Share this story Ukraine mounted one of its deepest strikes of the summer overnight on 22 August 2026, sending long-range drones more than 1,000 kilometres into Russia’s Samara region. By morning two sites were burning: the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, part of...
Share this story Bulgaria has spent years trying to drag its air force into the NATO era, and it has just been handed some unwelcome news. The second batch of eight brand-new F-16 Block 70 fighters, once promised by the end of 2027, may not arrive until 2030. Lockheed...
Share this story When a magnitude-7.4 earthquake tore through western Colombia on Aug. 10, 2026, the American response arrived on four jet engines. Within days, U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transports were touching down in Bogotá and Medellín,...
Share this story As choking smoke spreads over Borneo, Indonesia is fighting fire with the weather itself. On Aug. 21, 2026, five more Indonesian Air Force aircraft lifted off from Abdulrachman Saleh Air Base in Malang, bound for the burning provinces of West and East...
Share this story The U.S. Air Force plans to buy 38 F-35 stealth fighters next year. Its most influential advocacy group says that is nowhere near enough, and that the real number should be at least 60, every single year. In a letter to Congressional leaders this...
Share this story The world’s biggest passenger jet is about to make a lot of surprise appearances, and a lot of surprise disappearances. This September, Emirates is reshuffling a dozen of its Airbus A380 routes, with several long-haul services temporarily...
Share this story On Aug. 18, 2026, off the Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japanese fighter pilots were sent up to shadow an unusual pair drifting across the East China Sea. One was a Chinese Y-9 electronic-warfare aircraft. The other had no one aboard at all: a...
Share this story On Aug. 21, 2026, at Malmen Air Base in Sweden, Saab chose the Swedish Air Force’s 100th birthday to pull the cover off its vision of the next one hundred years. Standing on the floor was a full-scale mock-up of a tailless, stealthy, supersonic...
Share this story Qatar is about to stop borrowing other people’s gas stations. On Aug. 20, 2026, the US State Department signed off on a possible $4.5 billion sale of four Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tankers to the Qatar Emiri Air Force, a deal that would let the...
Share this story For the first time, one of the smallest and cheapest fighters in Europe has reached far beyond the horizon. On Aug. 21, 2026, a Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen C released a live Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missile over the Vidsel Test Range in Norrbotten,...
Share this story Breaking — The US Navy is internally weighing whether to rename the future aircraft carrier CVN-81, currently designated the future USS Doris Miller, and could potentially name it after President Donald Trump, CNN reported on 20 August 2026 in an...
Share this story There is a particular kind of turbulence that never shows on the weather radar, and Norse Atlantic Airways flew straight into it this month. The Norwegian long-haul low-cost carrier used its second-quarter results, published on 20 August 2026, to...
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