Share this story The United States Air Force Thunderbirds will perform over the National Mall on July 4th for the first time in the team’s 73-year history. The flyover anchors what organisers are calling the most ambitious aviation spectacle in American history...
Share this story A naval drone that costs roughly $200,000 can now launch its own swarm of first-person-view attack drones while underway at sea. The Sea Baby unmanned surface vessel — a remotely piloted maritime platform with a 1,500-kilometre range — has evolved...
Share this story A $17.9 million armed overwatch aircraft is a total loss because a trainee pilot turned the wrong valve during a training sortie. The Air Force Special Operations Command investigation into the October 2025 crash of an OA-1K Skyraider II has revealed...
Share this story An F-15EX Eagle II has touched down at Kadena Air Base. The newest variant of Boeing’s legendary air superiority fighter landed on Okinawa’s most strategically important airfield on June 29, returning to the Pacific’s frontline base...
Share this story The engines Turkey needs for its fifth-generation fighter are on the way — and Washington just wrote the permission slip. The Trump administration has notified Congress of a more than $700 million sale of General Electric F110 turbofan engines for...
Share this story The world’s most ambitious sixth-generation fighter programme just survived its biggest political test. The United Kingdom has committed £8.6 billion over the next four years to the Global Combat Air Programme, as part of its new £298 billion...
A C-130J Super Hercules at a forward operating location. The Hercules has served as the backbone of tactical airlift for seven decades, but the Air Force is now planning its eventual replacement. (U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons) Somewhere in the western Pacific,...
Un KC-390 Millennium (FAB 2858) dell'Aeronautica Militare Brasiliana in mostra al NATO Days 2023 nella Repubblica Ceca. Il velivolo ha rapidamente guadagnato popolarità tra le forze aeree europee. (Wikimedia Commons) Nel febbraio 2026, Embraer e Northrop Grumman hanno firmato un memorandum d'intesa...
Un MV-22B Osprey del Corpo dei Marines a bordo di una nave d'assalto anfibio della Marina. Il convertiplano ha sostituito il CH-46 Sea Knight nel ruolo d'assalto e il C-2 Greyhound nel ruolo di trasporto su portaerei. (US Navy / Wikimedia Commons) Il Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey avrebbe dovuto...
Somewhere in China’s vast defence-industrial complex, a missile is being built that could fundamentally change the arithmetic of air combat over the Pacific. The PL-16 — Beijing’s next-generation beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile — has never been...
Kelly Johnson costruì l'F-104 Starfighter con un unico scopo: salire velocemente, volare in alto e abbattere i bombardieri sovietici prima che raggiungessero le città americane. L'ingegnere della Lockheed intervistò i piloti da caccia della guerra di Corea nel 1951 e concluse che ciò che desideravano non era un altro aereo pesante,...
On the afternoon of 6 April 1965, test pilot Roland “Bee” Beamont was having lunch at a pub near Boscombe Down when the BBC news bulletin came through the radio. Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, midway through his Budget Speech in the House of...
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