Share this story At two o’clock in the afternoon on 6 October 1973, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, the sky over the Suez Canal filled with Egyptian jets. More than 200 of them crossed the canal at low level and fanned out across the Sinai,...
Share this story On New Year’s Eve 1934, engineers in the machine laboratory of ETH Zurich switched on a new wind tunnel for the first time. Next door stood something even more unusual: a tunnel built to blow air past models at twice the speed of sound, in a...
Share this story Shortly after takeoff from RAAF Base Amberley on 18 July 2006, the crew of an Australian F-111 heard something no F-111 crew in Australia had heard in thirty years. The control tower was on the radio: their left main wheel had just fallen off. What...
Share this story Five days after the cockpit attack on flydubai flight FZ1073, the picture of the man accused of carrying it out has turned darker. According to two Israeli officials who spoke to Reuters, the Omani first officer told UAE interrogators that he planned...
Share this story India wants 60 new military transport aircraft, and it wants most of them made in India. Lockheed Martin has now said exactly how it would do that: build a dozen C-130J Super Hercules in Georgia, and the other 48 in India with Tata. The offer, set out...
Share this story Four months ago, Germany walked out of FCAS, the sixth-generation fighter it was supposed to build with France and Spain. Now Berlin is quietly looking at the other side of the Channel. According to Politico, German and British officials have begun...
Share this story A Cessna Caravan is about as unthreatening as a military aircraft gets: one turboprop engine, fixed landing gear and a cruising speed of well under 200 knots. On Friday, one of them was doing a routine maritime patrol over Scarborough Shoal when a...
Share this story It was around one o’clock on Sunday morning when residents on the edge of Maykop, in Russia’s Republic of Adygea, heard the drone engines. Then came the air defence fire, and then the explosions. By daylight, Ukraine’s Security...
Share this story On Sunday morning the bombers simply left. One after another, the B-1B Lancers that had spent months flying out of RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire lined up, took off and pointed west. By the end of the day, at least three of them were already on the...
Share this story Most people picture an air ambulance as a helicopter landing on a motorway. But when a patient is hundreds or thousands of kilometres from the hospital they need, or stuck in a foreign country after an accident, the job goes to a jet. Air-ambulance...
Share this story In early October 2026, Ukrainian outlets including Militarnyi relayed a claim that a Ukrainian Air Force Mirage 2000-5F had shot down a Russian cruise missile with its 30mm DEFA cannon rather than a missile. The claim first appeared on the X account...
Share this story A fighter jet is never more vulnerable than when it is parked. In the air it can manoeuvre, climb, jam and fire back. On the ground, with its pilot asleep and its tanks being filled, it is a very expensive target that cannot move. For most of the jet...
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