The F-22 Can Now Fight Blind: Jam-Resistant Navigation Goes Operational
Northrop Grumman has delivered the first production unit of a navigation system designed to solve one of modern air combat’s most dangerous problems: what happens when the enemy jams your GPS. The Embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation System Modernisation, designated...
Alpha Strike: SBU Drones Hit MiG-31 and Three Warships in Crimea
On the night of April 25–26, Ukraine’s Security Service launched one of its most coordinated single-night operations of the entire war. SBU Special Operations Centre Alpha sent waves of attack drones against two of Russia’s most critical military...
Black Friday: How Canada Killed the World’s Fastest Interceptor
On the morning of February 20, 1959, test pilot Jan “Spud” Potocki climbed out of CF-105 Arrow RL-201 at Avro Canada’s Malton facility near Toronto. He had just pushed the delta-winged interceptor to Mach 1.75 — its final flight. He did not know...
Norway Tests a Plane That Takes Off in 50 Metres
Fifty metres. That is the length of a football pitch. That is how much runway the Electra EL9 needs to get nine passengers off the ground. On April 21, Bristow Group, Electra, Avinor, and the Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority signed a contract to test this...
China’s KJ-3000: The Radar Plane Built to Find Stealth Jets
China has built the largest airborne early warning aircraft in its inventory — and possibly the most capable radar plane on earth that is not American. The KJ-3000, based on the indigenous Y-20 strategic transport, represents a generational leap from the handful of...
Airbus RACER Invites NATO Pilots to Fly the Future
A helicopter that flies at 240 knots does not behave like a helicopter. It behaves like something entirely new — a machine caught between the rotary-wing world and the fixed-wing world, borrowing the best instincts from both. Airbus Helicopters has been proving...
South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae Enters Service
Am 25. März 2026 rollte bei Korea Aerospace Industries in Sacheon das erste Serienexemplar der KF-21 Boramae aus der Montagehalle. Nicht ein weiterer Prototyp. Nicht eine Vorserienmaschine. Das erste Exemplar einer geplanten Bauserie von 120 Maschinen, bestimmt für...
Netherlands First in Europe to Join US Drone Wingman Programme
Am 24. April 2026 formalisierten das Department of the Air Force und das niederländische Verteidigungsministerium — but this story belongs in English because its implications are transatlantic. The Netherlands has become the first European nation to join the United...
Finland Opens Door to Nuclear Weapons Storage
Finland wants the legal authority to host nuclear weapons on its soil. Three years after joining NATO, Helsinki has submitted a proposal that would allow the import and storage of nuclear warheads — a radical departure for a country that spent seven decades as a...
Saab Targets 36 Gripens a Year as Orders Surge
Saab is building Gripens faster than at any point in the fighter’s three-decade history — and it is not fast enough. On April 23, CEO Micael Johansson told investors that production is heading toward 20 to 30 aircraft per year, up from roughly 15 today, with a...
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