The aircraft that worries American air base commanders most in 2026 is not a Chinese stealth fighter or a Russian bomber. It is a battery-powered quadcopter that costs less than a used laptop, and there is nothing to stop a hostile one from buzzing the fence line of a...
For three-quarters of a century, European security rested on a single quiet assumption: if the sky over the continent ever caught fire, American airpower would arrive to put it out. At this month’s NATO summit, the alliance’s top commander made clear that...
The United States plans to rely on the AGM-181 to keep its airborne nuclear deterrent credible deep into the 2050s. To get there, it has exactly one aircraft cleared to test the missile: the B-52, a bomber whose last airframe rolled off the line in 1962. The newest...
The most expensive gift in the history of aviation sat gleaming on the ramp in Turkey — and the President of the United States walked straight past it. On 8 July, barely a day after American bombs fell on Iran, Donald Trump boarded the old Air Force One, the...
Fresh mission markings on USS Gerald R. Ford’s Super Hornets reveal the weapons its air wing used against Iran, and one jet wears 31 unexplained symbols.
GAO’s new assessment pushes the T-7A Red Hawk full-rate production decision to January 2029 and warns of concurrency risk in Boeing’s trainer program.
Satellite imagery shows hardened rectangular launch structures with sliding roofs at China’s Jilantai missile test base. What analysts think they hold.
NATO’s Ankara summit confirms a $4.5B plan for up to ten Saab GlobalEyes, up to five MQ-4C Tritons, a pooled A400M airlift fleet and one more A330 MRTT.
Air raid sirens woke Kuwait and Bahrain on 8 July 2026 as Iran launched missiles and drones at US bases, claiming 85 targets. No losses were confirmed.
After meeting Erdogan at the Ankara NATO summit, Trump says he will lift 2020 CAATSA sanctions and decide on F-35 sales. Congress may disagree.
A K2 Airways Boeing 737-400 freighter with five crew vanished over the Arabian Sea after reporting a navigation failure. The search continues off Karachi.
CENTCOM struck over 80 Iranian targets overnight after three tankers were hit in the Strait of Hormuz, including Qatari LNG carrier Al Rekayyat.
Ask which is better, the MiG-29 or the Su-30, and you have already misunderstood the question. They were never meant to compete. They are the two halves of a single idea — the Soviet Union's deliberate decision to build one small fighter and one big one, each doing a...
The most important document in the history of stealth aircraft was not written in California or at a secret desert airfield. It was written in Moscow, in Russian, by a Soviet physicist — and the Soviet Union let it go abroad because it decided the work was of no...
Look at the side of the ship and you can see it: the ghost of an aeroplane. Two wings, a fuselage, even the struts of a fixed undercarriage — a full-size silhouette of an aircraft, printed onto grey naval steel. It is one of the strangest and most haunting photographs...
When the An-225 Mriya was destroyed in 2022, the world lost its single largest aircraft. But the West still keeps a giant of its own in the air — one that has been hauling tanks, helicopters and satellites around the planet since before the Moon landings, and is...
In the history of fighter aircraft, almost nobody remembers the runner-up. The jet that loses the competition gets a museum plaque, if it is lucky, and the winner gets the production line. The Northrop YF-17 Cobra is the great exception. It lost — and then went on to...