Share this story Before dawn on 14 June, two Royal Air Force Chinook helicopters thundered low over the English Channel toward a 244-metre oil tanker flying the flag of Cameroon. Hanging beneath them, silhouetted against the first grey light, were Royal Marines from...
Share this story For more than six decades, every fighter jet in the Algerian Air Force has come from one country: Russia. MiG-21s, MiG-25s, Su-30MKAs, MiG-29s — the entire combat fleet reads like a catalogue of Soviet and Russian design bureaux. That era is about to...
Share this story The West gave Ukraine its best single-engine fighter. Then Ukraine’s pilots threw away the instruction manual. Since the first F-16 Fighting Falcons arrived in Ukrainian skies in August 2024, the pilots who fly them have compiled a combat record...
Als am 24. Juni zwei Erdbeben den Norden Venezuelas erschütterten – ein Vorbeben der Stärke 7,2, gefolgt 39 Sekunden später von einem verheerenden Hauptbeben der Stärke 7,5 – brach die fragile Infrastruktur des Landes innerhalb von Minuten zusammen. In Caracas wurden Gebäude in sich zusammengestürzt.
Share this story Edwards Air Force Base is flying again. The question everyone at the desert test centre is still asking is why it had to stop. On 15 June, B-52H tail number 60-0061 — call sign Torch 11 — crashed moments after takeoff from Edwards, killing all eight...
Die Islamischen Revolutionsgarden griffen am Sonntag amerikanische Militäreinrichtungen im Persischen Golf an und setzten ballistische Raketen und bewaffnete Drohnen gegen Stützpunkte in Kuwait und Bahrain ein. Teheran bezeichnete dies als direkte Reaktion auf US-Angriffe auf iranische Ziele in der Nähe von...
Share this story Fifteen warplanes. Two nuclear powers. One very pointed message. On 27 June, Russia and China flew their largest joint strategic bomber patrol to date — a six-hour formation sweep through the Sea of Japan, East China Sea, and into the western Pacific....
Die US-Luftwaffe hat stillschweigend eine der ambitioniertesten Waffenanforderungen der jüngeren Vergangenheit fallen gelassen: die Entwicklung einer neuen Luft-Luft-Rakete, die Ziele in einer Entfernung von mindestens 1.000 Seemeilen – umgerechnet etwa 1.150 Meilen – bekämpfen kann. Das entspricht ungefähr zehn...
Share this story NATO just put a bounty on Russian airfields — and the price tag is surprisingly modest. Allied Command Transformation and the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre have launched “Persistent Airfield Denial,” an...
Share this story Two hundred miles from the nearest NATO border, Serbia is building an air defence network that Beijing designed and no Western alliance approved. On 28 June, President Aleksandar Vucic confirmed what defence analysts had suspected for months: Belgrade...
Share this story The future of air combat just landed on a tiny Pacific island. Boeing’s MQ-28A Ghost Bat — the autonomous combat drone that could change everything about how wars are fought in the air — touched down at a remote airfield on Rota in the Northern...
Share this story Every aircraft you have ever seen in the sky was first tested in a room where nothing flies at all. Wind tunnels are, conceptually, the simplest tools in aerospace engineering: take a tube, put air in one end, put a model in the middle, and measure...
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