Share this story The drone had already been shot down. That is the detail that makes this loss different from the others. On Saturday, in northern Iraq, a US service member was killed during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance recovered from a downed...
Share this story Most combat aircraft announced at airshows are defined by what they carry. Israel Aerospace Industries spent Monday introducing one defined by what it broadcasts. ELLYON has no bomb bay and no missile rails. Its weapon is a wideband electronically...
Share this story Two hours out of Rome, somewhere over the south-east of England, Alaska Airlines flight 181 turned around. The Boeing 787-9 had left Fiumicino at 15:45 on Sunday afternoon bound for Seattle, climbed to 34,000 feet and headed north-west across France....
Share this story Sweden is giving Ukraine a fighter fleet. At Farnborough this week, the head of the Swedish Air Force explained how Sweden intends to avoid ending up smaller as a result. Major General Jonas Wikman told Breaking Defense that a further batch of twelve...
Share this story In December 2011, an Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767 landed at London Gatwick and did not leave. It was impounded over unpaid debts, and with it went the last direct air link between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom — a route the airline had flown since April...
Share this story When the Royal Air Force retired its last Reaper in the autumn of 2025, it did so with a gap in the middle of its capability. The replacement was already flying — the Protector RG Mk 1, sixteen of them on order — but it could not yet legally drop or...
Share this story Skunk Works and FalconWorks are the two most secretive advanced-projects shops in Western aerospace. Lockheed Martin’s built the U-2, the SR-71 and the F-117. BAE Systems’ is the British equivalent, the place where the awkward, classified...
Share this story The first big order of Farnborough 2026 landed before most of the stands had finished setting up. Riyadh Air, the Saudi carrier that flew its first paying passenger barely three weeks ago, spent Monday morning committing to 34 more widebody aircraft...
Partagez cet article. La maquette exposée sous les projecteurs sur le stand d'Anduril à Farnborough lundi matin ne ressemble à aucun appareil actuellement en service dans l'armée américaine. Elle possède deux énormes rotors basculants, un fuselage en forme de larme allongée, et….
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...
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….
Partagez cet article. Tous les débats sur les avions de combat autonomes finissent par aboutir à la même question, et elle n'est pas d'ordre technique. Il s'agit de savoir si le pilote fera confiance à l'appareil qui évolue sous son aile. Frank Kendall, qui dirigeait l'US Air Force à l'époque...
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