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….
Le 10 mars 2026, plus de 400 clients, partenaires et dirigeants du secteur aéronautique se sont réunis dans un nouveau hall de production à Bordeaux-Mérignac lorsque Dassault Aviation a dévoilé le Falcon 10X, le jet d'affaires le plus grand, avec la plus grande autonomie et le plus avancé technologiquement...
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...
An S7 Airlines Boeing 737-800 slid off the end of the runway at Mirny Airport in Russia’s Sakha Republic on June 30, coming to rest in mud beyond the paved surface. All 173 passengers and six crew members walked away without injury. But the incident — classified...
The world’s largest international maritime exercise is underway. Rim of the Pacific 2026 — the 30th iteration of a series that began in 1971 — kicked off on June 24 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. It will run through July 31, and the numbers alone...
A Bengaluru startup has just thrown India’s hat into the ring of autonomous combat aviation. Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace (FWDA) has unveiled the FWD Supreme — an AI-piloted fighter concept designed to fly, fight, and make tactical decisions without a...
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