Share this story In April 1944 a Japanese submarine left Lorient carrying the plans for the most advanced interceptor in the world. It reached Singapore on 14 July. Twelve days later, on its way home, USS Sawfish sank it off the Philippines. A second boat carrying the...
Share this story In 1954 the Air Ministry wrote a requirement that no aircraft on earth could meet. OR.330 asked for a machine that would cruise at Mach 2.5 at 60,000 feet, be capable of Mach 3, fly 5,754 miles, and penetrate Soviet airspace and come home. Avro won...
Share this story By the summer of 1958 the experimental shop at Hawker’s Kingston works held something very close to a complete aeroplane. The wing was built. The fuselage frames were joined. The undercarriage had been tested, the systems rigged, the wind-tunnel...
Share this story Thomas McGuire wrote the rule himself. Never take a P-38 into a turning fight at low altitude. He put it in a manual the Fifth Air Force distributed to its pilots. On 7 January 1945, at three hundred feet over Negros Island, he broke it deliberately,...
Share this story Britain had been at war for three days. At quarter past six on the morning of 6 September 1939, a radar station on the Essex coast reported unidentified aircraft approaching at high altitude over West Mersea. There were no German aircraft. The plots...
Share this story At an air festival at Mochishche aerodrome outside Novosibirsk in early August, someone photographed a Su-34 that had not been painted yet. Bare factory grey primer, straight out of the shop next door. It is a mundane picture that answers a question...
Share this story Two Queensland companies signed an agreement at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday that, on paper, is unremarkable: a rocket firm and a scramjet firm agreeing to work together. What they are actually proposing is a business almost nobody offers....
Share this story Rosoboronexport says the Su-57 has proven itself in combat, that new export contracts for the Su-57E have been signed, and that deliveries begin this year. It will not say who signed them. Or for how many aircraft. Or for how much. The claim was made...
Share this story Since 25 August, a US Army laser has been burning cartel drones out of the sky over the Rio Grande Valley. Eleven of them in ten days. Each shot costs about three dollars. Military officials told CBS News that drone traffic in the sector has since...
Share this story The video is short, silent and shot from the nose of the drone. A hardened airfield apron slides into frame. Then an aircraft, parked, wings swept forward, with a large white 49 on the intake. Then the picture ends. Ukraine’s Defence...
Share this story Among all the fifth-generation sales theatre at El Alamein this week, the most consequential thing on the ramp is a helicopter that first flew in 1961. Boeing has handed the Egyptian Air Force the first five of twelve CH-47F Chinooks, with the...
Share this story Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone gave the number and then did the arithmetic out loud, which is the part that lands. “Seven hundred takeoffs in two years,” NATO’s most senior military officer said at the Taranto Naval Base in southern...
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