Share this story On Thursday evening, in a television interview, the president of France committed his armed forces to defending a Saudi oil terminal. He did not say how many people, which systems, or when they arrive. What Emmanuel Macron did say was specific about...
Share this story From 5 to 9 October, passengers waiting for a holiday flight at Nuremberg will share the apron with four Eurofighter Typhoons. The airport is not being closed. The fighters are not visiting for an air display. They are there because the German air...
Share this story There is no competition. Portugal has not launched a tender, has not published a requirement and has not said when it intends to. Airbus is bidding anyway. In Lisbon on Thursday, Ivan Gonzalez Exposito, the Eurofighter campaign manager for Portugal,...
Share this story When Australia confirmed on 22 September that a crate of F-35 parts had ended up in Hong Kong instead of the United States, the official line was that nobody should be especially worried. Two days later, the worry acquired a shape. The consignment...
Share this story On a grey Sunday morning in January, the administrator of NASA stood on a patch of asphalt at Edwards Air Force Base and looked up at a black aeroplane. The fin above him carried two words and three digits: NASA, and 844. It was the ninth stop on...
Share this story The clip everyone shared shows Donald Trump flinching. Two B-1B Lancers came over Joint Base Andrews near the end of the American national anthem, the President ducked, gritted his teeth and lowered his salute to look up, and Xi Jinping, standing next...
Share this story Ten days ago the Secretary of the Air Force, Troy Meink, told a conference hall at National Harbor that the Space Force has on-orbit space control weapons. It was the first time a Pentagon official had said it plainly, and he confirmed afterwards that...
Share this story There is an aviation business that never appears at Farnborough. It buys fighter aircraft that no air force wants any more, from countries that need the money, and sells them to countries that are not allowed to buy weapons at all. On Wednesday a...
Share this story Heart Aerospace has thrown away its own aeroplane and drawn a better one. On Wednesday the Swedish company unveiled the ES-36, a 36-seat hybrid-electric regional airliner that replaces the ES-30 it has been promoting since 2022. Six more seats, 1,415...
Share this story Dassault Aviation said on Monday that it has flown a Rafale carrying two new artificial intelligence systems, both designed to help the person in the cockpit rather than replace them. One was written in-house by Dassault’s own engineers. The...
Share this story On Tuesday a Korean fighter took off from a Korean factory, flown by a Korean air force major who had just signed for it, and landed at a Korean air base. Twenty-five and a half years after a president promised it, South Korea has handed its air force...
Share this story Congress put $12.5 billion into rebuilding American air traffic control in 2025. On Tuesday the Transportation Secretary told a Washington audience that the real number is $42.5 billion. Sean Duffy said the administration will ask Congress for another...
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