Share this story In commercial aviation, the customer almost never fires the airline. Shippers and carriers are bound together by long contracts, aircraft leases, crew bases and slot allocations, and the whole arrangement is built to survive bad weeks. Investigations...
Share this story For decades the American position on weapons in orbit was a careful non-answer. Officials talked about resilience, about protecting assets, about counter-space capability in the abstract. Nobody said the United States had put weapons up there. On...
Share this story The United States bought 337 MQ-9 Reapers over the nineteen-year life of the programme. After the fighting with Iran, the Air Force has roughly 135 left, against a floor it says should be 189. That is the arithmetic behind everything that happened on...
Share this story airBaltic does not fly to the United States. It never has. Its aircraft are Canadian-built, its shareholders are Latvian and German, its passengers are overwhelmingly European, and its longest route tops out somewhere around the Gulf. On Monday it...
Share this story The model on the show floor at National Harbor is 34 feet long and you can walk all the way around it. There is no cockpit, no canopy, no windscreen, nothing for a human head to sit behind. What there is, on top of the fuselage where an intake has no...
Share this story When the backseater known as Dude 44 Bravo broke his silence on 60 Minutes, most of the coverage went to what he said. The more durable part of the broadcast was what it showed. Alongside the interview, CBS aired video of both rescues that had not...
Share this story Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, NATO fighter aircraft shot down an unidentified drone in Lithuanian airspace. It came down near the village of Pratkūnai, in Kaunas County in the centre of the country. The Lithuanian authorities logged the...
Share this story A Russian jet-powered drone struck the engine of a train at Yahodyn on Monday morning, about two kilometres from the Polish border. Nobody was killed. The passengers had been ordered off fifteen minutes earlier, which is now a routine Ukrainian...
Share this story The people of the Haslital have been asking a reasonable question since 2022: what will an F-35 actually sound like when it takes off from the valley they live in? The Swiss Air Force and armasuisse agreed to answer it the sensible way, by flying an...
Share this story At 18:51 on the evening of 8 September, a Boeing 737-8 registered YR-BGO touched down at Henri Coandă in Bucharest, having flown in directly from the United States. It is the first 737 MAX Tarom has ever operated, and the first in Romania. Boeing,...
Share this story Geostationary orbit is 36,000 km up, which is far enough that the satellites parked there appear not to move at all. It is where the most valuable military hardware in space lives: communications relays, missile-warning satellites, intelligence...
Share this story Ukraine spent two years building the one capability that reaches deep into Russia and actually hurts. On Sunday, the President of the United States asked it to stop using that capability on the target it works best against. Speaking to reporters at...
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