Share this story Somewhere inside US Central Command’s area of operations on Sunday, ordnance crews were doing the job that makes a war real: lifting live weapons onto aeroplanes. Then the word came down to stop. President Donald Trump called off a planned...
Share this story A hundred nautical miles north of Dutch Harbor is not anywhere. It is grey water, weather that arrives sideways, and the shortest line between the Aleutians and the Russian Far East. This week it has an American and Canadian task force in it, and...
Share this story Captain Daniel Arsenault was running a morning charter out of Pensacola on Saturday when he spotted something floating offshore. He went over for a look, the way you do. Underneath it was a good-size mahi-mahi, which went straight into a cooler...
Share this story Kapotnya sits nine miles from the Kremlin. It is not a military district. It is chimneys and pipework and a wall of apartment blocks pressed right up against the fence, and on the night of 19 September it was lit from below by its own fires. By Sunday...
Share this story On 18 August 2026 a single A-10C Thunderbolt II took off from Nellis Air Force Base, flew a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range, and landed. Nothing about the sortie was unusual except everything about it. The aircraft was...
Share this story Delta has not flown to Monterey since 2008. From 19 December it will fly there twice a day from Los Angeles and once a day from Salt Lake City. The airline announced three new domestic routes on Friday, two of them serving a small coastal California...
Share this story Most reconnaissance satellites sit in one orbit and photograph the ground. The two the Pentagon just ordered are designed to move, and to photograph each other’s neighbours. On 18 September the Defense Innovation Unit announced that Northrop...
Share this story Defence conferences usually produce communiqués. This one produced a shopping list. NATO’s 32 chiefs of defence met in Copenhagen on 18 and 19 September for the alliance’s annual Military Committee Conference, and the message they...
Share this story On Friday evening at the Langham Hotel in London, Singapore Airlines was named the World’s Best Airline for the sixth time in the history of the Skytrax World Airline Awards. Qatar Airways, last year’s winner and a nine-time holder of the...
Share this story The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk first flew in 1974. The company has been building them for the US Army since 1978. On Friday, Connecticut’s congressional delegation announced that the line at Stratford will keep running for another two years at...
Share this story At midnight on Friday, Singapore’s airfield map changed. A 3,660-metre runway that had been quietly under construction on the eastern edge of Changi became operational, and it belongs to the air force. Runway 03/21 at Changi Air Base (East) went...
Share this story Every airshow demonstration you have ever watched was flown to a script written at sea level and then adjusted. At Colorado Springs this weekend, the adjustment is large. The Pikes Peak Regional Airshow is running today, the second of two days at...
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