For nearly two weeks starting February 27, 2026, something almost unprecedented happened in the Taiwan Strait: nothing. Chinese warplanes stayed home. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense logged zero PLAAF activity on 11 out of 13 consecutive days — including a...
Six names. That is what the U.S. Air Force released on March 14, 2026, two days after a KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in Iraq. Maj. John Klinner. Capt. Ariana Savino. Tech. Sgt. Ashley Pruitt. Capt. Seth Koval. Capt. Curtis Angst. Tech. Sgt. Tyler Simmons. Investigators...
They looked like canned food, Iranian villagers said. Small cylindrical objects scattered across the streets and fields of Kafari, a village on the southern outskirts of Shiraz. Within hours, Bellingcat had identified them: BLU-91/B scatterable anti-tank landmines,...
The video is grainy, shot from the ground near Chabahar — a port city on Iran’s remote eastern coast. A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet screams low overhead, its 20mm cannon blazing. Then a streak of smoke rises from below. The aircraft breaks hard left. The...
On March 24, 2026, a video emerged from Ukraine that stopped aviation watchers in their tracks. A Soviet-era piston trainer, the Yak-52 — designed in the 1970s to teach student pilots basic aerobatics — had just downed a Russian Geran-2 kamikaze drone using a rifle...
Why one was won in days and the other drags into year four Two ongoing conflicts. Two air forces attempting to dominate enemy skies. Two very different outcomes. The contrast between how Israel and the United States established air superiority over Iran — and how...
Japan’s newest and most unusual-looking military aircraft — the Kawasaki EC-2 stand-off jammer, nicknamed the “Platypus” for its ungainly but purpose-built shape — completed its maiden flight on March 17, 2026, lifting off from Gifu Air Base at 11:30...
A B-52H Stratofortress has been photographed in flight over California carrying two inert examples of the AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile — the nuclear-armed weapon system designed to replace the United States’ aging AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile...
What appears to be the United States’ most secretive unmanned aircraft — the classified Northrop Grumman RQ-180 — was photographed over the city of Larissa, Greece on March 18, 2026, providing what analysts are calling the clearest public imagery of the...
Aviation photographer Jarod Hamilton captured the sharpest images yet of an F-22A Raptor flying with both stealthy external fuel tanks and specialised sensor pods at Edwards Air Force Base on March 21, 2026 — providing the clearest look to date at a significant...
South Korea reached a landmark milestone on March 25, 2026, when the first series-production KF-21 Boramae fighter jet rolled out of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) factory in Sacheon under its own power — marking the birth of a new chapter in the nation’s...
MiGFlug Aviation & Defence Monday, 02 March 2026 · Developing Story Breaking — Operation Epic Fury · Day 3 Three U.S. F-15Es Shot Down in Friendly Fire Over Kuwait — as the Middle East Erupts Six American airmen ejected into the Kuwaiti night after their own...
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