Share this story Most airlines mark an anniversary with a commemorative decal near the boarding door and a press release nobody reads. All Nippon Airways paints cartoon monsters across an entire Boeing 787 and sends it to another continent. On Monday, ANA confirmed...
Share this story On 10 August, Ukrainian drones hit the Taneco refinery at Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan, 1,200 kilometres from Ukraine. We covered it in Ukraine Hits Russia’s Deepest Refinery Yet. Ten days later they went back and hit it again. That is the part...
Share this story In April, the Chief of Naval Operations said the Navy would name the winner of the F/A-XX competition in August. The Defense Secretary said August. The Acting Navy Secretary said August. There is now one week of August left, and no announcement. We...
Share this story The first generation of America’s robot fighters is already being built. The second generation is still an argument about engines. Speaking at the Air Force’s Life Cycle Industry Days conference in Dayton, Ohio, senior acquisition...
Share this story A fighter has a fixed number of places to hang things. Wings, fuselage, wingtips. Every pylon you fill with a bomb is a pylon you cannot fill with fuel, a targeting pod, or a missile to defend yourself with. That arithmetic has constrained air...
Share this story America’s defence against an intercontinental ballistic missile aimed at its homeland currently rests on 44 interceptors: 40 buried in silos at Fort Greely, Alaska, and four at Vandenberg in California. The design dates to the early 2000s. The...
Share this story For years the U.S. Navy has had a problem it could not shoot its way out of. Its best long-range air-to-air missile, the AIM-174B Gunslinger, is a magnificent weapon that only the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet can carry, and only hanging off a wing where...
Share this story The first of Taiwan’s brand-new F-16V fighters are on their way home, and China’s state media wants everyone to know it is not impressed. Two single-seat F-16V Block 70s left the United States on 17 August 2026, routing through Fort Worth,...
Share this story Picture the pitch meeting. It is 1948, the jet age is barely out of diapers, and someone at the U.S. Navy stands up and says: what if the fighter took off from the ocean? No carrier. No runway. Just a supersonic delta-wing jet, water-skiing into the...
Share this story For the first time, China has flown one of its heavyweight fighters to Africa. A formation of Shenyang J-16 strike jets touched down at an Egyptian air base early on 21 August 2026, opening the second edition of the “Eagles of...
Share this story United Airlines is about to open a box it has been rattling for weeks. On Tuesday, 25 August 2026, the carrier plans to roll out its first Airbus A321XLR at a hangar event in Newark and, alongside the jet, announce a batch of new international routes...
Share this story When a magnitude-7.4 earthquake tore through western Colombia on Aug. 10, 2026, the American response arrived on four jet engines. Within days, U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transports were touching down in Bogotá and Medellín,...
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