Share this story The United States Air Force Thunderbirds will perform over the National Mall on July 4th for the first time in the team’s 73-year history. The flyover anchors what organisers are calling the most ambitious aviation spectacle in American history...
Share this story A naval drone that costs roughly $200,000 can now launch its own swarm of first-person-view attack drones while underway at sea. The Sea Baby unmanned surface vessel — a remotely piloted maritime platform with a 1,500-kilometre range — has evolved...
Share this story A $17.9 million armed overwatch aircraft is a total loss because a trainee pilot turned the wrong valve during a training sortie. The Air Force Special Operations Command investigation into the October 2025 crash of an OA-1K Skyraider II has revealed...
Share this story An F-15EX Eagle II has touched down at Kadena Air Base. The newest variant of Boeing’s legendary air superiority fighter landed on Okinawa’s most strategically important airfield on June 29, returning to the Pacific’s frontline base...
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...
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