Share this story The gates opened at Farnborough this morning. For the next five days a stretch of Hampshire tarmac becomes the place where the aerospace industry finds out what everyone else has been building, and where roughly a hundred thousand people stand in a...
Share this story From the air it looks like a filing system for aeroplanes. Row upon row of them, wingtip to wingtip, laid out across ten square kilometres of Arizona desert in lines so straight they look drawn. Bombers here. Fighters there. Transports over there....
Share this story France is the only member of NATO that delivers part of its nuclear deterrent from a fighter cockpit, and the only one whose deterrent answers to nobody outside Paris. Last week two French Rafales flew alongside German Eurofighters in the first joint...
Share this story Earlier this year the RAF’s first E-7 Wedgetail spent a period at a Wiltshire airfield most people have never heard of, having its systems activated and its radar calibrated, before it was allowed anywhere near an operational squadron. That is...
Share this story On 9 July, eight Iranian ballistic missiles were fired at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. All eight were intercepted. Nobody was hurt, nothing was damaged, and the incident barely registered outside the region. Eight days later the same base was...
Share this story There is an aircraft in most modern strike packages that carries no bombs, has no air-to-air kills, and will never appear on a recruiting poster. It is usually converted from something else, it is frequently ugly, and if it fails, everyone else dies....
Share this story Every bomb ever built before 1944 was designed to hit the thing it was aimed at. Barnes Wallis built two that were designed to land next to it. This was not a compromise or an admission that bombing was inaccurate. It was the entire principle. Wallis...
Share this story When Iranian missiles struck an air base in eastern Jordan last Friday and killed American servicemen, the base was identified in every report by its name: Muwaffaq Salti. Almost nobody outside Jordan knows who that was. He was a first lieutenant in...
Share this story Militarily, Suez worked. In six days, Anglo-French air power destroyed the Egyptian Air Force largely on the ground, paratroops took an airfield, Royal Marines made the first helicopter assault in the history of warfare, and the invasion force held...
Share this story Everything a combat pilot knows about dropping a bomb assumes air. Thick air, at sensible altitudes, where wings generate predictable lift, engines produce rated thrust, and a weapon released at a known speed follows a known arc to the ground. In May...
Partagez cet article. Dimanche soir, un journaliste présent à la base aérienne d'Andrews a posé une question directe au président Trump : l'avion qatari qu'il utilise actuellement comme Air Force One n'est pas équipé de systèmes antimissiles, alors pourquoi l'utilise-t-il ? La réponse a confirmé ce que les autorités aéronautiques et de sécurité….
Share this story At 2005 on 17 May 1987, the guided missile frigate USS Stark was told that an Iraqi aircraft had left the mainland and was heading south down the Persian Gulf. This was not alarming. Iraqi aircraft did this most nights, hunting tankers carrying...
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