Share this story A single photograph, and the internet decided China had built a mirror. Over the weekend of Aug. 19, 2026, fresh images of a PLA Navy J-35 carrier fighter in flight rocketed around military-watcher circles. Instead of the usual matte grey, the...
Share this story At 10,000 metres somewhere between Frankfurt and Rome, Jens Ritter reached up and switched on the internet. The gesture, aboard an Airbus A320neo named “November Mike,” marked the first Lufthansa passenger flight flying with Wi-Fi powered...
Share this story It is one thing to bring a fighter home in one piece. It is another to bring it home facing the wrong way. On the morning of Aug. 18, 2026, a Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-15J Eagle touched down on Runway 36L at Naha Airport, on the island of...
Share this story Somewhere over Ukraine tonight, a lawnmower engine bolted to a warhead is droning toward a city. It is called a Shahed-136, Russia stamps out its own copies as the Geran-2, and it costs somewhere between twenty and fifty thousand dollars. The problem...
Share this story The number barely moved, and that is precisely the point. France booked €21.24 billion in new arms-export orders in 2025, its Ministry of the Armed Forces told Parliament in the annual report published on 13 August. A shade below 2024’s...
Share this story India’s fighter problem used to be a problem you could count. Dozens of finished Tejas Mk1A airframes have sat on Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) lines in Nashik and Bengaluru, waiting on a single missing part, the General Electric...
Share this story Every drone story from NATO’s eastern flank this summer has ended the same way: something falls out of the sky. On 20 August 2026, Romania rewrote the script. This time the target was not overhead. It was in the water, drifting toward a gas...
Share this story There is a particular elegance to watching a country refuse to choose sides. For half a century Egypt bought its wings where the politics of the moment allowed, Soviet MiGs, then American Falcons, then French Rafales, always a client, never a builder....
Share this story There is a quiet satisfaction, for anyone raised on the sight of the delta-winged chasse française, in watching the Rafale finally take its place in the fight it was arguably designed for. France’s most senior voices are no longer...
Share this story A month ago, Donald Trump stood next to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara and all but handed Turkey the keys to the F-35. Sanctions? Gone, he suggested. The stealth jet Ankara was thrown out of buying? Back on the table. It was the kind of moment...
Share this story Five days. That is how long Ulchi Freedom Shield lasted before somebody pulled the plug. The largest combined military exercise on the Korean Peninsula was built to run eleven, 17 August through 27. Instead the United States and South Korea are...
Share this story The most consequential upgrade the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye has ever received will not change how the aircraft looks. No new wing, no new rotodome, no obvious external clue. What changes sits behind the fuselage skin: the computers, the software, the...
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