Share this story A launch rail is a humble thing: a length of metal angled at the sky. Build fifty-nine of them along your western frontier, and you have something else entirely — a machine for reaching deep into a nervous continent. That is the picture drawn by...
Share this story Hours before American and South Korean troops were due to kick off one of the year’s biggest military exercises, President Donald Trump told the Pentagon to shrink it — and named two reasons that had nothing to do with the Korean...
Share this story Last week we told you that America had lost roughly a quarter of its MQ-9 Reaper fleet in the war with Iran. That eye-watering number — around 45 drones, more than $1.3 billion — turned out to be a single line in a much longer invoice....
Share this story Russian state television has aired footage of a new strike drone called the BM-35, and the numbers attached to it are eye-catching: a jet engine, a top speed of more than 350 km/h, and a claim that Ukrainian interceptors simply cannot catch it. As...
Share this story Overnight into 16 August, a large wave of Ukrainian drones flew toward the Moscow and Rostov regions, setting warehouses alight and, according to Russian officials, causing several casualties. It was, by the account of the Moscow regional governor,...
Share this story A bystander in Wichita, Kansas points a phone at the sky. A large, grey, tailless shape slides overhead near McConnell Air Force Base. The footage is shaky, the shape is unmistakable-but-not-quite — and within hours the internet has decided it...
Share this story Five months after two Iranian bombers were blown out of the sky short of a US air base in Qatar, a strange and very human question has resurfaced: what happened to the men who were flying them? On 15 August, Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff...
Share this story Aircraft carriers are the ultimate way for a navy to say “we are here.” So when two of them quietly swap ends of the same sea in the same week, it is worth paying attention. That is what happened in mid-August. As the American carrier USS...
Share this story On a sun-baked runway in north-eastern Thailand, two very different ideas of a modern fighter are parked wingtip to wingtip. On one side, China’s J-10C — the same delta-winged jet that Pakistan says it flew against Indian Rafales in 2025....
Share this story For the crowd gathered at Old Warden on the evening of 15 August, it was meant to be the gentlest of spectacles: vintage aeroplanes flying to a live orchestra as the light softened, the Shuttleworth Collection’s famous “Flying...
Share this story In the small hours of 15 August, air-raid sirens climbed over Russia’s Samara region. Minutes later, residents nearly 900 kilometres from the Ukrainian border were filming a wall of orange fire rising above an industrial district — the...
Share this story The world’s most powerful army just decided its next combat pilots will learn to fly on a helicopter you could, in principle, buy off a dealer’s lot. On August 13, the U.S. Army picked M1 Support Services and its partner Robinson...
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