Share this story In the first nine months of 2026, Ukrainian military units ordered more than 590,000 drones through a single online marketplace. The number alone is remarkable. What they chose to buy is more telling: the most ordered category is no longer the FPV...
Share this story Early on Saturday 26 September, two Houthi ballistic missiles were fired at Khamis Mushait, a city high in the mountains of south-western Saudi Arabia. Both were shot down, according to the Saudi-led coalition. At the same time, two Houthi drones were...
Share this story For more than forty years, a Cessna Citation that legally needed two pilots could be flown by one, as long as the pilot held the right exemption and endorsement. That ends on 29 September. The FAA has announced that it will stop issuing single-pilot...
Share this story For years, India bought its fighters from Russia and France, and US stealth jets only turned up in Indian skies at air shows. That changes today. Exercise Tarang Shakti 2026 starts at Jodhpur Air Force Station in Rajasthan, and for the first time US...
Share this story The flight should have been routine: a short hop from Kikwit back to Kinshasa for a delegation returning from an official mission. Instead, on the afternoon of Friday 25 September, a Let L-410 Turbolet came down on a residential plot in Kenge, in the...
Share this story Somewhere on every long-haul flight there is a passenger explaining to a neighbour that the trip is about the same as a chest X-ray. It is one of aviation’s most durable pieces of received wisdom, and it turns out to be roughly right for...
Share this story NATO has run a lot of joint procurement competitions. Almost all of them ended with every country buying something different anyway. Exactly one produced an aircraft that three air forces actually flew, in numbers, for decades. It was small, it was...
Share this story Type “do air traffic controllers make 300k” into Google and you will get a wall of confident yes. It is one of those numbers that circulates because it sounds plausible and nobody checks the source. The source, as it turns out, says...
Share this story Ottawa put out a press release on Thursday morning with the word capability in the headline and four ministers queued up to welcome it. Read past the quotes and the document Canada actually signed is a term sheet — a written agreement about what...
Share this story Walk onto a US Air Force flight line and ask someone to point you at a Fighting Falcon and you will get a blank look, then a correction. It is a Viper. The Lancer over there is a Bone. The Stratofortress is a BUFF, and nobody has called the A-10 a...
Share this story An airliner crossing Kansas at Mach 0.85 is doing nothing remarkable. The same aeroplane at Mach 1.01 would be breaking federal law. The line is not about safety, or engineering, or fuel. It is about a noise, and about an American town in 1964 that...
Share this story Stand on the bridge wing of an American aircraft carrier during flight operations and the deck below looks like a paint chart having a nervous breakdown. Yellow, green, red, purple, blue, brown and white, all moving at once, in a space the size of...
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