Share this story On 27 October 1954, a 41-year-old colonel working at Far East Air Forces headquarters in Tokyo was promoted to brigadier general. With that single star, Benjamin O. Davis Jr. became the first African-American general in the United States Air Force, 72...
Share this story Ukraine’s Air Force is planning to rebuild itself around Western-style aviation wings and multi-type air bases. Yurii Ihnat, head of the Communications Department at Air Force Command, laid out the plan in an interview on RBC-Ukraine’s...
Share this story Blackbeard has a new ride. On Monday, 26 October 2026, Castelion announced that it has received a contract modification under its existing work with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to begin integrating its Blackbeard hypersonic weapon on the...
Share this story For more than three hours on Monday afternoon, a Royal Air Force A400M Atlas drew slow, ever-wider circles in the sky over Warminster. The four-engine transport had taken off from MOD Boscombe Down near Amesbury just before 2pm on 26 October 2026, and...
Share this story A Turkish F-16 has released a 2,000 lb bomb that flew itself to its target on a pair of pop-out wings. On 26 October 2026, ASELSAN announced that its KGK-84 winged guidance kit had completed its first qualification range firing from an F-16 at the...
Share this story Three and a half years ago, the US Air Force told Congress it would not buy the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon. On 26 October 2026 it announced that it had done exactly that. The Department of the Air Force has handed Lockheed Martin a...
Share this story On the morning of 1 May 1960, Francis Gary Powers was nearly four hours into a flight across the Soviet Union, cruising far above the reach of Soviet fighters, when he heard a dull thump. The aircraft lurched forward, there was a bright orange flash,...
Share this story Every fighter pilot knows the uneasy moment when the radar warning receiver lights up: someone, somewhere, is looking. Now imagine being tracked with no warning at all. No radar emission to detect, no tone in the headset, nothing for a jammer to...
Share this story On the morning of 26 October 1940, a bare-metal fighter with no paint and not even a name sat waiting at Mines Field, the small Los Angeles airfield that would one day become LAX. Freelance test pilot Vance Breese climbed in, started the Allison V-12...
Share this story At 06:45 on the morning of 26 October 1942, an American scout pilot north of the Santa Cruz Islands found what every carrier admiral in the Pacific was looking for: the flight decks of Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo’s main body. Thirteen minutes...
Share this story Nigeria’s air force has put a new Turkish drone on its shopping list. On Sunday, 25 October 2026, the Nigerian Air Force published an infographic on its official X account listing 12 TUSAŞ Aksungur unmanned combat aircraft among its...
Share this story Two weeks of allied air combat training began on Monday in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula. South Korea and the United States opened the Freedom Flag exercise on 26 October 2026, a two-week combined air drill that the Republic of Korea Air Force...
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