Six Names: The Human Cost of Keeping Epic Fury in the Air
Share this story Six names. That is what the U.S. Air Force released on March 14, 2026, two days after a KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in Iraq. Maj. John Klinner. Capt. Ariana Savino. Tech. Sgt. Ashley Pruitt. Capt. Seth Koval. Capt. Curtis Angst. Tech. Sgt. Tyler...
Mines in the Street: America’s Secret Weapon Against Iran’s Missiles
Share this story They looked like canned food, Iranian villagers said. Small cylindrical objects scattered across the streets and fields of Kafari, a village on the southern outskirts of Shiraz. Within hours, Bellingcat had identified them: BLU-91/B scatterable...
Missile in the Mirror: A Super Hornet Escapes Iran
Share this story The video is grainy, shot from the ground near Chabahar — a port city on Iran’s remote eastern coast. A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet screams low overhead, its 20mm cannon blazing. Then a streak of smoke rises from below. The aircraft breaks...
A Rifle, a Propeller Trainer, and a Kill: Ukraine’s Yak-52 Shoots Down Russian Geran Drone
Share this story On March 24, 2026, a video emerged from Ukraine that stopped aviation watchers in their tracks. A Soviet-era piston trainer, the Yak-52 — designed in the 1970s to teach student pilots basic aerobatics — had just downed a Russian Geran-2 kamikaze drone...
Gaining Air Superiority Over Iran vs. Ukraine
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...
Japan’s EC-2 Electronic Warfare Jet — Nicknamed the ‘Platypus’ — Takes Its First Flight
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...
B-52 Spotted Testing America’s Next Nuclear Cruise Missile — The AGM-181 LRSO
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...
Mystery in the Sky: RQ-180 Stealth Drone Photographed Over Greece
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...
Half a Plane, Whole Crew: The True Story of WWII’s B-17 “All American”
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...
Closest Look Yet: F-22 Raptor Flies with Stealth Tanks and IRST Sensor Pods
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...
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