Share this story Farnborough 2026 has closed, and for once the headline is not a record. Boeing came out narrowly ahead of Airbus in the order race — but the show’s real story was how modest that race turned out to be. By Reuters’ tally, Boeing...
Share this story A Russian fifth-generation fighter came down west of Moscow on 23 July. The pilot ejected and survived; the aircraft did not. Russian media identified the jet as a Sukhoi Su-57, the country’s newest stealth fighter. The Defence Ministry confirmed that...
Comparte esta historia. He aquí una forma barata de aterrorizar a un planificador naval: toma un avión de carga común, saca una paleta de misiles de crucero por la parte trasera y deja que vuelen solos hacia el objetivo. La Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. lleva años perfeccionando este truco bajo el nombre de Rapid...
Share this story Poland’s stealth fighter has, until now, been an American export — built in Fort Worth, Texas, and flown across the Atlantic. This week that changed. The first Polish F-35A assembled in Europe, at Leonardo’s final-assembly line in...
Share this story Archer Aviation spent years promising to fly you across a city in a whisper-quiet electric air taxi. At Farnborough this week it revealed something rather different: a pilotless, hybrid-electric tiltrotor built with the defence-technology firm...
Share this story The reveal came without a flypast, without a scream of afterburner. On the second day of the Farnborough International Airshow, BAE Systems pulled a cover from a matt-grey, tailless aircraft roughly the size of a Hawk trainer and gave Britain its...
Share this story Every couple of years, the aviation industry decamps to a former airfield in Hampshire and spends a week trying to out-announce itself. Farnborough 2026 is no exception — and by the close of the second day, the scoreboard had already ticked past...
Share this story Hunting a submarine is a team sport. This year, at the world’s largest naval exercise, the team stopped stopping at national borders — and started sharing the same aircraft.For the first time at RIMPAC, the U.S. Navy is flying mixed...
Share this story The message came from Air Operations Command in Jakarta, and for the ninety-five men and women of Skadron Udara 15 it meant something none of them had done before: pack up five jets, cross the Arafura Sea, and go fly with the world.For the first time,...
Share this story The Philippines is doubling down on the little jet that guards its skies — and this time it is buying the version that finally bites back at range.The Philippine Air Force has confirmed that its next 12 FA-50 fighters remain on schedule, with...
Share this story Ten nights in, the pattern has become grimly familiar. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. Eastern on 20 July, U.S. Central Command announced it had finished another round of strikes on Iran — the tenth consecutive night — hitting military command...
Share this story Jakarta went shopping for a frontline fighter and came home, instead, with a very clever trainer that shoots back.At Farnborough on 21 July, Leonardo and its Indonesian partner PT ESystem Solutions signed a contract with Indonesia’s Ministry of...
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