Share this story The future carrier air wing will not be all pilots. The U.S. Navy is pressing ahead on a carrier-based “loyal wingman” — an uncrewed combat aircraft built to fly alongside crewed fighters, carry sensors and weapons, and go first into...
Share this story The Marine general who runs the F-35 program walked into a Senate hearing this week and said the quiet part out loud: the most expensive weapons program in history has outgrown the system built to keep it flying.It landed weeks after a Government...
Share this story On 24 June 2026, the U.S. government signed one of the largest missile-defense checks in its history and handed it to a single company for a single job: build interceptors, and build them faster than America has ever built them before. The award to...
Kein anderes Jet-Trainingsflugzeug der Welt hat einen längeren Schatten als die Aero L-39 Albatros. Mehr als 3.000 Exemplare wurden gebaut. Sie wird von über 30 Luftwaffen auf fünf Kontinenten geflogen. Zwei Jahrzehnte lang war sie das Rückgrat der Pilotenausbildung des Warschauer Pakts und ist auch 2026 noch das Flugzeug, das...
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....
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 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 Two-star generals do not usually gang up on Congress. This spring, twenty-two of them did. In a single letter to the House and Senate appropriators, every adjutant general who commands an Air National Guard fighter unit signed the same blunt verdict:...
Share this story Somewhere over Poltava Oblast, in the dark hours before dawn on 27 June, a Ukrainian MiG-29 simply went quiet. One moment the fighter was flying a combat mission; the next, contact was gone. The jet did not come home. This is the part of the war that...
Share this story The most expensive fighter program in history just handed the U.S. Marine Corps six brand-new stealth jets that cannot see. In place of their radar, each F-35B carries a chunk of dead weight bolted into the nose to keep the jet balanced. The Marines...
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