Share this story A Reaper does not sneak. It orbits. For twenty hours at a stretch it flies long, patient racetracks over somebody else’s country at the speed of a fast train, hauling a sensor turret and a pair of Hellfires, in full view of anything with a radar...
The R-360 Neptune was built to sink ships. Now the Long Neptune hits refineries and airbases 1,000 km away. How Ukraine’s cruise missile works.
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Nevada, White Sands, China Lake and Utah: the desert ranges where America tests its weapons, and why they are no longer big enough.
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In 1985 France quit the five-nation fighter that became the Eurofighter. A year later the Rafale A flew to Mach 1.3 on its first flight.
Trump says the Pentagon will build a “super range” in Montana to test hypersonics, autonomous weapons and electronic warfare. No site, cost or timeline yet.
The FAA is bringing back its Flight Deck Training program, letting air traffic controllers ride in the cockpit of airline, GA and military flights.
Saab has presented the first GlobalEye for the Swedish Air Force. The S 106 fills the gap left when Sweden gave its radar planes to Ukraine.
The Snowbirds fly their final home closer in the CT-114 Tutor at 15 Wing Moose Jaw on 16 October, livestreamed from noon. The Grey Cup flypast follows on 15 November.
SWISS has retired A340-300 HB-JMB after 23 years and 110,000 flight hours. It flew to Twente to be dismantled. Three A340s remain.
France will build the Rafale’s successor, the ACF, as a national programme. Its air chief also warned of a fleet of just 184 combat jets.
Ukraine’s Navy says Neptune missiles destroyed six Su-34M bombers at Borisoglebsk. Satellite images show four burned out and two badly damaged.
After Pearl Harbor, the Army called in Hollywood to make Lockheed’s Burbank plant vanish from the air. Canvas houses, feather trees and laundry on the line covered a factory building P-38s, and Boeing built an even bigger fake town over its Seattle plant.