Share this story For sixty years, the answer to the question “what does Vietnam fly?” has been simple: whatever Moscow sold it. MiGs, then Sukhois — a proud, entirely Russian air force. In 2026, for the first time, that answer is genuinely in doubt,...
Share this story Three years ago, SAS was a cautionary tale. The Scandinavian flag carrier was in bankruptcy court, shedding aircraft, and being written off in the trade press as the next great European airline to disappear. In June 2026 it is doing something only a...
Share this story At Aero India 2025, on a warm February morning at Yelahanka Air Force Station near Bengaluru, a small boy tips his head all the way back. Above him a Russian Su-57 hauls itself into a vertical climb, rolls over the top, and falls back toward the...
Share this story The footage is grey and silent. A drone’s electro-optical camera holds a small boat in its crosshairs somewhere in the middle of the Black Sea; a laser spot blooms on the hull; the picture shudders. To anyone who lived through the spring of...
Share this story In a hangar outside Bengaluru, the most important aircraft India has built in a generation is being readied for the moment that matters most: leaving the ground. The Tejas Mk2 — bigger, sharper and far more capable than the little fighter that...
Share this story A catapult launch is one of the most violent things in aviation: zero to flying speed in two seconds, a punch that rattles teeth and bends steel. The General Atomics Mojave skips it entirely. This is a drone big enough to carry missiles — and it...
Share this story For most of 2026, Boeing was quietly winning. Through the first four months of the year, the American giant had handed over more jets than its European rival, and it looked as though the comeback story was finally taking shape. Then came May —...
Share this story For decades, America built cruise missiles like fine watches: exquisite, devastating, and so expensive you could only afford a handful. The Rusty Dagger is the opposite philosophy bolted under a wing — cheap, simple, turbojet-powered, and meant...
Share this story Step onto a Lufthansa A321 at Frankfurt this year and you might find yourself aboard a flying time machine. One aircraft in the fleet, registration D-AISZ, wears a design no airline has flown in earnest for half a century: a deep blue cheatline...
Share this story Picture climbing aboard in Los Angeles, settling into a cabin tall enough to stand up straight, and stepping off in Sydney without the aircraft ever touching the ground in between. No fuel stop in Honolulu, no diversion, no second leg. That is the...
Share this story Pull the throttle into afterburner and the jet that climbs away from the crowd is scarlet and white, the colours of the Danish flag wrapped around a screaming F-16. For two seasons, E-006 — the “Dannebrog” jet — has been the...
Share this story On a grey June morning at the ILA Berlin air show, the most ambitious warplane Europe never built quietly ceased to exist. The Future Combat Air System — FCAS, or SCAF to the French — was meant to give France, Germany and Spain a...
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