Share this story The number that follows the F-35 around got bigger again. In a fresh accounting delivered to Congress and confirmed by the programme office, the cost of buying America’s stealth fighter fleet has climbed by roughly $51 billion since late 2023 —...
Share this story Walk the halls of the IAA motor show in Munich and the story writes itself. Chinese cars everywhere, priced below anything a European maker can build, arriving in a market that spent a century assuming it owned the category.Now look at Jakarta, Dhaka,...
Share this story The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that Raytheon and Boeing had picked up contracts worth up to a combined $766 million tied to the B-52 Radar Modernization Program.It is a substantial sum for a programme whose central task is replacing one radar with...
Share this story Britain has spent three years shipping Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine. It has now agreed to something rather more consequential: letting Ukraine help build them.Ahead of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s visit to Kyiv on 24 August, London...
Share this story On Tuesday afternoon in Dhaka, a government adviser stood up at the Secretariat and confirmed that a committee had finished drafting the agreement. Bangladesh intends to buy the Chengdu J-10.Twenty aircraft. A headline figure of $2.302 billion. And a...
Share this story Buried in a routine American contract announcement on Monday was a single word that set the European defence press moving: Poland.The US Department of War confirmed that Boeing had been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for...
Share this story For four years, one of the more entertaining puzzles in open-source intelligence has been a set of aircraft-shaped objects sitting on Chinese ramps. They looked a bit like the Chengdu J-20. They also looked a bit wrong. Analysts squinted at satellite...
Share this story Somebody at the Tailhook Association convention this past weekend was holding a camera when the U.S. Navy put a particular slide on the screen. On it: a pair of Castelion Blackbeard test articles hanging under the right wing of an F/A-18E/F Super...
Share this story On 14 November 2004, a US Navy F/A-18F on a routine training intercept off southern California was vectored onto something the cruiser USS Princeton had been tracking for days. The squadron commander who flew that intercept has described what he saw...
Share this story Five years ago this month, a US Marine Corps F-35B took off from a British aircraft carrier, landed on an American assault ship, took on fuel and weapons, and flew off again to attack a second set of targets. The Marine Corps called it the first time...
Share this story The raid was supposed to take thirty minutes. Sixteen helicopters, a four-minute flight, two Somali commanders lifted out of a building near the Olympic Hotel, and home. What happened instead ran for seventeen hours and cost eighteen American lives,...
Share this story At about twenty to eight on the evening of 15 May 1941, after a day of weather bad enough to keep everyone waiting, a small silver aeroplane with no propeller took off from RAF Cranwell and flew for seventeen minutes. It was not the first jet aircraft...
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