Share this story The Pentagon is getting a new four-star command, and its weapons don’t need pilots. Speaking to around 600 junior officers and senior NCOs at Marine Corps Base Quantico on 30 September, Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Autonomous Warfare...
Share this story Ukraine finally has the jet it begged for. The problem is getting it out of the hangar. More than half of the Ukrainian Air Force’s F-16 Fighting Falcons are currently tied up in maintenance, according to a Wall Street Journal report published...
Share this story On 30 September 2026 the European Union Aviation Safety Agency published a two-page document that will quietly rearrange a lot of flight plans. It is called CZIB-2026-09, its subject line is simply Airspace of Saudi Arabia, and it tells European...
Share this story WestJet was built on the Boeing 737-700. On 28 September 2026 it started getting rid of them, and it did so in the same week the aeroplane meant to replace them lost its certification date. The mechanism is an agreement with FTAI Aviation covering 27...
Share this story Three point two kilometres of water sit on top of the only object that can explain what happened to K2 Airways Flight 1732. The Pakistan Navy says it has found it. The announcement came on 29 and 30 September 2026, almost three months after the Boeing...
Share this story Eight of the ten aeroplanes Ethiopian Airlines just bought do not exist yet. That is the interesting part. On 30 September 2026 Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines announced an order for ten freighters: two 777Fs, the twin-engine workhorse that has hauled...
Share this story Somewhere in the second-hand widebody market, a Boeing 777-200ER that spent its career hauling passengers between Auckland and the rest of the world has just been bought by a hypersonics company. It is going to Mojave. It is going to have a hypersonic...
Share this story Within nine hours of flydubai FZ1073 landing at Tabuk, an Israeli cabinet minister had called it a jihadist terror attack, a finance minister had said the perpetrator should pay as though he had murdered, and the airline flying the aircraft had asked...
Share this story The man who buys the US Air Force’s fighters has a simple view of what matters most right now: factories. Speaking at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies on 28 September 2026, Brig. Gen. Timothy Helfrich said the F-47 sixth-generation...
Share this story The Pentagon has been shooting missiles faster than it can buy them, and it has decided to fix that with a very large cheque. On 28 September 2026, RTX’s Raytheon announced a multiyear contract worth up to $20.7 billion for the AIM-120 AMRAAM,...
Share this story Before a fighter pilot fires, one question has to be answered with certainty: is that contact a friend or a foe? On the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the box that answers it is about to change. BAE Systems announced on 29 September 2026 that its...
Share this story Update, 30 September 2026, afternoonThe picture has changed sharply since this story was first published. According to Israeli officials, the first officer is now under investigation on suspicion of trying to crash the aircraft. The captain suffered...
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