Share this story The engines Turkey needs for its fifth-generation fighter are on the way — and Washington just wrote the permission slip. The Trump administration has notified Congress of a more than $700 million sale of General Electric F110 turbofan engines for...
Share this story The world’s most ambitious sixth-generation fighter programme just survived its biggest political test. The United Kingdom has committed £8.6 billion over the next four years to the Global Combat Air Programme, as part of its new £298 billion...
A C-130J Super Hercules at a forward operating location. The Hercules has served as the backbone of tactical airlift for seven decades, but the Air Force is now planning its eventual replacement. (U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons) Somewhere in the western Pacific,...
Un KC-390 Millennium (FAB 2858) de l'armée de l'air brésilienne exposé lors des Journées de l'OTAN 2023 en République tchèque. Cet appareil a rapidement gagné en popularité auprès des forces aériennes européennes. (Wikimedia Commons) En février 2026, Embraer et Northrop Grumman ont signé un protocole d'accord….
Un MV-22B Osprey du Corps des Marines à bord d'un navire d'assaut amphibie de l'US Navy. Cet aéronef à rotors basculants a remplacé le CH-46 Sea Knight pour les assauts aériens et le C-2 Greyhound pour le ravitaillement en vol depuis les porte-avions. (US Navy / Wikimedia Commons) Le Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey était censé….
Somewhere in China’s vast defence-industrial complex, a missile is being built that could fundamentally change the arithmetic of air combat over the Pacific. The PL-16 — Beijing’s next-generation beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile — has never been...
Kelly Johnson a conçu le F-104 Starfighter dans un seul but : monter vite, voler haut et abattre les bombardiers soviétiques avant qu’ils n’atteignent les villes américaines. L’ingénieur de Lockheed a mené une enquête auprès des pilotes de chasse de la guerre de Corée en 1951 et a conclu que ce qu’ils souhaitaient, ce n’était pas un autre avion lourd….
On the afternoon of 6 April 1965, test pilot Roland “Bee” Beamont was having lunch at a pub near Boscombe Down when the BBC news bulletin came through the radio. Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, midway through his Budget Speech in the House of...
In September 1967, an ungainly four-engine turboprop lumbered off the runway at Nha Trang Air Base in South Vietnam. It looked like any other C-130 Hercules — the workhorse cargo plane that had been hauling troops, ammunition, and jeeps across theatre since the early...
Argentina went to war in the Falklands in April 1982 with five air-launched Exocet missiles. Five. That was the entire stock — France had delivered the AM39 variant along with a handful of Super Étendard strike fighters just months before the conflict began, and the...
On the morning of April 18, 1943, sixteen P-38 Lightning fighters took off from Fighter Two airstrip on Guadalcanal and turned west over the Solomon Sea. Their mission was not to engage enemy formations or escort bombers. It was to kill one man: Admiral Isoroku...
The world’s largest international maritime exercise is underway. Rim of the Pacific 2026 — the 30th iteration of a series that began in 1971 — kicked off on June 24 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. It will run through July 31, and the numbers alone...
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