Share this story Five years after the Taliban walked into Kabul, one of the odder questions in military aviation is still unanswered: what is actually left of the air force the United States spent two decades and billions of dollars building? The honest answer is that...
Share this story For thirty years the United States Air Force has fought wars in which nothing much threatened its airfields. Aircraft were parked in neat rows in the open because nobody could reach them. That assumption is gone. And the Air Force’s response is...
Share this story The F-16 Fighting Falcon first flew in 1974. More than fifty years later, eight countries have collectively put around a billion dollars into making sure it can still survive a modern air defence network — and almost none of that money has gone...
Share this story The whole system fits on two pickup trucks. That sentence, buried in an Airbus press release, is the reason the French armed forces have just ordered eight of these aircraft. On 10 September 2026 France’s Aeronautical Maintenance Directorate...
Share this story Australia has quietly changed the arithmetic of its air force. On 11 September 2026 the Royal Australian Air Force declared initial operational capability for two long-range missiles on the F/A-18F Super Hornet: the AGM-158C LRASM against ships, and...
Share this story There is a photograph doing the rounds of a grey twinjet sitting in a hangar in Brazil, wearing markings almost nobody expected to see on an Embraer product: the words UZ AIR FORCE, the registration UK 39010, and roundels in the blue, white and green...
Share this story Most fighter contracts that make the news are about metal: airframes, engines, how many and how much. This one is about something you cannot photograph, and it may matter more than any of that. On 10 September 2026, Edgewing — the company...
Share this story At ten to nine on a clear Tuesday morning, Lieutenant Colonel Tom Froling lifted off from Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, Michigan, and turned north. The trees had not started to change yet. It was, by every measure available...
Share this story Jam the satellites and most modern weapons go stupid. That is the whole premise of electronic warfare in 2026, and it is why every air force on earth is quietly panicking about how much of its inventory depends on a faint signal broadcast from 20,000...
Share this story On the morning of 6 August 2026, somewhere in the scrub outside Tan-Tan on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, a fat orange object with stubby wings and a jet engine bolted under its belly rolled forward, lit a rocket booster, and climbed away into a bruised...
Share this story In the last week of August, in a village in the Swiss canton of Glarus, a small grey helicopter with no one inside it lifted off, flew a profile, and landed again. It did this five more times, in six different airframes. Painted on the side of each...
Share this story On an August night over North Dakota, a four-engine transport aircraft crosses the city of Minot at about the height of a tall office block, in the dark, with two steel booms poking out of the doors where paratroopers normally jump. It is not...
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