Share this story On a normal Friday, Taiwan’s airports are among the busiest in East Asia. On Friday, 23 October 2026, most of the island simply stopped, and the flights stopped with it.Typhoon Champi, at one point a super typhoon and one of the strongest storms...
Share this story A carrier fighter is only as good as the deck it lands on, and India has bought a fighter designed for somebody else’s deck. Now the Indian Navy has started finding out exactly what that means.Defence sources told the news agency ANI, as...
Share this story Iran built Eagle 44 so that its warplanes could ride out an air war inside a mountain. In 2026, the mountain got its test. Now satellite images suggest the diggers never really stopped.Imagery taken by Planet Labs on 29 September 2026 and published by...
Share this story Some days the hardest part of flight training is the landing. On Thursday evening, 22 October 2026, two U.S. Air Force pilots in a T-6A Texan II decided, with expert advice from the ground, that the safest way to finish their flight was not to land at...
Share this story Counting aircraft from orbit is a strange way to follow a weapons programme, but with China it is often the only way. On 5 October 2026 a commercial satellite passed over Xi’an-Yanliang airfield in Shaanxi province and photographed four KJ-3000...
Share this story Bombers are supposed to be the ones being hunted. The U.S. Air Force is now asking, in writing, whether they could do some of the hunting.The service’s long-term fighter force structure report, sent to Congress last week and first reported by...
Share this story For twenty years the F-35 has been bought the way most people buy groceries: one lot at a time, haggling at the checkout. On Thursday, 22 October 2026, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin announced they want to switch to a subscription.The two sides...
Share this story For seven years the Thanh Hoa Bridge simply refused to fall. American aircraft flew more than 870 sorties against the “Dragon’s Jaw” south of Hanoi and lost 11 aircraft doing it. Then, in the spring of 1972, a handful of Phantom...
Share this story At 22,000 ft (about 6,700 m), landing gear is supposed to be folded away and forgotten. So when photographer Ján Kolárik pointed his lens at a US Air Force C-5 Galaxy crossing Slovakia, he caught something genuinely odd: one of the giant...
Share this story A grey Super Hornet over the Mojave, blue-banded test rounds under its wings, and a first for US naval aviation. On 14 October 2026, an aviation photographer caught a US Navy F/A-18F from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 31 over Ridgecrest,...
Share this story For 44 years the Frecce Tricolori have painted the Italian sky from the cockpit of a single-engined Aermacchi. Last week, at Leonardo’s plant at Venegono, near Varese, their successor rolled into daylight: the first M-346 built for Italy’s...
Share this story For twelve days in October, the French military rehearsed exactly one scenario in the roadstead of Toulon: how to protect France’s largest naval base. Somewhere in the middle of that rehearsal, someone else’s drones came to watch. On...
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