Share this story Somewhere over Southern California, instrumented “red” fighters played the enemy, airliners went about their business and ships moved at sea. Watching them at the same time, from long range, was not a big radar jet full of operators. It...
Share this story A hypersonic glide vehicle gives a defender very little time and even less certainty. It flies inside the atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound and can change course on the way in. Europe wants an interceptor designed specifically for...
Share this story For six years, China’s reusable spaceplane has been one of spaceflight’s best-kept secrets. It launches on a rocket, stays in orbit for months, releases small objects, lands on a runway in the desert, and Beijing says almost nothing about...
Share this story Russia’s jet-powered Geran-4 drones were built to outrun the cheap defences that tamed the propeller Shahed. On Monday 27 October, Ukraine’s General Staff published a number that suggests the gap is starting to close: over the past three...
Share this story It took a string of defence ministers on both sides of the Pacific and a little more than two years, but the AIM-120 AMRAAM is finally getting a Japanese address. On Wednesday 28 October in Cebu, in the Philippines, Japan’s Defense Minister...
Share this story The photographs look like any official handover: dark suits, a red rope barrier, a framed certificate held up for the cameras. Behind the smiling delegation, though, stands a grey-and-white fighter with the Ethiopian tricolour on its twin tails. On...
Share this story There are two numbers no airline pilot wants to say on the radio in the same breath: one landing gear leg that will not come down, and minutes of fuel left. On Sunday evening, 25 October, the crew of United Airlines flight 1854 dealt with both over...
Share this story On the road between St. Louis and Mascoutah, Illinois, drivers recently passed something that looked like a manta ray in a white bedsheet. It was the US Navy’s second MQ-25A Stingray, wings folded and fuselage shrink-wrapped, riding a flatbed...
Share this story Europe’s best-funded defence start-up has decided the drone war needs a cheaper bullet. On Monday 26 October in Berlin, Helsing unveiled Contra, an AI-controlled air defence system, together with two interceptors of its own: the jet-powered AD-1...
Share this story The US Air Force has a tanker problem, and a Washington think tank has just put a price on fixing it. In a report released on 27 October, the Hudson Institute argues that the Air Force should stop buying the KC-46A Pegasus sooner than planned and...
Share this story The A-10 Thunderbolt II was built to find tanks, not boaters. But in late April 2026, two Warthogs training over central Florida turned their night vision goggles and targeting pods on Lake Arbuckle and helped deputies find a 73-year-old man who had...
Share this story Ukraine’s Air Force is planning to rebuild itself around Western-style aviation wings and multi-type air bases. Yurii Ihnat, head of the Communications Department at Air Force Command, laid out the plan in an interview on RBC-Ukraine’s...
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