Share this story Many air forces share the same problem. It spends years and a small fortune turning a young officer into a military pilot, and then an airline offers that pilot a better salary and a calmer life. Austria has decided to stop fighting the airlines and...
Share this story India has been talking about its own stealth fighter for well over a decade. Now it has a date. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh says the first prototype of the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) is targeted to fly in September 2028. Speaking...
Share this story Most passengers get a window seat and a view of the wing. On Monday morning, 28 September, the passenger in the Air France A321 from Lourdes to Metz got the cockpit, a radio microphone, and two Rafales flying about 50 metres off the nose. Pope Leo XIV...
Share this story Turkey will not receive its first Eurofighter Typhoon until 2030. Its first Typhoon pilots, however, are already in Lincolnshire. On 27 September, the Royal Air Force announced that two Turkish Air Force pilots have started conversion training with 29...
Share this story Russian state television wanted to show viewers how the army protects the skies over Rostov. It ended up showing the world a weapon nobody can quite identify. In a report aired on the Russia-1 channel, soldiers from a mobile fire group of the 51st Air...
Share this story On Monday, 28 September, two Hürkuş trainers flew over the Turkish Aerospace (TUSAŞ) plant at Kahramankazan, outside Ankara. On the ground, officials signed them over to the Turkish Air Force. With that, the Hürkuş-II became the first of a new...
Share this story At about 6:18 p.m. on Monday, 28 September, something went badly wrong on the flight deck of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. A jet was coming aboard during recovery operations off the coast of Virginia. Moments later, both of its aviators had ejected....
Share this story Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has taken a Russian Geran-4 apart on camera, and what spills out of the airframe is less a Russian weapon than a catalogue of global supply chains. The jet-powered successor to the Shahed carries around 55 foreign-made...
Share this story Somewhere over the Libyan desert on the morning of 15 April 1986, the reconnaissance officer in the back seat of an SR-71 called out a warning to his pilot. Walter Watson was seeing missile launch signals on his defensive panel. Up front, Major Brian...
Share this story A single fighter jet, two bombs, and the busiest place in town at the busiest time of day. Around noon on Monday 28 September 2026, a Myanmar military jet struck near the main wholesale market in Kyauktaw, in the country’s western Rakhine State....
Share this story GE Aerospace says it is preparing to assemble the first XA102, the adaptive cycle engine it is developing for the US Air Force’s next fighter. In an announcement on 15 September, the company said it is buying hardware from suppliers and testing...
Share this story In the summer of 1976 a sound arrived on the shortwave bands that nobody had asked for. It was a hard, flat tapping, roughly ten beats a second, and it walked. One week it sat on top of an amateur band, the next it was parked across an aeronautical...
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