Share this story The light was already going on Thursday afternoon when a twin-rotor shape lifted away from the airfield at Brčko, in the flat farmland where Bosnia and Herzegovina runs up against the river Sava. Phone cameras on the ground caught what happened...
Share this story In 2003, a US Air Force test pilot named Troy Asher flew a B-1B bomber to a string of world speed records. Twenty-five of them, according to NASA. On Thursday, 29 October 2026, NASA put the same pilot in charge of the place where America flies its...
Share this story Days after it was wheeled out of the factory, the first jet built for Italy’s new-generation Frecce Tricolori has left the ground. The M-346 in the team’s new Pininfarina livery made its maiden flight from Leonardo’s airfield at...
Share this story After months of frosty politics between Warsaw and Kyiv, the first concrete sign of a thaw comes with a pair of Soviet-designed fighters. Poland has decided to hand two more MiG-29 Fulcrums to Ukraine, a senior Polish defence official told the...
Share this story Two grey jets with the yellow-and-blue RMAF roundel on their intakes rolled to a stop at Labuan Air Base on Friday, 30 October 2026. They had flown down from Sacheon in South Korea, where Korea Aerospace Industries builds them, and they are the first...
Share this story Somewhere over Southern California, instrumented “red” fighters played the enemy, airliners went about their business and ships moved at sea. Watching them at the same time, from long range, was not a big radar jet full of operators. It...
Share this story A hypersonic glide vehicle gives a defender very little time and even less certainty. It flies inside the atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound and can change course on the way in. Europe wants an interceptor designed specifically for...
Share this story For six years, China’s reusable spaceplane has been one of spaceflight’s best-kept secrets. It launches on a rocket, stays in orbit for months, releases small objects, lands on a runway in the desert, and Beijing says almost nothing about...
Share this story Russia’s jet-powered Geran-4 drones were built to outrun the cheap defences that tamed the propeller Shahed. On Monday 27 October, Ukraine’s General Staff published a number that suggests the gap is starting to close: over the past three...
Share this story It took a string of defence ministers on both sides of the Pacific and a little more than two years, but the AIM-120 AMRAAM is finally getting a Japanese address. On Wednesday 28 October in Cebu, in the Philippines, Japan’s Defense Minister...
Share this story The photographs look like any official handover: dark suits, a red rope barrier, a framed certificate held up for the cameras. Behind the smiling delegation, though, stands a grey-and-white fighter with the Ethiopian tricolour on its twin tails. On...
Share this story There are two numbers no airline pilot wants to say on the radio in the same breath: one landing gear leg that will not come down, and minutes of fuel left. On Sunday evening, 25 October, the crew of United Airlines flight 1854 dealt with both over...
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