Share this story A US Air Force casualty assistance officer told the widow of a major killed in a KC-135 crash that certain combat-related benefits were not available to her family, because — in his words — the United States has not declared war. That is...
Share this story An Embraer 170 flew from Puget Sound to southern Alaska and back, four hours and twenty-three minutes, with GPS switched off the whole way. It navigated by reading the magnetic field of the rocks underneath it. This is being reported in several places...
Share this story Just after midnight on Pakistan Air Force Day, the PAF posted a patriotic music video called Fizaon K Pasbaan — Guardians of the Skies. Around twenty-eight seconds in, a six-wheeled air-defence vehicle with a large rectangular radar array rolls...
Share this story Denmark has quietly finished buying sixteen more F-35As, taking its fleet from twenty-seven to forty-three. Nobody announced it. It surfaced in a Pentagon accounting document. The Danish government and the F-35 Joint Program Office closed the deal by...
Share this story Switzerland voted for its new fighter jets in 2020 by 8,670 votes. It signed for 36 of them in 2022 at a price it believed was fixed. In August 2025 the Americans explained that the price had never been fixed. In March 2026 the Federal Council gave up...
Share this story Last week a volunteer-run space programme in Rancho Cordova, California, released some pictures. They show a dark, wing-shaped vehicle called Hazel dropping away from twin balloons joined by a long truss, high above the Earth. They are stills from an...
Share this story DL234 pushed back from JFK Terminal 4 on Sunday afternoon and landed at Ben Gurion on Monday morning. An Airbus A330-900neo, 281 seats, ten and three quarter hours eastbound. It is an entirely ordinary flight, and it had not operated since 28...
Share this story At 12:45 on Sunday afternoon, Polish controllers pulled a slice of airspace east of Lublin out of civil use. At 13:15, Poland’s Operational Command announced that an unidentified object had crossed from the direction of Belarus. A duty Mi-24 was...
Share this story On Sunday morning, Iranian state television announced that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had struck a remotely operated US military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, after it tried to enter what Iran calls a restricted area. By Sunday afternoon,...
Share this story Airlines do not usually order more of an aircraft they have never flown. ANA has just ordered eight. Embraer announced the deal from Tokyo on 4 September, formalising a decision the ANA Holdings board took on 29 July. It takes ANA’s firm order...
Share this story The caption was eleven words long. “Golden hour. Live fire. Mothership operations with 75th Ranger Regiment, U.S. Army.” That is the entirety of what has been made public about the US Army’s most secretive infantry unit testing a...
Share this story There is no harbour on Jan Mayen. There is no town, no permanent population, and for most of the year not much daylight either. There is a strip of black volcanic gravel about a kilometre and a half long, no instrument approach, and a 2,277-metre...
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