Spain’s First Kill Over Romania

Spain’s First Kill Over Romania

Share this story At 04:44 on Sunday morning, a Romanian radar operator watched a small, slow-moving return cross the Prut and slide into national airspace from Moldova, roughly 24 kilometres north of Galați. Seventeen minutes later it no longer existed.The...
La foto pubblicitaria che ha ucciso la Valchiria

La foto pubblicitaria che ha ucciso la Valchiria

Share this story It was supposed to be a photograph. Five gleaming aircraft, all powered by the same company’s engines, tucked into tight formation over the California desert for a publicity shot. Twenty minutes later, two of them were falling out of the sky,...
Concordski: The Day the Soviet SST Fell

Concordski: The Day the Soviet SST Fell

Share this story The West called it “Concordski,” half in mockery. It flew two months before Concorde, looked almost identical, and carried the pride of the entire Soviet aerospace industry on its needle nose. On 3 June 1973, in front of a quarter of a...
Colonel Toon: The Ace Who Never Was

Colonel Toon: The Ace Who Never Was

Share this story He had thirteen American kills, a colonel’s rank, and a name that made young U.S. pilots go quiet: Colonel Toon. He was North Vietnam’s deadliest ace, the ghost every Navy flier feared meeting over Haiphong. There was only one problem with...
Il Pentagono vuole laser volanti

Il Pentagono vuole laser volanti

Share this story Cheap drones have humbled expensive air defenses for years now. The Pentagon’s answer keeps coming back to the same idea: a weapon that fires light, costs pennies a shot, and never runs out of magazine. This week a senior Defense Department...