Share this story For more than three decades, every Predator, Reaper and Gray Eagle that General Atomics sold was built by General Atomics. On Friday the company broke that habit for its most important new aircraft. The fuselage of the FQ-42 Vengeance, the US Air...
Share this story On Tuesday evening, somewhere over France and the Mediterranean, French two-seat Rafale B jets flew a mock nuclear strike with something they had never had before: British fighters guarding their flanks. The escorts were Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4s of...
Share this story Romania has lost one airline to the courts this month already. On Thursday, 22 October 2026, a second one walked into the courthouse, this time insisting it would walk out again.Dan Air, the Bucharest-based carrier that flies a small fleet of Airbus...
Share this story On a normal Friday, Taiwan’s airports are among the busiest in East Asia. On Friday, 23 October 2026, most of the island simply stopped, and the flights stopped with it.Typhoon Champi, at one point a super typhoon and one of the strongest storms...
Share this story A carrier fighter is only as good as the deck it lands on, and India has bought a fighter designed for somebody else’s deck. Now the Indian Navy has started finding out exactly what that means.Defence sources told the news agency ANI, as...
Share this story Iran built Eagle 44 so that its warplanes could ride out an air war inside a mountain. In 2026, the mountain got its test. Now satellite images suggest the diggers never really stopped.Imagery taken by Planet Labs on 29 September 2026 and published by...
Share this story Some days the hardest part of flight training is the landing. On Thursday evening, 22 October 2026, two U.S. Air Force pilots in a T-6A Texan II decided, with expert advice from the ground, that the safest way to finish their flight was not to land at...
Share this story Counting aircraft from orbit is a strange way to follow a weapons programme, but with China it is often the only way. On 5 October 2026 a commercial satellite passed over Xi’an-Yanliang airfield in Shaanxi province and photographed four KJ-3000...
Share this story Bombers are supposed to be the ones being hunted. The U.S. Air Force is now asking, in writing, whether they could do some of the hunting.The service’s long-term fighter force structure report, sent to Congress last week and first reported by...
Share this story For twenty years the F-35 has been bought the way most people buy groceries: one lot at a time, haggling at the checkout. On Thursday, 22 October 2026, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin announced they want to switch to a subscription.The two sides...
Share this story At 22,000 ft (about 6,700 m), landing gear is supposed to be folded away and forgotten. So when photographer Ján Kolárik pointed his lens at a US Air Force C-5 Galaxy crossing Slovakia, he caught something genuinely odd: one of the giant...
Share this story A grey Super Hornet over the Mojave, blue-banded test rounds under its wings, and a first for US naval aviation. On 14 October 2026, an aviation photographer caught a US Navy F/A-18F from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 31 over Ridgecrest,...
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