Share this story For four years Ukraine has fought an air war essentially blind above a certain altitude, relying on ground-based radar that cannot see over the horizon and cannot move quickly when it is targeted. On 5 September the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence...
Share this story A single helicopter arriving at a mountain airfield in Styria is not usually news. This one is, because it is the twelfth, and twelve is a third of the way through the largest helicopter recapitalisation the Austrian armed forces have ever attempted....
Share this story The hard part of hypersonics is not going fast. It is going fast often enough to learn anything. Flight tests above Mach 5 are rare, enormously expensive and frequently one-shot. A programme might get a handful of attempts across a decade, and if two...
Share this story FLY91 has six aeroplanes. On Thursday it ordered forty more. The Goa-based regional carrier signed a firm order for 40 ATR 72-600 turboprops at a ceremony in New Delhi on 3 September, in a deal valued at roughly $1 billion at list prices. It is the...
Share this story On Saturday morning a squadron of F-35Bs taxied onto the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, on the Seto Inland Sea, and took over a job the US Marine Corps has been rotating through Japan since 1980. The unit is Marine Fighter Attack...
Share this story The United States Air Force has lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reapers since the Iran war began. That is roughly a quarter of the fleet, gone, in about a year. The service has now decided that the answer is not a better Reaper. It is a cheaper one — and...
Share this story On 5 January 2024 a door plug departed an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX at around 16,000 feet, leaving a hole in the side of a full airliner. Nobody was killed, which was luck rather than design. The Federal Aviation Administration eventually...
Share this story The Royal Air Force has a motto that was chosen in 1912, long before anyone had a serious plan for getting there: per ardua ad astra, through adversity to the stars. On 1 September 2026 the RAF quietly took the astra part literally. Air Command, the...
Share this story The Fighter Collection at Duxford flies aeroplanes that most museums would bolt to a plinth. Late last month one of the rarest of them had an engine problem on a maintenance check flight and ended up on its belly in a field northwest of Royston. The...
Share this story Four fighters is not an air force. Four fighters, three tankers, two airlifters and three hundred people who can put all of that down on a foreign runway and have it flying again the next morning — that is an air force, compressed. On 8...
Share this story Almost every retired airliner ends the same way. It sits in a desert or a Turkish boneyard, the engines come off, the useful parts are stripped, and what is left goes through a shredder. TC-JDL got a second life instead. The Airbus A340-311 was cut...
Share this story Claims about strikes deep inside Russia are cheap. Verification is not. This week the satellites caught up with two of them, and the pictures are unusually specific about what Ukrainian drones actually hit. At Millerovo air base in Rostov Oblast,...
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