Indonesia’s First Rafale Pilots Are Training in France Right Now
Somewhere at a Dassault Aviation facility in southern France, Indonesian Air Force pilots are learning to fly one of Europe’s most capable fighters. The training has been underway since 2025, and a second phase of domestic instruction is now running in parallel...
Washington Pulls Half Its Strike Power From Europe
The United States has notified NATO that it intends to cut by 50% the long-range strike capabilities allocated to the defence of Europe. The announcement, expected to be formalised at the June NATO conference on force distribution, marks the most significant American...
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-made 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 ever...
A Chinese Missile Brought Down an American F-15 — and That Changes Everything
On the afternoon of April 3, somewhere over the scrubby hills of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in southwestern Iran, a shoulder-fired missile — roughly seven feet long and weighing about 40 pounds — slammed into an F-15E Strike Eagle from the 494th Fighter...
The Snow Bird: 264 Hours, Two Oceans, and the Longest Flight Ever Made
On the evening of 4 March 1957, a US Navy patrol blimp lifted off the apron at Naval Air Station South Weymouth, Massachusetts, and pointed itself east, towards the Atlantic Ocean. Its envelope was 343 feet long. Its registration was Bureau Number 141561 and its name,...
Air Force One Is Late — Here Is Every Boeing Jet Behind Schedule in 2026
The President of the United States is currently flying around the world on a Qatari hand-me-down. Trump’s interim Air Force One is a former royal Boeing 747-8 from Doha that the Air Force just finished repainting red, white and blue because the actual Air Force...
RAH-66 Comanche: The $7 Billion Stealth Helicopter That Never Got to Fight
On 23 February 2004, the Acting Secretary of the Army — a former Senate staffer and Vietnam veteran named Les Brownlee — stood at a Pentagon podium with the Army Chief of Staff, General Peter Schoomaker, and announced the cancellation of one of the most...
IAI Lavi: Israel’s F-16 Killer That Washington Killed First
On the morning of December 31, 1986, the wind off the Negev was dry and cold and the tarmac at Ben Gurion International, on the IAI factory side, was thick with people in winter coats. A small, pale, beautifully proportioned fighter jet — nose canard, single...
F-47 NGAD: 185 Jets, Mach 2+, and One Big Problem Nobody Talks About
The F-47 has a $20 billion prime contract, 185 jets on order, Mach 2-plus on the spec sheet, eight robot wingmen each, and a $300 million per copy sticker that would make a Lamborghini dealer blush. The Air Force is building it in St. Louis. Boeing’s stock loves...
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