Share this story Russia is taking its export fighter to the Egyptian coast next week, and it is bringing something it has never shown anyone. Rostec, the Russian state defence conglomerate, says the Su-57E will fly at the El Alamein International Airshow from 8 to 10...
Share this story Hypersonic weapons have a problem that has nothing to do with physics. They work. They are also so expensive that nobody can afford to fire very many of them, which in a serious war is the same thing as not having them. On 1 September the Air Force...
Share this story On 1 September, a formation of very old, very large aeroplanes settled onto a runway in the Northern Territory of Australia, 4,000 kilometres from the nearest American base and comfortably beyond the reach of most of China’s missile force. That was...
Share this story For years the standard defence of the F-35 went like this: yes, the development was a nightmare, but the unit price kept falling, and eventually a stealth fighter would cost about what a fourth-generation jet costs. That argument has now run out of...
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...
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