Share this story The problem with the FPV attack drone — the weapon that has defined three years of fighting in Ukraine — is that it needs a pilot. Not a technician, a pilot: somebody who can fly a fast, twitchy quadcopter into a moving target through a...
Share this story On Monday morning a white and red turboprop lifted off from Buochs, the airfield tucked under the mountains next to Pilatus’s factory in Stans, and flew a first sortie over central Switzerland. It carried the Swiss test registration HB-HCA and...
Share this story In 1975, Switzerland moved a Convair 990 Coronado from Zurich to Lucerne. It took barges, closed roads and a considerable amount of nerve, and the whole country watched. Half a century later, they are seriously proposing to do it again — with...
Share this story Russia brought its new stealth weapons to a sand-coloured airfield on the Egyptian coast this week and, for the first time, let people photograph them. At the El Alamein International Airshow, sitting on the apron in front of a Su-57 Felon, were three...
Share this story The number that matters is 47. That is how many fighters the United States Air Force is short of the minimum Congress wrote into law — not an aspiration, not a target, a statutory floor. And the service has been below it since at least May. The...
Share this story Donald Trump does not usually take an interest in the business jet market. On Monday he did, in capital letters, on his own social network, and by Tuesday afternoon Bombardier’s share price had taken a seven per cent hit and a Republican senator from...
Share this story On Tuesday afternoon, four people sat down in front of the Swiss press in Bern and said the thing that everybody in the country had suspected for two years but nobody in government would confirm. There was never a fixed price for the F-35. The report...
Share this story US Central Command struck five Iranian crude oil carriers on Tuesday 8 September 2026 and sank at least one of them, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tried twice in two days to hit a US Navy warship with ballistic missiles. Iran answered...
Share this story For four years the Swiss government told parliament and the public the same thing about its F-35A order: the price was fixed. On Tuesday 8 September 2026 the National Council’s Control Committee published a 95-page report saying that no blanket...
Share this story There is an airline that flies the Atlantic with no economy cabin at all. No premium economy either. Seventy-six seats, all of them business, all of them lying flat. La Compagnie has been doing this since 2014, mostly out of Paris, and on Monday it...
Share this story Two Queensland companies signed an agreement at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday that, on paper, is unremarkable: a rocket firm and a scramjet firm agreeing to work together. What they are actually proposing is a business almost nobody offers....
Share this story Rosoboronexport says the Su-57 has proven itself in combat, that new export contracts for the Su-57E have been signed, and that deliveries begin this year. It will not say who signed them. Or for how many aircraft. Or for how much. The claim was made...
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