Share this story Ten years ago, Swiss International Air Lines bet its short-haul future on a brand-new Canadian jet. On Tuesday, 3 November 2026, it confirmed that the romance is over. Presenting third-quarter results, chief financial officer Dennis Weber said SWISS...
Share this story Germany wants to put a laser weapon on an aircraft. On Monday, 2 November 2026, MBDA Deutschland announced that the Bundeswehr’s procurement agency, BAAINBw, has contracted it to build an airborne laser demonstrator: a pod that could one day let...
Share this story No runway. No cockpit. No landing gear. Shield AI has finally pulled the covers off the real thing: X-BAT 001, the first full-scale prototype of the jet-powered, tail-sitting combat drone the Texas company has been promising since it unveiled the...
Share this story For 55 years, the helicopter that answers the phone in a Washington crisis has had two rotor blades and a whup-whup-whup that Washingtonians know by heart. On Monday 2 November 2026, its replacement finally showed up for work. A grey HH-60W Jolly...
Share this story Somewhere over Bosnia and Herzegovina on the morning of Monday 2 November, the crew of Wizz Air flight W6 4302 learned that someone claimed there was a bomb on board. They were carrying passengers from London Luton to Sofia. Within minutes they had...
Share this story A Saab Gripen E has flown beyond-visual-range combat scenarios with an artificial intelligence in control. Not a partner’s AI this time, but software Saab wrote, trained and tested entirely by itself. On Tuesday 3 November 2026, Saab lifted the...
Share this story On the morning of 31 October 2026, Lockheed Martin posted a nine-second video on social media from its Skunk Works advanced development division. It shows an eye in the dark and ends with the Skunk Works skunk and a single line: “You can’t...
Share this story Athens signed the paperwork on Monday, and with it the Hellenic Air Force finally got an answer to a question it had been dodging for most of a decade: what replaces the Hercules? The answer is Brazilian, routed through Lisbon. Greece has ordered...
Share this story At around 8.20pm on Friday 30 October 2026, States of Jersey Police took the first call: drones in the restricted airspace over Jersey Airport. The reports kept coming for more than two hours. By the time they stopped, three airliners bound for the...
Share this story The jet that taxied in at Islamabad International Airport on Sunday 1 November 2026 said NORSE in big blue letters down its side. Its passengers, though, had booked with Pakistan International Airlines, and the flight number on the departure boards at...
Share this story Before he said a word about fighters, Ashutosh Dixit did something no briefing note asked of him. On the morning of Sunday 1 November 2026, the new head of the Indian Air Force laid a wreath at the National War Memorial in New Delhi, then turned to...
Share this story For years, the most capable surveillance drone in the Royal Air Force was not allowed to fly over Britain at all. In October, its successor spent more than ten hours over the English Channel, watching a Russian warship sail past the south coast. Late...
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