Share this story Rosoboronexport says the Su-57 has proven itself in combat, that new export contracts for the Su-57E have been signed, and that deliveries begin this year. It will not say who signed them. Or for how many aircraft. Or for how much. The claim was made...
Share this story A Cessna 172 Skyhawk crashed and burned on a runway at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in San Diego on Monday evening. Two people on board were killed. San Diego police logged the crash at about 17:20 local time on 7 September. It was the Labor Day...
Share this story Since 25 August, a US Army laser has been burning cartel drones out of the sky over the Rio Grande Valley. Eleven of them in ten days. Each shot costs about three dollars. Military officials told CBS News that drone traffic in the sector has since...
Share this story The video is short, silent and shot from the nose of the drone. A hardened airfield apron slides into frame. Then an aircraft, parked, wings swept forward, with a large white 49 on the intake. Then the picture ends. Ukraine’s Defence...
Share this story Buried in Airbus’s monthly order tally, published Monday, is a line for eight A350F freighters. The deal was firmed on 31 August. The customer is not named. It takes firm orders for the aircraft to 115, and it lands about two weeks before the...
Share this story Among all the fifth-generation sales theatre at El Alamein this week, the most consequential thing on the ramp is a helicopter that first flew in 1961. Boeing has handed the Egyptian Air Force the first five of twelve CH-47F Chinooks, with the...
Share this story Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone gave the number and then did the arithmetic out loud, which is the part that lands. “Seven hundred takeoffs in two years,” NATO’s most senior military officer said at the Taranto Naval Base in southern...
Share this story On Sunday afternoon a Boeing 767 freighter came off the end of runway 30 at Miami International, crossed the ground beyond it, struck vehicles and burned. Five people on the ground were killed. Both pilots survived with injuries. Within a day the...
Share this story Two Russian Su-35S fighters collided in the air over Russia’s Kursk region on Sunday. One pilot was killed. The other ejected and was injured. That is the entire confirmed account, and even it is not confirmed in any official sense. The report...
Share this story The sun went down over the Egyptian Mediterranean coast on Friday evening and left a row of American warplanes in silhouette: a C-130 Hercules, an A-10 Thunderbolt II, an F-16 Fighting Falcon and an F-15E Strike Eagle, parked nose-on to the desert. A...
Share this story A US Air Force casualty assistance officer told the widow of a major killed in a KC-135 crash that certain combat-related benefits were not available to her family, because — in his words — the United States has not declared war. That is...
Share this story An Embraer 170 flew from Puget Sound to southern Alaska and back, four hours and twenty-three minutes, with GPS switched off the whole way. It navigated by reading the magnetic field of the rocks underneath it. This is being reported in several places...
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