Share this story For three days in July, something kept flying over the most sensitive fighter base in Australia, and nobody could say what, or whose. Between July 11 and 13, multiple unidentified drones slipped into restricted airspace above RAAF Base Williamtown in...
Share this story The number landed like a dropped bomb: roughly 45 MQ-9 Reapers gone, about a quarter of the entire fleet, at a cost the Pentagon puts north of $1.3 billion for that one weapon system alone. That is the tally the Washington Post reported on August 13,...
Share this story The image is almost too strange to be true: the President of the United States, having boarded Air Force One in front of the world’s cameras, quietly slipping back off the jet and into an airport catering truck — then flying home on a different...
Share this story South Korea has built its own stealth-shaped fighter. Now it wants its own long reach to go with it. On August 12, Korea Aerospace Industries and Hyundai Rotem signed a memorandum of understanding at KAI’s Sacheon headquarters to jointly develop...
Share this story Nine little red jets, wingtips almost touching, trailing white smoke across a summer sky. For generations of Canadians that image is the air show. After the 2026 season, it changes forever: the Snowbirds are retiring the CT-114 Tutor, the tiny jet...
Share this story For a week in mid-August, the skies over Selangor turned into a laboratory of contrasts: French delta-wing fighters flown by Indian pilots, sparring with Russian-built Flankers and American Hornets in Malaysian colours. Exercise Udara Shakti 2026 put...
Share this story Jakarta’s traffic is the stuff of legend — the kind of gridlock where a five-mile trip can eat two hours. Now an Indonesian operator wants to fly over it. On August 12, Whitesky Aviation signed a memorandum of understanding for 60 electric air taxis,...
Share this story Air-to-air kills have been the rarest currency of the war over Ukraine. Both sides fly at the edges of each other’s missile range, lob long-shots, and turn for home. So when Moscow claims a single fighter dropped two enemy jets in one pass, it is...
Share this story On the morning of August 14, 2026, NATO fighter jets on Baltic Air Policing duty scrambled over eastern Latvia and shot down a drone that had crossed into the alliance’s airspace. The Latvian military said the aircraft had strayed into the...
Share this story India has just fired the starting gun on one of the biggest military aircraft competitions in the world. On August 12, 2026, its Defence Ministry issued a formal request for proposals for sixty new medium transport aircraft, opening a contest worth...
Share this story When Air Force One lifted off from Ankara after the NATO summit on July 8, 2026, the whole world assumed it knew who was on board. The world was wrong. According to a Washington Post investigation revealed on August 10, President Trump publicly...
Share this story A routine flight over central Texas ended in tragedy on August 12, 2026, when a U.S. Army AH-64E Apache crashed near the town of Salado, killing both crew members aboard. The helicopter came down at around 1:30 in the afternoon, and the wreckage...
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