Share this story Hypersonic weapons have a problem that has nothing to do with physics. They work. They are also so expensive that nobody can afford to fire very many of them, which in a serious war is the same thing as not having them. On 1 September the Air Force...
Share this story On 1 September, a formation of very old, very large aeroplanes settled onto a runway in the Northern Territory of Australia, 4,000 kilometres from the nearest American base and comfortably beyond the reach of most of China’s missile force. That was...
Share this story There is an Airbus A380 sitting in the sun at Tarbes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees. It has been there since 16 July 2025. It is painted for an airline that has flown four flights in its entire existence, holds no air operator’s certificate, and is...
Share this story For years the standard defence of the F-35 went like this: yes, the development was a nightmare, but the unit price kept falling, and eventually a stealth fighter would cost about what a fourth-generation jet costs. That argument has now run out of...
Share this story Buying more of a good fighter sounds like an easy win. The Pentagon has just published the fine print, and it is a reminder that in defence procurement, doubling an order is never simply a matter of writing a bigger cheque. Earlier this year the U.S....
Share this story At about seven in the morning on 2 September, a grey four-engined Hercules bristling with antennas rolled down the runway at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona and climbed into the desert haze. Its callsign was VOLT01. Six hours later it came...
Condividi questa storia Un breve video pubblicato su Instagram questa settimana mostra qualcosa che sarebbe stato impensabile dieci anni fa: un aereo da combattimento a reazione, senza cabina di pilotaggio, senza pilota, che atterra da solo su una pista nel deserto. L'aereo è l'YFQ-44A Fury di Anduril. Il...
Condividi questa storia Frank Kendall, che ha ricoperto la carica di Segretario dell'Aeronautica degli Stati Uniti da luglio 2021 a gennaio 2025, ha trascorso tre giorni all'inizio di settembre 2026 a sostenere la stessa tesi in tre diverse occasioni: un articolo di opinione sul New York Times il 1° settembre, un'intervista su...
Condividi questa storia Verso le sette del mattino di giovedì 3 settembre 2026, nel villaggio di Probuzhdeniye, alla periferia di Engels, nella regione russa di Saratov, un uomo in motocicletta con il volto coperto da un casco ha sparato due colpi di pistola contro un militare, poi...
Share this story For the second time in four days, Polish fighters have been scrambled to meet a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea. On Thursday afternoon, 3 September 2026, the four-engined turboprop was intercepted roughly 40 kilometres north...
Share this story On 4 September 2026, an Air China Airbus A330-200 is scheduled to lift off from Beijing, stop for three hours in Bucharest, and continue to Zagreb. When it lands, Croatia will have a scheduled year-round air link to mainland China for the first time....
Condividi questa storia L'Iraq utilizza già il Bell 407. Il 31 agosto 2026 il Dipartimento di Stato americano ha autorizzato l'acquisto di un numero molto maggiore di questi elicotteri, insieme a un modello più grande e a un numero sufficiente di armi, razzi e sensori per trasformare gli elicotteri utility in ricognitori armati. L'approvazione,...
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