Share this story Four hours out of Washington, somewhere over the dark North Atlantic, the crew of United Airlines flight UA946 got the message no twin-jet pilot wants: a problem with one of their two engines. They declared an emergency, turned the Boeing 767 around,...
Share this story The US Army spent Monday at its biggest trade show of the year, and Sikorsky brought a shipping container. Inside it are four drones. The Nomad 100 Fast Pack, unveiled on 12 October at the Association of the US Army annual meeting in Washington, is a...
Share this story For two weeks the British government chose its words carefully. On Monday it stopped. Standing at the despatch box in the House of Commons on 12 October, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the suspected plot against RAF Fairford, the Gloucestershire...
Share this story Somewhere over northern Europe on Monday morning, a slim grey wedge with no cockpit sat on a launch rail, lit a rocket booster and went flying. No runway. No pilot. No ladder, no canopy, no crew bus. The aircraft is the Airbus U740 Valkyrie, and it...
Share this story Every PAC-3 interceptor fired by a Patriot battery depends on one component made in Huntsville, Alabama: the radar seeker in its nose. Boeing builds it as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin, and with Patriot stocks drained by wars in Ukraine and the...
Share this story Ignore a U.S. warship on channel 16 and you may get a very short, very loud reply. On Saturday, 10 October 2026, a U.S. fighter jet put a precision-guided munition into the stern of the Panama-flagged cargo ship M/V Ocean Molica in the Gulf of Oman,...
Share this story The third strike in four days was the one nobody walked away from. On Saturday, 10 October 2026, a projectile slammed into King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, the Saudi capital’s main gateway, killing at least 12 people and wounding...
Share this story At 10:06 on Thursday 8 October 2026, a single-seat JAS 39C Gripen rolled down Runway 22 at Wing 7, Surat Thani, in southern Thailand. In the cockpit, alone, was Queen Suthida. She landed 41 minutes later as, in the words of the Bureau of the Royal...
Share this story The Navy has looked at a fighter-sized drone that takes off standing on its tail, and decided to put more money on the table. On 8 October 2026, Shield AI announced that the U.S. Navy had executed a $150 million modification to its agreement for...
Share this story Most warships come home with a fresh coat of paint. USS Abraham Lincoln came home with a scoreboard. When the Nimitz-class carrier eased into Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego on Thursday, 8 October 2026, its island was plastered with rows...
Share this story Somewhere in Dublin, a company that does not fly a single passenger has just bought 250 jetliners. On Friday, 9 October 2026, aircraft lessor Avolon announced firm orders for 140 Boeing 737 MAX and 110 Airbus aircraft, plus options on 100 more. If the...
Share this story At 12:56 on Friday afternoon, the ground under southern Panama lurched hard enough to empty one of Latin America’s biggest connecting hubs. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake, centred on the Azuero Peninsula, shook Panama City about 200 kilometres away,...
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