Share this story Around noon on Friday, 2 October, an F-16 with a Republic of China flag spread across its instrument panel touched down at Chihhang Air Base in Taitung, on Taiwan’s Pacific coast. A second jet followed it in. After three years of slipped...
Share this story The bomb was supposed to fall away into the sky. Instead it came back up the chute and hit Staff Sergeant Henry Erwin in the face, burning at around 1,300°F (about 700°C). Within seconds he was blind, his clothes were on fire, and thick white...
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 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 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 Ukraine finally has the jet it begged for. The problem is getting it out of the hangar. More than half of the Ukrainian Air Force’s F-16 Fighting Falcons are currently tied up in maintenance, according to a Wall Street Journal report published...
Share this story Three point two kilometres of water sit on top of the only object that can explain what happened to K2 Airways Flight 1732. The Pakistan Navy says it has found it. The announcement came on 29 and 30 September 2026, almost three months after the Boeing...
Share this story Within nine hours of flydubai FZ1073 landing at Tabuk, an Israeli cabinet minister had called it a jihadist terror attack, a finance minister had said the perpetrator should pay as though he had murdered, and the airline flying the aircraft had asked...
Share this story China has very few military footholds abroad, and on 29 September 2026 it quietly added one more. Beijing’s Ministry of National Defence announced that a China-Laos Joint Support and Training Center and a China-Laos Friendship Aviation Academy...
Share this story Belgium promised Ukraine fighter jets more than two years ago. On 29 September 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky finally put a number and a date on the first of them: three Belgian F-16 Fighting Falcons, to be handed over before the end of this year. Zelensky...
Share this story The US Navy has picked Boeing to build its next carrier fighter. On Tuesday 29 September 2026, the Pentagon announced that Boeing had won the F/A-XX competition against Northrop Grumman, with a full-scale development contract valued at more than $20...
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