Share this story A medium-altitude, long-endurance drone landed on a dirt track that tanks drive down, in the middle of a live-fire range, while a simulated battle was going on around it. Then it took off again and carried on with the mission. General Atomics...
Share this story Ukraine says it destroyed six Russian aircraft in one night, on the ground, at an airfield 160 kilometres from the front line. If the claim holds, it is among the heaviest single-night losses Russia has taken at one air base since the invasion began....
Share this story Lufthansa has spent forty years as one of the most reliably Airbus-shaped airlines in Europe. On Wednesday evening its supervisory board signed off on twenty more Boeings — and specifically on the biggest 737 ever built. The Lufthansa Group is...
Share this story An F-16 Fighting Falcon belonging to the 149th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard came down in rural northern Michigan on Thursday afternoon. The pilot ejected and was recovered alive. That last sentence is the story. Everything else is...
Share this story The Boeing 737 MAX spent almost two years grounded worldwide after two crashes killed everybody on board both aircraft. Its reputation has never entirely recovered, whatever the safety record since. The United States Air Force is going to buy one, and...
Share this story There are 96 military veterans in the United States Congress. Forty-five served in the Army, twenty-four in the Navy, twelve in the Marine Corps and fifteen in the Air Force. Of those fifteen, exactly one flew fighters. Rep. August Pfluger of Texas...
Share this story Every December, C-130Js from Yokota fly to Guam and spend a fortnight pushing bundles out of the back over the Federated States of Micronesia. Operation Christmas Drop has run for seventy-four years and reaches sixty islands. It is charming, and it is...
Share this story There were several news helicopters over Chatsworth on the evening of 15 September. A Metro bus and an SUV had collided in the west San Fernando Valley and people had died, so the aircraft that cover Los Angeles from above had gathered, as they do....
Share this story Somebody has flown every tanker the U.S. Air Force has ever operated. The new head of Air Mobility Command would like to know whether that needs to stay true. “I do not believe that it has to be a manned future air refueling solution,” Lt....
Share this story The United States fired 1,100 JASSMs at Iran in the first 39 days of the war. That is not a stockpile being drawn down. That is a stockpile being emptied. Lockheed Martin’s answer, unveiled this week, is not a better missile. It is a missile you...
Share this story She had been in the Space Force for two years. She was somewhere in the Middle East, at a console, with a trailer-mounted dish pointed at the sky. Within hours of Operation Epic Fury beginning she was handed a priority target package and told to...
Share this story Russian-registered aircraft have been banned from European Union airspace since 2022. On the morning of 16 September, one landed in Germany anyway, with permission, and with the German foreign ministry explaining why. At 09:36 an Ilyushin Il-96-300 in...
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