a low-altitude strafing run...
Share this story On March 27, 2026, Iranian ballistic missiles and drones screamed across the Arabian Gulf and slammed into Prince Sultan Air Base south of Riyadh. When the dust settled, the damage was devastating: a U.S. Air Force E-3G Sentry early-warning aircraft...
Share this story In October 2023, Turkey was expelled from the F-35 programme. The reason: Ankara had purchased the Russian S-400 air defence system, and Washington refused to risk integrating America’s most advanced stealth fighter into an air force that also...
Share this story The fighter jets rolling onto the runway at NAS Fallon in Nevada are not U.S. Navy aircraft. They are operated by TacAir — a private company based in Reno. The pilots in the cockpits are civilians, many of them former military. Their job is to fly...
Share this story It came home to Portsmouth on October 11, 2025, callsign TABOR61, nose adorned with two small silhouettes of Shahed-type drones alongside the figure of Ares. The Idaho Air National Guard A-10C had just finished six months in the CENTCOM area of...
Share this story Photographers watching the B-2 Spirits taxi out for another Iran mission on March 25 noticed something odd. Rows of white rectangular patches — uniformly sized, black-bordered — running along the leading edges of both wings. On two separate aircraft....
Share this story In U.S. defence procurement, hitting your cost target is newsworthy. Beating it significantly is almost unheard of. Yet that is exactly what Air Force officials are claiming about the Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme — the effort to build...
Share this story At Edwards Air Force Base in February 2026, an F-22 Raptor pilot did something no fighter pilot has done before in an official U.S. Air Force exercise: he commanded a drone wingman in combat-like conditions. From his cockpit, using a specialist...
Share this story Poland does not make fighter jets. It hasn’t produced a combat aircraft in decades. But right now, Warsaw is knocking on the door of one of the most exclusive clubs in aerospace — the Global Combat Air Programme — and asking to be let in. What...
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