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...
Share this story Germany’s fighter question has moved from the chancelleries to the boardrooms. Executives from Airbus are set to sit down with BAE Systems to explore how the European group could join the GCAP fighter programme, the Global Combat Air Programme...
Share this story Over Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on 15 June 2012, a US Navy photographer captured an image most people would rather not think about. The canopy of the Blue Angels’ left wingman’s F/A-18 Hornet sat approximately 18 inches from the...
Share this story For half a century, fighter designers sold air forces a simple promise: kill the enemy before he can see you. Build a big radar, hang radar-guided missiles under the wings, and the dogfight becomes a relic. The Navy started developing the AIM-7...
Share this story Look at the tactical display of a modern F-16 and you will see aircraft its own radar has never touched. A contact a hundred miles away, already labelled hostile. A friendly four-ship on the far side of a mountain range. A tanker orbit, a ship, a...
Share this story Electrician’s Mate Orville Bethard thought the worst of 25 October 1944 was behind him. His escort carrier, USS St. Lo, had just survived more than two hours under fire from Japanese battleships off Samar. The enemy fleet had turned away....
Share this story At 05:30 on 25 October 1983, the first Army Rangers stepped out of a Hercules over the south-western tip of Grenada. They jumped from about 500 feet, low enough to stay under the anti-aircraft fire. Below them lay a half-finished runway, blocked with...
Share this story Shortly after noon on Saturday, 24 October 2026, a small plane over Palm Beach, Florida, picked up an unwanted escort. A NORAD F-16 intercepted the general aviation aircraft at about 12:20 p.m. local time after it flew into the FAA Temporary Flight...
Share this story About 200 people gathered at 17 Wing Winnipeg on Saturday, 24 October 2026, to say goodbye to an old friend. Backdropped by a grey CC-130H Hercules, the Royal Canadian Air Force held a retirement ceremony for the last of its H-model Hercules, the...
Share this story Shortly before midnight on 14 May 1982, Royal Navy Sea Kings clattered in low over the dark, wind-scoured grass of a small island north of West Falkland. Out of them climbed about 45 men of D Squadron, 22 Special Air Service, each loaded with mortar...
Share this story In the last week of January 1991, American AWACS crews over the Gulf watched something nobody had predicted. Iraqi jets were taking off, staying low and running hard, not towards the coalition and not towards friendly Jordan, but east, towards Iran....
Share this story On 10 January 1956, ground crews in Turkey and West Germany let go of the first nine of hundreds of giant plastic balloons. Each one carried a camera gondola about the size of a refrigerator. The cover story said they were studying the weather. In...
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