Share this story On Monday in Athens, Greece signed for three Embraer KC-390 Millennium transports, with options for three more, to replace a Hellenic Air Force C-130H fleet that has been flying since the 1970s. Within hours the comment sections filled with the same...
Inside a MANPADS: the gripstock, the argon-cooled seeker, the soft launch, proportional navigation, two-colour flare rejection and laser beam-riders, and how aircraft defend.
Only ten Short Belfasts were built. The RAF named each after a giant, retired them after a decade, then chartered them back for the Falklands and the Gulf.
On 2 November 2026, the first HH-60W Jolly Green II arrived at Joint Base Andrews, the first of 26 meant to replace the capital’s UH-1N Hueys.
On 2 November 2026, a Hungarian Gripen escorted Wizz Air flight W6 4302 into Budapest after a bomb threat. Nothing was found; four more flights were targeted the next day.
On 3 November 2026 Saab revealed its own family of AI agents, saying one autonomously controlled a Gripen E in beyond-visual-range combat scenarios.
In July 1965 Commander Jeremiah Denton’s A-6 Intruder went down near Thanh Hoa. Ten months later, paraded before a Japanese TV camera, he blinked T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse code. Now a US Navy destroyer bears his name.
On Halloween, Lockheed Martin posted a nine-second Skunk Works teaser: an eye in the dark and the line “You can’t see what’s coming.” The company has not said what it means. Here is what is known, and the projects it could point to.
Share this story The certificate that makes a pilot legally employable arrives at 250 flight hours. The certificate a United States airline is required to hire arrives at 1,500. Between those two numbers sits a gap of 1,250 hours that nobody teaches you, nobody...
Share this story The cart is stowed, the lights are down, and the cabin crew member strapped into the jumpseat a metre from your knees has gone oddly still. Back flat against the seat. Feet together. Hands pushed under the thighs, palms up. Eyes open, looking at...
Share this story Athens signed the paperwork on Monday, and with it the Hellenic Air Force finally got an answer to a question it had been dodging for most of a decade: what replaces the Hercules? The answer is Brazilian, routed through Lisbon. Greece has ordered...
How an air-launched ballistic missile works: drop, ignition, ballistic arc and terminal dive, from Skybolt and the C-5 Minuteman drop to Kinzhal, China’s H-6N missile and Israel’s Rampage.
A jet breathes air; a rocket carries its own oxidiser. That one difference explains why rockets work in space and why jets are far more efficient in the air.
Fighter radomes must be nearly invisible to radar yet survive rain, hail, lightning and Mach 2 air. Here is how they work, and why noses rarely match.
The Lockheed Vega, a wooden monoplane first flown on 4 July 1927, carried Wilkins over the Arctic, Earhart across the Atlantic and Wiley Post around the world.
Kelly Johnson’s Skunk Works built the XP-80 Lulu-Belle in 143 days. It first flew on 8 January 1944 and became the P-80 Shooting Star, the jet fighter that went to war in Korea.
Drones over Jersey Airport on 30 and 31 October 2026 stopped seven inbound flights from landing. The Chief Minister called it deliberate and unlawful.