Share this story For as long as the United States has had an independent Air Force, defending its airfields against attack from the sky has been somebody else’s job. Specifically, the Army’s.That arrangement is quietly collapsing, and at the Air, Space and...
Share this story A Russian drone crossed into Lithuanian airspace overnight on 15 September, and NATO fighters shot it down. That part has happened before — by the alliance air commander’s own count, at least six times now.What is new is that the officer...
Share this story Electronic warfare has always been an expensive aircraft’s privilege. The jamming pod on an EA-18G Growler is a large, power-hungry, individually precious thing, hung on an aircraft that costs tens of millions of dollars and is flown by people...
Share this story Until now, Anduril’s YFQ-44A Fury has been an air-to-air aircraft. It carries AIM-120 AMRAAMs, it flies alongside crewed fighters, and in July it became the first American collaborative combat aircraft to fire a missile in anger at a test...
Share this story Three Mitsubishi F-2As landed at Air Force Station Jodhpur this month, and in doing so did something no Japanese fighter had ever done: deploy operationally to an Indian air base.Exercise Veer Guardian 26 runs from 9 to 21 September at Jodhpur and in...
Share this story A Tomahawk leaves a destroyer’s deck, climbs, settles down to a few hundred feet and flies for up to 1,600 kilometres (870 miles) at 880 km/h (550 mph). At the end of that, it is expected to arrive at a specific building. Not a city. A...
Share this story The video is short and very loud. A Boeing 737 is shaking itself half to pieces somewhere over northeastern Iran, and above the heads of the passengers the ceiling is coming apart — long panels of interior lining folding down out of the roofline and...
Share this story Look at the belly of the aircraft below. There is a cockpit on it. No glass, no pilot, no hole in the airframe. It is paint. A Royal Canadian Air Force CF-188 Hornet from below. The dark shape behind the radome is not a window. It is paint. Photo:...
Share this story Somewhere over Africa this spring, a four-engine turboprop that first flew in 1954 rolled its ramp open and pushed a missile out the back. The missile fell clear, unfolded its wings, lit a small turbojet and flew away. Minutes later it was several...
Share this story On the night of 16 December 1943, Bomber Command came home to an England that had disappeared. Radiation fog had closed almost every airfield in the east. Crews who had survived Berlin circled above a white nothing until their tanks ran dry. At RAF...
Share this story On 6 September 1948, John Derry became the first Briton to fly faster than sound, in a de Havilland DH.108. Four years later to the day, on 6 September 1952, he was killed at Farnborough in front of a crowd of a hundred thousand people, along with his...
Share this story The most uncomfortable finding of the whole Ramstein investigation is also the simplest. Nobody broke a rule. The trinational safety commission concluded that the display complied with STANAG 3533, the NATO standard then governing flying displays, and...
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