Share this story On 18 August 2026 a single A-10C Thunderbolt II took off from Nellis Air Force Base, flew a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range, and landed. Nothing about the sortie was unusual except everything about it. The aircraft was...
Share this story Most reconnaissance satellites sit in one orbit and photograph the ground. The two the Pentagon just ordered are designed to move, and to photograph each other’s neighbours. On 18 September the Defense Innovation Unit announced that Northrop...
Share this story The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk first flew in 1974. The company has been building them for the US Army since 1978. On Friday, Connecticut’s congressional delegation announced that the line at Stratford will keep running for another two years at...
Share this story At three o’clock this afternoon, six blue and gold Super Hornets will taxi out at Naval Air Station Oceana and close an air show that roughly 300,000 people are expected to attend across the weekend. It is the second of two performances, and it...
Share this story At 7:50 on a Saturday morning, somebody in a small aeroplane over the Catoctin Mountains looked out of the window and found an F-16 Fighting Falcon sitting off the wing, throwing burning decoy flares into the sky. That is not a metaphor. On 19...
Share this story A single-engine turboprop flew from California to the Atlantic this month, taxied itself, took itself off, found its own way around thunderstorms, slotted into one of the busiest general aviation airports in America without ever having been there, and...
Share this story Eleven months ago Castelion was a startup with an integration award and a good story. This week the US Navy placed a production order worth up to $200 million, and the Air Force quietly added $16.4 million to a research contract of its own. Two...
Share this story Anduril has a new Air Force contract, and the headline number is $85 million. The interesting part is everything the headline number leaves out. The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson has put the company on a programme called VOLARE,...
Share this story The Marine Corps spent six years arguing about Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations. Critics called it a PowerPoint concept built for a war with China that might never come. Supporters called it the future. Nobody had done it while being shot at....
Share this story Saudi Arabia has been asking for the F-35 for years. On Thursday it finally got an answer, and the answer was yes. The US State Department approved a possible sale of 48 F-35 Lightning II fighters to the kingdom, an estimated $24.3 billion package...
Share this story The US Space Force is the smallest armed service the United States has ever fielded. It is now planning to more than double, and the number it has quietly put on that ambition is bigger than the word “double” suggests. At the Air &...
Share this story Ukraine says it destroyed six Russian aircraft in one night, on the ground, at an airfield 160 kilometres from the front line. If the claim holds, it is among the heaviest single-night losses Russia has taken at one air base since the invasion began....
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