Share this story A post circulating on Instagram sums up the Dassault Rafale as the ultimate “omnirole” fighter: carrier operations, nuclear strike, close air support and air superiority “from a single airframe without configuration changes”,...
Share this story Ignore a U.S. warship on channel 16 and you may get a very short, very loud reply. On Saturday, 10 October 2026, a U.S. fighter jet put a precision-guided munition into the stern of the Panama-flagged cargo ship M/V Ocean Molica in the Gulf of Oman,...
Share this story The Sukhoi Su-34 “Fullback” is one of the odder fighters in service: a two-seat strike jet with the crew sitting side by side, a pressurised cabin you can stand up in, and a reputation for creature comforts. A post circulating on Instagram...
Share this story The third strike in four days was the one nobody walked away from. On Saturday, 10 October 2026, a projectile slammed into King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, the Saudi capital’s main gateway, killing at least 12 people and wounding...
Share this story Stealth is an argument about angles. Shape an airframe so that almost everything a radar sends at it leaves in some other direction, coat what is left so that part of the remainder turns into heat, and the energy coming back to the transmitter falls...
Share this story In the first week of October 2025, Munich Airport shut down twice in roughly twenty-four hours. The first closure stranded around 3,000 passengers, the second about 6,500. Police mounted a large operation on both nights and found nobody. A week...
Share this story Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton was 53 years old, a navigator with a lifetime in the Air Force behind him and a love of golf. On Easter Sunday, 2 April 1972, he was also the only man to get out of an aircraft blown apart by a Soviet-made missile...
Share this story For six days in June 1995, a hunted man in Bosnia was a 29-year-old American fighter pilot lying face-down in the undergrowth. Bosnian Serb soldiers walked past him. Some fired their rifles nearby. He ate leaves, grass and insects, and squeezed...
Share this story In the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. Air Force learned an awkward lesson. Its laser-guided bombs were superb in clear skies, but dust, smoke, fog and cloud could blind them, and most of the bombs American aircraft dropped were still unguided. Air &...
Share this story The Navy has looked at a fighter-sized drone that takes off standing on its tail, and decided to put more money on the table. On 8 October 2026, Shield AI announced that the U.S. Navy had executed a $150 million modification to its agreement for...
Share this story Most warships come home with a fresh coat of paint. USS Abraham Lincoln came home with a scoreboard. When the Nimitz-class carrier eased into Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego on Thursday, 8 October 2026, its island was plastered with rows...
Share this story Italy’s share of the next-generation fighter now has an address. On Friday, 9 October 2026, Edgewing, the joint company designing the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) fighter for Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, cut the ribbon on Edgewing...
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