Share this story The U.S. Navy’s two great ocean-watchers already work as a pair. Now they are learning to talk directly to each other — and one of them is about to start taking orders straight from the other’s cockpit. On 5 August, Boeing and...
Share this story Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, an airport worker at Leipzig/Halle spotted something that should not have been there: a drone, sitting on the tarmac near the south runway, carrying an explosive device. It was resting a short distance from one of...
Share this story Bangladesh does not often make the big Boeing headlines. That changed at a hotel ballroom in Dhaka, where the country’s largest private airline quietly placed the biggest bet of its twelve-year life. At the “Beyond with Boeing” event...
Share this story America has been building a missile so secret it barely shows its face in public. Now it is letting a friend hold it — and Australia gets to go first. On 6 August, at Exercise Pitch Black in Darwin, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister...
Share this story The Pentagon’s vision of cheap robot fighters flying shotgun for crewed jets took two big steps this week. One went forward. The other went straight into the Utah desert. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has begun building the first...
Share this story For four months, the job of guarding NATO’s eastern edge over the Black Sea fell to a handful of British fighters sitting at cockpit readiness in Romania. Last week, they handed the watch to Spain and went home. On July 31, 2026, Royal Air Force...
Share this story For thirty years, a JDAM was a dumb bomb with a brain bolted on: cheap, accurate, and useful only if you flew almost directly over the target. The Air Force just bought a version that can hit something more than 300 miles away. On August 5, 2026, the...
Share this story Somewhere over the Indian Ocean last week, a Boeing 777 Freighter was doing something faintly absurd: flying a set of engine parts almost 10,000 nautical miles, nonstop, because a single airliner on the other side of the planet could not fly without...
Share this story Every two years, the empty skies over Australia’s Top End fill with the noise of the largest air-combat exercise in the Southern Hemisphere. This year, for the first time, some of those fighters wore Japanese and Indonesian markings. Exercise...
Share this story For about ninety seconds on Tuesday afternoon, the most protected passenger in the world and a planeload of holidaymakers bound for Florida were sharing a narrow slice of Washington sky that the rules say they never should have. On August 4, 2026,...
Share this story A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II was built to kill tanks. Late last month it was flying cover for something far more valuable than any tank column: a submarine carrying enough firepower to end a war. On July 28, 2026, the Navy photographed one of...
Share this story Saudi Arabia’s glossy new airline has just made its boldest move yet. On 4 August 2026, Riyadh Air flew its first service to Mumbai — a daily Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner between the Saudi capital and India’s financial heart, and the...
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