When the little monoplane bumped to a stop at Baldonnel Aerodrome outside Dublin on the morning of 18 July 1938, the ground crew did not quite know what they were looking at. The aircraft was a patchwork of solder and baling wire. The door was held shut by a twist of...
It is a grey, gusty morning on the Kent coast in 1955, and a man in a tweed jacket is doing something that looks faintly absurd: he is driving his Austin straight into the nose of an aeroplane. Ahead of him, two great rounded doors stand open like the jaws of a whale....
The order came not from a battlefield but from a committee room. On a Sunday in early May 2026, a panel of senior Israeli ministers signed off on a plan that had been gathering urgency for the better part of a year: buy two more squadrons of American fighters, and buy...
Two of the world’s biggest emerging powers are quietly negotiating one of the most unusual arms deals of the decade — and almost no Western capital is in the room. India and Brazil are working toward a barter: India would hand Brazil its homegrown Tejas...
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