Share this story Japan is 6,800 islands long. Defending that coastline with crewed fighters means either an air force it cannot afford or gaps it cannot accept. Which is why Tokyo is now designing a coastal defence concept built around uncrewed aircraft — and...
Share this story At 15:55 this afternoon, a Boeing 787-9 in a deep indigo livery touched down at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, and an hour and a half later it went back the way it came. Flight RX0873 from Riyadh, inbound. RX0874 to Riyadh, outbound. Every day...
Share this story The NH90 has one of the worst reputations in modern military aviation. Australia binned its 46 of them a decade early. Norway walked away. Sweden is phasing its out by 2027. Belgium and Finland are not fans. The type has become shorthand for a...
Share this story It looks like a rifle, weighs less than five pounds, and you can teach somebody to work it in under five minutes. Pacific Air Forces wants sixty of them. It does not, at present, have the money to pay for them. On 8 September 2026, PACAF’s 18th...
Share this story In November 2024, the United States sent two B-52H bombers to fly over the Bahrain International Airshow. One of them then parked on the static display, the first time a B-52 had done so at Sakhir. Nobody pretended it was a routine appearance. It was...
Share this story The problem with the FPV attack drone — the weapon that has defined three years of fighting in Ukraine — is that it needs a pilot. Not a technician, a pilot: somebody who can fly a fast, twitchy quadcopter into a moving target through a...
Share this story On Monday morning a white and red turboprop lifted off from Buochs, the airfield tucked under the mountains next to Pilatus’s factory in Stans, and flew a first sortie over central Switzerland. It carried the Swiss test registration HB-HCA and...
Share this story In 1975, Switzerland moved a Convair 990 Coronado from Zurich to Lucerne. It took barges, closed roads and a considerable amount of nerve, and the whole country watched. Half a century later, they are seriously proposing to do it again — with...
Share this story Russia brought its new stealth weapons to a sand-coloured airfield on the Egyptian coast this week and, for the first time, let people photograph them. At the El Alamein International Airshow, sitting on the apron in front of a Su-57 Felon, were three...
Share this story The number that matters is 47. That is how many fighters the United States Air Force is short of the minimum Congress wrote into law — not an aspiration, not a target, a statutory floor. And the service has been below it since at least May. The...
Share this story Donald Trump does not usually take an interest in the business jet market. On Monday he did, in capital letters, on his own social network, and by Tuesday afternoon Bombardier’s share price had taken a seven per cent hit and a Republican senator from...
Share this story On Tuesday afternoon, four people sat down in front of the Swiss press in Bern and said the thing that everybody in the country had suspected for two years but nobody in government would confirm. There was never a fixed price for the F-35. The report...
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