Spain Rolls Out Its First Halcon Eurofighter
On the first day of June, under the sharp Castilian sun, a new chapter in European combat aviation was written at the Airbus Defence and Space assembly line in Getafe, just south of Madrid. Spain rolled out its first Tranche 4 Eurofighter Typhoon, a twin-seat aircraft...
KF-21 Boramae: South Korea’s Fighter Completes Flight Testing
On 13 January 2026, South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration quietly announced what amounts to a seismic shift in the global fighter market: the KF-21 Boramae had completed its flight test programme. Two months ahead of schedule. 1,600 sorties...
Russia Rebuilds Its Eyes: Another A-50U Joins the Fleet
Somewhere on a Russian military airfield, ground crews recently rolled out a freshly painted Beriev A-50U — the latest modernized airborne early warning aircraft to join the fleet, and a replacement Russia desperately needed. An image first shared on May 31 by the...
NATO Turns Charing Cross Tube Into a War Room
Eighty-six feet beneath Trafalgar Square, behind a nondescript grey door in a Tube corridor, five hundred soldiers bent over glowing screens while commuters streamed past, oblivious. No one above ground suspected a thing. This was Exercise Arrcade Strike, and the...
Drones Silence Russia’s Rarest Submarine Whisperer
There is a particular silence in the early hours over the Sea of Azov, and on the night of 29-30 May 2026 it was broken not by jet engines but by the soft whir of Ukrainian strike drones. Their target sat on the apron at Taganrog, the home of the Beriev Aircraft...
Indonesia’s First Rafale Pilots Are Training in France
Editor’s Update (June 2026): Indonesia’s first Rafale pilot training in France was completed in December 2025, and the first three Rafale F4 jets arrived in Indonesia in January 2026. The background analysis below describes the training programme as it was...
Rafales Intercept Russian Su-30s Armed With NATO-Killer Missiles
French Rafale pilots operating from Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania have been having a busy spring. Since France took command of the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission on March 31, their four Rafale B fighters have scrambled repeatedly to intercept Russian combat...
Italy Rushes Fighter Jets to Romania After Russian Drone Injures Two
On May 29, the warhead of an Iranian-designed Shahed drone detonated on the roof of an apartment building in Galați, eastern Romania. Two people were injured. Several more were evacuated while firefighters fought the blaze. It was the first time a Russian drone had...
Lufthansa’s 10-and-10 Widebody Bet — and Why the Split Matters
The Lufthansa Group supervisory board signed off on the 20-widebody order two weeks ago — ten Airbus A350-900s and ten Boeing 787-9s, $7.7 billion at list, deliveries 2032 through 2034. The headline numbers have been digested. What deserves a second look is the...
Canada Just Bet on Leonardo’s Newest Trainer Jet
If you wanted to draw a quiet line on a world map showing where Leonardo’s jet trainer business is winning, you would now need to extend it across the Atlantic. On 26 May 2026, at the company’s Venegono plant north of Milan, ITPS Canada signed for six...
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