850 F-35s Over Ten Years: Pentagon and Lockheed Sign Multiyear Framework
Share this story For twenty years the F-35 has been bought the way most people buy groceries: one lot at a time, haggling at the checkout. On Thursday, 22 October 2026, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin announced they want to switch to a subscription.The two sides...
How Does a Laser-Guided Bomb Work? Paveway Explained
Share this story For seven years the Thanh Hoa Bridge simply refused to fall. American aircraft flew more than 870 sorties against the “Dragon’s Jaw” south of Hanoi and lost 11 aircraft doing it. Then, in the spring of 1972, a handful of Phantom...
C-5 Galaxy Landing Gear Down at 22,000 Feet Over Slovakia
Share this story At 22,000 ft (about 6,700 m), landing gear is supposed to be folded away and forgotten. So when photographer Ján Kolárik pointed his lens at a US Air Force C-5 Galaxy crossing Slovakia, he caught something genuinely odd: one of the giant...
AIM-174B and AIM-260 Seen Together on a Navy Super Hornet
Share this story A grey Super Hornet over the Mojave, blue-banded test rounds under its wings, and a first for US naval aviation. On 14 October 2026, an aviation photographer caught a US Navy F/A-18F from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 31 over Ridgecrest,...
Frecce Tricolori M-346: First Jet Rolls Out at Venegono
Share this story For 44 years the Frecce Tricolori have painted the Italian sky from the cockpit of a single-engined Aermacchi. Last week, at Leonardo’s plant at Venegono, near Varese, their successor rolled into daylight: the first M-346 built for Italy’s...
Toulon Naval Base: Unauthorised Drones Trigger Investigation
Share this story For twelve days in October, the French military rehearsed exactly one scenario in the roadstead of Toulon: how to protect France’s largest naval base. Somewhere in the middle of that rehearsal, someone else’s drones came to watch. On...
USAF Fighter Fleet: Air Force Wants 1,509 Combat Jets by 2035
Share this story The U.S. Air Force has put a number on what it needs to fight: 1,509 combat-coded fighters by 2035. That is the headline of a new fighter force structure report the service sent to Congress on 16 October 2026, and it is a lot more jets than the USAF...
Su-30 Crash in Kaliningrad: Both Crew Eject on Training Flight
Share this story A two-seat Flanker down in a field, two pilots on the end of parachutes, and an empty patch of countryside in Russia’s Baltic exclave. On 21 October 2026, a Russian Su-30 crashed during a scheduled training flight in the Kaliningrad region. Both...
Wings Over Ganges: IAF Flies 100 Aircraft Over Varanasi
Share this story The steps of Namo Ghat were packed before the first engine noise rolled down the river. On Thursday 22 October 2026, thousands of spectators lined the Ganga from Namo Ghat to Assi Ghat as the Indian Air Force opened “Wings Over Ganges”...
Rafale F5: France and the UAE Sign Intergovernmental Agreement
Share this story Abu Dhabi, Tuesday 20 October 2026. Between a tour of Edge Group factories and a round of energy deals, France and the United Arab Emirates signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation on the Rafale F5 standard — the next great leap of...
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