Share this story Before dawn on 14 June, two Royal Air Force Chinook helicopters thundered low over the English Channel toward a 244-metre oil tanker flying the flag of Cameroon. Hanging beneath them, silhouetted against the first grey light, were Royal Marines from...
Share this story For more than six decades, every fighter jet in the Algerian Air Force has come from one country: Russia. MiG-21s, MiG-25s, Su-30MKAs, MiG-29s — the entire combat fleet reads like a catalogue of Soviet and Russian design bureaux. That era is about to...
Share this story The West gave Ukraine its best single-engine fighter. Then Ukraine’s pilots threw away the instruction manual. Since the first F-16 Fighting Falcons arrived in Ukrainian skies in August 2024, the pilots who fly them have compiled a combat record...
Cuando dos terremotos sacudieron el norte de Venezuela el 24 de junio —un sismo premonitorio de magnitud 7,2 seguido 39 segundos después por un catastrófico sismo principal de magnitud 7,5— la frágil infraestructura del país colapsó en cuestión de minutos. Edificios quedaron reducidos a escombros en Caracas...
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...
El Cuerpo de la Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica atacó el domingo instalaciones militares estadounidenses en todo el Golfo Pérsico, lanzando misiles balísticos y drones armados contra bases en Kuwait y Bahréin en lo que Teherán calificó como una respuesta directa a los ataques estadounidenses contra objetivos iraníes cerca de...
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....
La Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos ha descartado discretamente uno de los requisitos de armamento más ambiciosos de los últimos tiempos: un nuevo misil aire-aire capaz de destruir objetivos a una distancia mínima de 1000 millas náuticas, aproximadamente 1150 millas terrestres. Eso equivale a aproximadamente diez...
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 Two hundred miles from the nearest NATO border, Serbia is building an air defence network that Beijing designed and no Western alliance approved. On 28 June, President Aleksandar Vucic confirmed what defence analysts had suspected for months: Belgrade...
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 Every aircraft you have ever seen in the sky was first tested in a room where nothing flies at all. Wind tunnels are, conceptually, the simplest tools in aerospace engineering: take a tube, put air in one end, put a model in the middle, and measure...
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