Share this story Not every successful fighter needs to be the best in the world. Some just need to be good enough, affordable and available. The JF-17 Thunder, built jointly by Pakistan and China, has turned that formula into an export success, and this year it became...
Share this story Some aces are remembered for their kills. Hubert Zemke is remembered for his pilots. As commander of the US Eighth Air Force’s 56th Fighter Group, he turned a unit of eager young P-47 Thunderbolt pilots into Zemke’s Wolf Pack, one of the...
Share this story At a quarter past three on the afternoon of 14 October 1973, Egyptian radar operators in the Nile Delta watched a formation of Israeli jets sweep in from the Mediterranean near Port Said. Over the next 53 minutes, the sky above the Delta filled with...
Share this story Britain has named a suspect state. Four days after police arrested five men near RAF Fairford, the Gloucestershire base that hosts American bombers, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the BBC on 30 September that there are strong indications Iran played...
Share this story Walk past the outdoor displays at ADEX 2026 in Baku and you will find a Chinese fighter wearing Azerbaijani colours. China’s state aerospace group AVIC has parked a full-scale mock-up of the Chengdu J-10CE at the Azerbaijan International Defence...
Share this story America’s transport secretary has a new worry, and it is not a crash. It is a calendar. Speaking in Washington on 30 September, Sean Duffy said the United States must certify new airliners faster or risk losing the next generation of aviation to...
Share this story France has moved from promising Rafales to preparing the people who will fly them. Speaking to franceinfo on 29 September, France’s Minister for Europe Benjamin Haddad confirmed that Paris is in talks with Kyiv about sending Rafale fighters to...
Share this story The aircraft are old, white and almost anonymous: four-engined Ilyushin Il-76 freighters with Russian registrations and no airline name on the side. According to a Defense News investigation published on 30 September, they have also flown more than...
Share this story The US Air Force’s newest Eagle has a blind spot, and the service has just admitted it in writing. On 29 September the F-15 programme office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base published a sources-sought notice asking industry for a missile...
Share this story Turkey’s newest military trainer has found a buyer next door. At the ADEX 2026 defence exhibition in Baku on 30 September, Turkey and Azerbaijan signed a package of defence contracts worth more than $500 million, and the headline item was an...
Share this story On Tuesday, AnimaWings pulled six of its eight aircraft out of service. On Wednesday, it went to court. The Romanian airline filed for insolvency with the Bucharest Tribunal on 30 September 2026, one day after grounding its entire fleet of Airbus...
Share this story The Pentagon is getting a new four-star command, and its weapons don’t need pilots. Speaking to around 600 junior officers and senior NCOs at Marine Corps Base Quantico on 30 September, Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Autonomous Warfare...
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