Share this story Buying more of a good fighter sounds like an easy win. The Pentagon has just published the fine print, and it is a reminder that in defence procurement, doubling an order is never simply a matter of writing a bigger cheque. Earlier this year the U.S....
Share this story At about seven in the morning on 2 September, a grey four-engined Hercules bristling with antennas rolled down the runway at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona and climbed into the desert haze. Its callsign was VOLT01. Six hours later it came...
Share this story A short clip posted to Instagram this week shows something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: a jet-powered combat aircraft, no cockpit, no pilot, settling onto a desert runway on its own. The aircraft is Anduril’s YFQ-44A Fury. The...
Partagez cette histoire : Frank Kendall, qui a été secrétaire à l’Air Force des États-Unis de juillet 2021 à janvier 2025, a passé trois jours début septembre 2026 à développer le même argument à trois reprises : dans une tribune publiée dans le New York Times le 1er septembre, dans une interview….
Partagez cette information. Le 2 septembre 2026, l'armée de l'air indienne a publié deux photographies sur X : une bombe en vol plané et l'explosion qui a mis fin à sa trajectoire. Le texte d'accompagnement annonçait le largage réussi d'une bombe planante à longue portée de conception indienne, appelée….
Partagez cette histoire. Le jeudi 3 septembre 2026, vers sept heures du matin, dans le village de Probuzhdeniye, près d'Engels, dans la région de Saratov en Russie, un homme à moto, le visage dissimulé par un casque, a tiré deux coups de pistolet sur un militaire, puis….
Share this story On or around 31 August 2026, over an Egyptian air base, a Chinese tanker extended its hose and refuelled a French-built Rafale. The Egyptian military spokesman released the image; Chinese accounts amplified it within hours. It is, as far as anyone can...
Share this story For the second time in four days, Polish fighters have been scrambled to meet a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea. On Thursday afternoon, 3 September 2026, the four-engined turboprop was intercepted roughly 40 kilometres north...
Share this story It is the question we get asked more than any other, and it is the one question about fighter aircraft that has no honest single answer. The problem is not that nobody knows. The problem is that “best” is four or five different questions...
Share this story Most aeroplanes are shaped by aerodynamics. The Short Skyvan was shaped by what would fit inside it. Short Brothers started from the cargo and worked outwards: a square-section fuselage of constant cross-section, running straight back to a full-width...
Share this story Inside the glider, in the dark, the tank crew sat in their tank with the engine running. The exhaust was ducted out through the side of the aircraft. When the glider stopped moving, the driver pulled a lanyard to release the shackles and drove...
Share this story Every flying boat is a compromise between two incompatible shapes. To get off the water you want a deep hull, to keep the propellers clear of spray, and a wing sitting at a high angle so it will unstick. To fly efficiently you want neither of those...
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