Share this story On the morning of 6 August 2026, somewhere in the scrub outside Tan-Tan on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, a fat orange object with stubby wings and a jet engine bolted under its belly rolled forward, lit a rocket booster, and climbed away into a bruised...
Share this story Two accounts of the same night at the same air base went public within a day of each other this week. They do not agree. The first came from US officials speaking on condition of anonymity to CBS News, to Reuters and to Air & Space Forces...
Share this story For thirty-odd years, the Oregon Air National Guard had exactly one job: shoot down the other guy. Its F-15 C-models were pure air-superiority machines, and the wing was very good at it. Bombing was somebody else’s problem. On 27 August 2026, an...
Share this story You can learn a surprising amount about a secret aeroplane from the buildings people put up for it. On 10 September 2026, the US Army Corps of Engineers awarded Conti Federal Services a $74.8 million contract to build a radio frequency and...
Share this story A ramjet has no moving parts and no way of starting itself. It works by ramming air into a duct so fast that the compression alone is enough to burn fuel usefully, which means that at zero knots on a runway it is an expensively shaped tube of nothing....
Share this story For seven months of this war, the pattern at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base has been the same. Iran fires. Patriots answer. Jordan and CENTCOM announce that the interception rate was high, the base is operational, and everyone is fine. Tehran claims...
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 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 US Central Command struck five Iranian crude oil carriers on Tuesday 8 September 2026 and sank at least one of them, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tried twice in two days to hit a US Navy warship with ballistic missiles. Iran answered...
Share this story In April 1944 a Japanese submarine left Lorient carrying the plans for the most advanced interceptor in the world. It reached Singapore on 14 July. Twelve days later, on its way home, USS Sawfish sank it off the Philippines. A second boat carrying the...
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...
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