Share this story In the small hours of 10 August 2006, British police arrested around two dozen people. By the time most of the country woke up, hand baggage had effectively been abolished. Passengers at Heathrow were told to carry their documents in a clear plastic...
Share this story Shortly after lunchtime on Monday, 5 October 2026, an F-35A wearing the Iron Cross of the German Air Force touched down at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and taxied under a ceremonial water arch. The flight from Lockheed...
Share this story The jet trainer most famous for teaching pilots to fly fast is learning a new trade: hunting drones. Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody and Thales Belgium announced on 5 October 2026 that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the...
Share this story Russia’s newest attack drones are fast enough to outrun most of the interceptor drones Ukraine sends up against them. On Monday, 5 October 2026, the Ukrainian Air Force said it had found an answer that does not need to fly at all: automated...
Share this story After a year of delays, America’s first scramjet-powered strike weapon has finally left an aircraft. The US Air Force confirmed on 5 October 2026 that the Royal Australian Air Force has released a Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile, or HACM,...
Share this story At 9:13 on Monday morning, 5 October 2026, air traffic controllers in southern Nigeria lost contact with a Nigerian Air Force ATR 42 flying from Benin City to Lagos. Repeated calls on the radio went unanswered. Hours later, search teams found the...
Share this story Eighty-one. That is how many American aircraft have now been destroyed, lost or damaged in the war with Iran, according to an updated tally from the Congressional Research Service, Congress’s in-house think tank. The report was revised on 5...
Share this story A two-seat F-16 in desert camouflage climbed away from Lockheed Martin’s plant in Greenville, South Carolina, on Tuesday, 6 October 2026, carrying red Moroccan roundels on its wings. It was the first flight of the first F-16 Block 72 ever built,...
Share this story A fighter pilot’s own eyes, and even his own radar, only see a small piece of the sky. Somewhere on the ground, a controller in a dark room sees much more. Ground-controlled interception, or GCI, is the system that joins the two: radar stations...
Share this story On a radar screen, every aircraft looks much the same: a blip. It might be a friendly fighter coming home, an airliner, or an enemy bomber. Get it wrong one way and an enemy slips through. Get it wrong the other way and you shoot down your own people....
Share this story On 8 December 1964, at Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Indiana, a Convair B-58 Hustler sat on the ramp going nowhere. Cranes were rigged alongside it. Then one of its three crew stations fired itself off the aeroplane on a rocket, climbed away on a...
Share this story Watch fighters take off from almost any air base in the world and you will notice something: they rarely go alone. They roll down the runway in pairs, climb out together and fly the whole mission as a team of two. In fighter slang, that pair is a...
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