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...
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...
South Korea Rolls Out First Mass-Production KF-21 Boramae Fighter Jet
Share this story South Korea reached a landmark milestone on March 25, 2026, when the first series-production KF-21 Boramae fighter jet rolled out of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) factory in Sacheon under its own power — marking the birth of a new chapter in...
Friendly Fire Over Kuwait: Three U.S. F-15Es Shot Down as Middle East War Explodes
Share this story MiGFlug Aviation & Defence Monday, 02 March 2026 · Developing Story Breaking — Operation Epic Fury · Day 3 Three U.S. F-15Es Shot Down in Friendly Fire Over Kuwait — as the Middle East Erupts Six American airmen ejected into the Kuwaiti night...
296 F-35s: The Biggest Stealth Buy Yet
Share this story Two signatures. 296 stealth fighters. $24.3 billion. In a single deal, the F-35 program locked in the largest batch of Lightning IIs it has ever agreed to build at once. The contract covers Lots 18 and 19 — production runs split evenly at 148 jets...
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