Share this story Somewhere over the Mojave in the first week of November, a bomber that officially does not have a published wingspan opened its bay and let something fall out of it. Nobody filmed it. Nobody has said what it was. The U.S. Air Force waited a week, then...
Share this story For the 1957 show season, the Blue Angels rolled out something new: a small, sleek Grumman jet with a pinched waist and a needle nose that could go supersonic. The jet was the Grumman F11F Tiger. As a fleet fighter it was a disappointment, gone from...
Share this story The pilot is sitting in an air-conditioned box in the Nevada desert. The aircraft is thousands of miles away, circling over a different continent at 20,000 feet. When the pilot moves the stick, the MQ-9 Reaper answers, but only after the command has...
Share this story Hermeus has spent the last few years proving it can build fast drones quickly. On Thursday 12 November 2026, one of America’s biggest defence primes signed up to help turn them into weapons systems. Hermeus and Northrop Grumman announced a...
Share this story Four small blue-and-white aircraft pulled smoke trails across the Colorado sky on Thursday 12 November 2026, as the Cadet Wing stood in its noon meal formation at the US Air Force Academy. Each of them carried a brand-new designation: T-19A Kestrel....
Share this story A wounded soldier at a dirt strip hundreds of kilometres from a surgeon. No helicopter in range, no crew to spare, and the radio link to headquarters patchy at best. U.S. Africa Command wants to know whether a single-engine utility aircraft can fly...
Share this story In June 1963 a group of US Marine Corps F-8 Crusaders of the all-weather fighter squadron VMF(AW)-323 left El Toro, California, on a “Trans-Pac”: a ferry flight across the Pacific to Hawaii, then on via Midway and Wake to Atsugi in Japan....
Share this story Drive up to the main gate of almost any American military base and, somewhere near the guard post, there is a sign carrying a single word. Most days, at most bases, that word is BRAVO. According to The Wall Street Journal, at RAF Lakenheath and RAF...
Share this story The fuel truck rolling up to the line of F-22 Raptors at Tsuiki Air Base in late October was Army green, and so were the people driving it. During exercise Keen Sword 27, petroleum specialists from the US Army’s 593rd Corps Sustainment Command...
Share this story The US Air Force wants to hang nets around the parking spots of its newest fighters. A sources-sought notice posted on SAM.gov on 6 November 2026 asks industry how to wrap six existing aircraft sunshades at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, in...
Share this story The US Air Force will not say why. On Monday afternoon a US official confirmed to The War Zone that enhanced force protection measures were in effect across RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall, the two US Air Force bases in Suffolk. The same official...
Share this story The US Air Force wants to know something very specific about Electra’s nine-seat hybrid-electric transport: how quietly can it sneak in? On Monday 9 November 2026, Electra Defense announced a $4.7 million contract from the Air Force Research...
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