Share this story In late 2024, a group of engineers, venture capitalists, and a former British defence secretary founded a company in Cambridge with a single goal: build a weapon that could kill a Shahed drone for roughly the same price as the drone itself. Fourteen...
Share this story The next generation of Portuguese military pilots will learn to fly in an aircraft that weighs less than a family car. On April 9, 2026, Tecnam and Spanish aviation services provider World Aviation announced that the Portuguese Air Force has selected...
Share this story The video opens with a clip of an esports tournament. Screens glow. Controllers click. A crowd roars. Then the camera cuts to an air traffic control tower, and a voice asks the question the Federal Aviation Administration hopes will change American...
Share this story For forty days, the skies over Iraq were empty. No airliners cruised overhead at 35,000 feet. No cargo planes descended into Baghdad International. No transit fees were collected, no passengers moved, no overflights logged. From late February to April...
Share this story On April 3, 2026, an F-15E Strike Eagle with the callsign Dude 44 was hit by a shoulder-fired missile over Iran’s Zagros Mountains. Both crew members ejected. The pilot was recovered within hours. The weapons systems officer — a colonel — was not. He...
Share this story On April 8, 2026, two French Air and Space Force Rafale B fighters roared off the runway at Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, afterburners slicing through the cold Baltic morning. This was not a training exercise. A NATO Alpha Scramble — the real thing...
Share this story In the pre-dawn darkness of April 1, 2026, a Royal Bahraini Air Force F-16 Block 70 lifted off from Sheikh Isa Air Base and turned toward an incoming threat that ground-based air defenses had already failed to stop. Two Iranian drones were inbound....
Share this story For generations, the U.S. Army has trained its own helicopter pilots. Military instructor pilots taught military students in military aircraft on military bases, and the system — while imperfect — produced the aviators who flew Apaches in Iraq, Black...
Share this story The U.S. Air Force just awarded a contract to develop something that sounds like a contradiction: jet engines designed to be thrown away. Small, cheap, and built for a single mission, these disposable powerplants are intended for the next generation...
Share this story On April 8, 2026, the French Air and Space Force announced a milestone that had been years in the making: its first-ever launch of an AGM-114 Hellfire missile from a fixed-wing aircraft. The test, conducted over a French military range, marks...
Share this story In a classified wargame room, Air Force planners just finished one of the most consequential simulations in recent memory. The question on the table: if the United States goes to war with China over Taiwan, what mix of aircraft gives the Air Force the...
Share this story The U.S. Air Force just opened its biggest pilot retention bonus program in history. Starting April 1, 2026, eligible aviators can apply for annual bonuses up to $50,000 — with total payouts reaching $600,000 over a 12-year commitment. The Air Force...
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