Share this story On the Loire estuary in western France stands one of the largest structures the Second World War left behind: the former U-boat base of Saint-Nazaire. Built by Germany in 1941 and 1942, it sheltered submarines that attacked Allied convoys in the...
Share this story In the early hours of 24 October 2026, UTC, a single B-52H Stratofortress using the callsign HUSH 11 left Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and pointed its nose at the Atlantic. Flight trackers listening to its HF position reports watched it...
Share this story It took a string of defence ministers on both sides of the Pacific and a little more than two years, but the AIM-120 AMRAAM is finally getting a Japanese address. On Wednesday 28 October in Cebu, in the Philippines, Japan’s Defense Minister...
Share this story Everyone who flies knows the scene. Your group is called, you shuffle down the jet bridge, and then you stop. Somewhere ahead, someone is wrestling a roll-aboard into an overhead bin, and forty people wait behind them in a single-file aisle. Boarding...
Share this story The Bay of Pigs is remembered as a landing that failed on the beach. It was lost in the air. Over five days in April 1961, a handful of Cuban pilots in old British piston fighters and American-built jet trainers beat a CIA air force, sank the ships...
Share this story The F-47 has not flown yet, but the US Air Force already knows where it wants to prove the jet is ready for war, and how much it is willing to spend on the buildings. A presolicitation notice posted in late October lays out an “F-47 Future...
Share this story On the road between St. Louis and Mascoutah, Illinois, drivers recently passed something that looked like a manta ray in a white bedsheet. It was the US Navy’s second MQ-25A Stingray, wings folded and fuselage shrink-wrapped, riding a flatbed...
Share this story Blackbeard has a new ride. On Monday, 26 October 2026, Castelion announced that it has received a contract modification under its existing work with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to begin integrating its Blackbeard hypersonic weapon on the...
Share this story Helicopters own the piers of Lower Manhattan. On Monday morning, 26 October 2026, a small yellow airplane with ordinary fixed wings joined them. Electra flew its hybrid-electric EL2 demonstrator into Downtown Skyport, the heliport on the East River,...
Share this story On the morning of 26 October 1940, a bare-metal fighter with no paint and not even a name sat waiting at Mines Field, the small Los Angeles airfield that would one day become LAX. Freelance test pilot Vance Breese climbed in, started the Allison V-12...
Share this story The touchdown looked normal. Then the nose swung left, and a Jet2 Boeing 737-800 rolled off the edge of the runway and onto the grass at Birmingham Airport, while people filming the landing could be heard reacting in disbelief. It happened on Sunday...
Share this story Two weeks of allied air combat training began on Monday in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula. South Korea and the United States opened the Freedom Flag exercise on 26 October 2026, a two-week combined air drill that the Republic of Korea Air Force...
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