Share this story The U.S. military has fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iran in four weeks of war. That number — buried in a Military Times report on March 27 — has set off alarm bells inside the Pentagon. Not because the campaign isn’t working....
Share this story Photographers watching the B-2 Spirits taxi out for another Iran mission on March 25 noticed something odd. Rows of white rectangular patches — uniformly sized, black-bordered — running along the leading edges of both wings. On two separate aircraft....
Share this story In U.S. defence procurement, hitting your cost target is newsworthy. Beating it significantly is almost unheard of. Yet that is exactly what Air Force officials are claiming about the Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme — the effort to build...
Share this story At Edwards Air Force Base in February 2026, an F-22 Raptor pilot did something no fighter pilot has done before in an official U.S. Air Force exercise: he commanded a drone wingman in combat-like conditions. From his cockpit, using a specialist...
Share this story Poland does not make fighter jets. It hasn’t produced a combat aircraft in decades. But right now, Warsaw is knocking on the door of one of the most exclusive clubs in aerospace — the Global Combat Air Programme — and asking to be let in. What...
Share this story For nearly two weeks starting February 27, 2026, something almost unprecedented happened in the Taiwan Strait: nothing. Chinese warplanes stayed home. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense logged zero PLAAF activity on 11 out of 13 consecutive...
Share this story Six names. That is what the U.S. Air Force released on March 14, 2026, two days after a KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in Iraq. Maj. John Klinner. Capt. Ariana Savino. Tech. Sgt. Ashley Pruitt. Capt. Seth Koval. Capt. Curtis Angst. Tech. Sgt. Tyler...
Share this story They looked like canned food, Iranian villagers said. Small cylindrical objects scattered across the streets and fields of Kafari, a village on the southern outskirts of Shiraz. Within hours, Bellingcat had identified them: BLU-91/B scatterable...
Share this story The video is grainy, shot from the ground near Chabahar — a port city on Iran’s remote eastern coast. A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet screams low overhead, its 20mm cannon blazing. Then a streak of smoke rises from below. The aircraft breaks...
Share this story On March 24, 2026, a video emerged from Ukraine that stopped aviation watchers in their tracks. A Soviet-era piston trainer, the Yak-52 — designed in the 1970s to teach student pilots basic aerobatics — had just downed a Russian Geran-2 kamikaze drone...
Share this story Related QuestionsWhat is DARPA?DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research and development arm of the US Department of Defense. Founded in 1958 in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik, it funds high-risk,...
How high can a fighter jet fly? Edge of Space flight Experience Edge of Space flight costs Share this story Related QuestionsWhat is the edge of space?The edge of space is commonly defined as the Karman line, an altitude of 100 kilometres (about 62...
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