Aviación militar, Noticias
When we wrote about India circling France’s orphaned fighter programme two weeks ago, the talks were informal and deniable. They are not deniable any more. India’s Defence Ministry has told parliament it has, in its own words, “initiated efforts in a...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A ground-based IRIS-T battery can reach about eight miles in its short-range form, or roughly 25 miles in the medium-range version. Useful numbers, until the thing you need to shoot down is 200 miles away and heading for a city. So Diehl Defence and a German start-up...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Argentina bought five fighter jets from France, paid for them, and took delivery in May 2019. Seven years later, not one of them has flown a single operational sortie. On 20 August the Argentine Navy stopped pretending they ever would. The aircraft were fine. The...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The jet was already lost. The 51-year-old major flying it had seconds to decide where it would come down, and below him lay the outskirts of Szolnok, a Hungarian city of roughly 70,000 people. He did not pull the handle. Instead he stayed with the aircraft and steered...
Aviación militar, Noticias
In June 2025, an Italian Air Force spokesperson told Janes that Italy was not looking at acquiring any mission-specific systems to counter drones. On 21 August 2026, the US State Department approved the sale to Italy of 5,031 laser guidance kits designed to turn cheap...
Aviación militar, Noticias
In February we covered Turkey pairing its KAAN fighter with two ANKA III stealth drones, in Turkey Pairs the KAAN With Two Robot Wingmen. A crewed fighter commanding uncrewed ones is now a familiar idea. On 14 August, Turkish Aerospace posted flight imagery of...
Aviación militar, Noticias
On 10 August, Ukrainian drones hit the Taneco refinery at Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan, 1,200 kilometres from Ukraine. We covered it in Ukraine Hits Russia’s Deepest Refinery Yet. Ten days later they went back and hit it again. That is the part worth paying...
Aviación militar, Noticias
In April, the Chief of Naval Operations said the Navy would name the winner of the F/A-XX competition in August. The Defense Secretary said August. The Acting Navy Secretary said August. There is now one week of August left, and no announcement. We covered the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The 413th Flight Test Squadron does not fly rescue missions. It is a test unit. It puts helicopters through developmental trials and writes up the results. But when the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center calls, it is usually because everything else has already been...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The first generation of America’s robot fighters is already being built. The second generation is still an argument about engines. Speaking at the Air Force’s Life Cycle Industry Days conference in Dayton, Ohio, senior acquisition officials laid out where...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Ask a large language model for the combat radius of a foreign fighter and it will give you a number. Confident, specific, formatted like a fact. It may also be entirely invented. That is an inconvenience if you are writing a school essay. It is something else if you...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Poland has ordered 96 AH-64E Apache Guardians. When they arrive it will be the second-largest Apache fleet on earth, behind only the United States Army. Ninety-six attack helicopters is a headline. What happened at a factory in Łódź on 11 August 2026...
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