CENTCOM Builds a Drone Army in the Gulf
For years the drone story in the Middle East was about what the other side could do — Iranian Shaheds, Houthi one-way attackers, the slow bleed of American surveillance drones falling from the sky. This week, U.S. Central Command answered with a drone force of...
The Man Who Kept Photographing the B-2
The first warning should have been enough. On 2 December 2025, security forces found a minivan with Massachusetts plates loitering near the perimeter of Whiteman Air Force Base, home of America’s stealth bombers. The driver said he had simply come to look at the...
US and Australia Wage War Over Alaska
There is a patch of sky over interior Alaska so large it could swallow a small country. This month, American and Australian fighter crews are fighting a war inside it. Red Flag-Alaska 26-3 began on 13 August and runs through 28 August 2026, a Pacific Air...
Warsaw Within Range: Russia’s Drone Bases Multiply
A launch rail is a humble thing: a length of metal angled at the sky. Build fifty-nine of them along your western frontier, and you have something else entirely — a machine for reaching deep into a nervous continent. That is the picture drawn by a Telegraph...
Trump Cuts Korea War Games, Hails Kim
Hours before American and South Korean troops were due to kick off one of the year’s biggest military exercises, President Donald Trump told the Pentagon to shrink it — and named two reasons that had nothing to do with the Korean Peninsula: Kim Jong Un,...
What the Iran War Has Cost America So Far
Last week we told you that America had lost roughly a quarter of its MQ-9 Reaper fleet in the war with Iran. That eye-watering number — around 45 drones, more than $1.3 billion — turned out to be a single line in a much longer invoice. Nearly six months...
Russia Shows Off the BM-35, a Jet-Powered Drone
Russian state television has aired footage of a new strike drone called the BM-35, and the numbers attached to it are eye-catching: a jet engine, a top speed of more than 350 km/h, and a claim that Ukrainian interceptors simply cannot catch it. As always with weapons...
Drones Set Moscow’s Largest Warehouse Ablaze
Overnight into 16 August, a large wave of Ukrainian drones flew toward the Moscow and Rostov regions, setting warehouses alight and, according to Russian officials, causing several casualties. It was, by the account of the Moscow regional governor, one of the biggest...
The Focke-Wulf Fw 61: The Helicopter They Flew Indoors
Picture the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin in February 1938. The arena is packed. Down on the floor sits a contraption that looks like a light trainer that has lost its wings and grown two enormous three-blade fans on outrigger struts. A slight young woman climbs into the...
Thirty-Two Minutes Over the Mountains: The Story of Japan Airlines Flight 123
It was the eve of the Obon holiday, when families across Japan travel home to honour their ancestors. Japan Airlines Flight 123 lifted off from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport at 18:12 on 12 August 1985, bound for Osaka. The aircraft was a Boeing 747SR, a short-range...
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