It began life as a Canadian underdog. Bombardier’s CSeries was the aircraft that wasn’t supposed to survive — a small, clean-sheet design from a company that had never built anything bigger than a regional jet, taking on Boeing and Airbus on their home turf....
At 8:07 PM Eastern Time on April 10, 2026, a blackened capsule trailing a wake of superheated plasma punched through Earth’s atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour and splashed into the Pacific Ocean forty miles off the coast of San Diego. Inside were four people who had...
The man who will shape the next generation of Air Force officers has 2,500 flight hours, 300 of them in combat, and has flown two of America’s most formidable fighters: the F-15C Eagle and the F-22 Raptor. Col. Brandon J. Tellez, a 2001 Air Force Academy graduate and...
Thirty-nine aircraft. More than 13,000 sorties. Five weeks of sustained air combat over and around Iran. The War Zone has published a comprehensive, open-source tracking of every US aircraft confirmed lost or damaged during Operation Epic Fury — and the numbers tell a...
In February 2026, a C-17 Globemaster III lifted a nuclear reactor off the tarmac at March Air Reserve Base in California and flew it to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The reactor, built by Valar Atomics, was small enough to fit inside a standard cargo bay. It was the...
A photograph taken at Pearl Harbor on March 29 showed something unusual on the aft deck of the USS Carl M. Levin (DDG-120): a launcher that nobody outside the Navy could immediately identify. Mounted between the destroyer’s port-side torpedo tubes and its rear Mk 41...
In late 2024, a group of engineers, venture capitalists, and a former British defence secretary founded a company in Cambridge with a single goal: build a weapon that could kill a Shahed drone for roughly the same price as the drone itself. Fourteen months later, that...
The next generation of Portuguese military pilots will learn to fly in an aircraft that weighs less than a family car. On April 9, 2026, Tecnam and Spanish aviation services provider World Aviation announced that the Portuguese Air Force has selected the Tecnam...
The video opens with a clip of an esports tournament. Screens glow. Controllers click. A crowd roars. Then the camera cuts to an air traffic control tower, and a voice asks the question the Federal Aviation Administration hopes will change American aviation forever:...
For forty days, the skies over Iraq were empty. No airliners cruised overhead at 35,000 feet. No cargo planes descended into Baghdad International. No transit fees were collected, no passengers moved, no overflights logged. From late February to April 8, 2026, one of...
On April 3, 2026, an F-15E Strike Eagle with the callsign Dude 44 was hit by a shoulder-fired missile over Iran’s Zagros Mountains. Both crew members ejected. The pilot was recovered within hours. The weapons systems officer — a colonel — was not. He landed on a...
On April 8, 2026, two French Air and Space Force Rafale B fighters roared off the runway at Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, afterburners slicing through the cold Baltic morning. This was not a training exercise. A NATO Alpha Scramble — the real thing — had been...
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