Share this story An aircraft with three quarters the wingspan of an Airbus A320 and the weight of two adults took off from a runway in Saxony-Anhalt on 2 September, flew a wide, careful circuit for seventy minutes, and landed again. It never went higher than 180...
Share this story The Royal Air Force flies several aircraft that it cannot refuel. This is not a secret, and it is not new, but it is faintly absurd, and it has finally produced an answer. In a written answer on 2 September, Minister of State for Defence Readiness and...
Share this story Russia is taking its export fighter to the Egyptian coast next week, and it is bringing something it has never shown anyone. Rostec, the Russian state defence conglomerate, says the Su-57E will fly at the El Alamein International Airshow from 8 to 10...
Share this story A modern airliner cruising at 38,000 feet is, from the point of view of a surface-to-air missile battery, a large, slow, predictable radar return. Everything that keeps it safe is procedural: the crew knows where not to fly, and the people with the...
Share this story Hypersonic weapons have a problem that has nothing to do with physics. They work. They are also so expensive that nobody can afford to fire very many of them, which in a serious war is the same thing as not having them. On 1 September the Air Force...
Share this story On 1 September, a formation of very old, very large aeroplanes settled onto a runway in the Northern Territory of Australia, 4,000 kilometres from the nearest American base and comfortably beyond the reach of most of China’s missile force. That was...
Share this story There is an Airbus A380 sitting in the sun at Tarbes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees. It has been there since 16 July 2025. It is painted for an airline that has flown four flights in its entire existence, holds no air operator’s certificate, and is...
Share this story For years the standard defence of the F-35 went like this: yes, the development was a nightmare, but the unit price kept falling, and eventually a stealth fighter would cost about what a fourth-generation jet costs. That argument has now run out of...
Comparte esta historia. Comprar más aviones de combate de alta gama parece una victoria fácil. El Pentágono acaba de publicar la letra pequeña, y es un recordatorio de que, en materia de adquisiciones de defensa, duplicar un pedido nunca es simplemente cuestión de extender un cheque más grande. A principios de este año, Estados Unidos...
Comparte esta historia. Aproximadamente a las siete de la mañana del 2 de septiembre, un Hércules gris de cuatro motores, repleto de antenas, rodó por la pista de la Base Aérea Davis-Monthan en Arizona y ascendió hacia la bruma del desierto. Su indicativo era VOLT01. Seis horas después llegó...
Comparte esta historia. Un breve vídeo publicado en Instagram esta semana muestra algo impensable hace una década: un avión de combate a reacción, sin cabina ni piloto, aterrizando por sí solo en una pista desértica. Se trata del YFQ-44A Fury de Anduril. El...
Comparte esta historia Frank Kendall, quien se desempeñó como Secretario de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos desde julio de 2021 hasta enero de 2025, pasó tres días a principios de septiembre de 2026 defendiendo el mismo argumento en tres lugares: un artículo de opinión en The New York Times el 1 de septiembre, una entrevista en...
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