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In October 2023, Turkey was expelled from the F-35 programme. The reason: Ankara had purchased the Russian S-400 air defence system, and Washington refused to risk integrating America’s most advanced stealth fighter into an air force that also operated Russian...
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The fighter jets rolling onto the runway at NAS Fallon in Nevada are not U.S. Navy aircraft. They are operated by TacAir — a private company based in Reno. The pilots in the cockpits are civilians, many of them former military. Their job is to fly aggressively against...
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It came home to Portsmouth on October 11, 2025, callsign TABOR61, nose adorned with two small silhouettes of Shahed-type drones alongside the figure of Ares. The Idaho Air National Guard A-10C had just finished six months in the CENTCOM area of responsibility. It had...
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Photographers watching the B-2 Spirits taxi out for another Iran mission on March 25 noticed something odd. Rows of white rectangular patches — uniformly sized, black-bordered — running along the leading edges of both wings. On two separate aircraft. Nobody at the Air...
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In U.S. defence procurement, hitting your cost target is newsworthy. Beating it significantly is almost unheard of. Yet that is exactly what Air Force officials are claiming about the Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme — the effort to build autonomous drone...
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At Edwards Air Force Base in February 2026, an F-22 Raptor pilot did something no fighter pilot has done before in an official U.S. Air Force exercise: he commanded a drone wingman in combat-like conditions. From his cockpit, using a specialist interface on a tablet,...
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Poland does not make fighter jets. It hasn’t produced a combat aircraft in decades. But right now, Warsaw is knocking on the door of one of the most exclusive clubs in aerospace — the Global Combat Air Programme — and asking to be let in. What Poland wants is...
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For nearly two weeks starting February 27, 2026, something almost unprecedented happened in the Taiwan Strait: nothing. Chinese warplanes stayed home. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense logged zero PLAAF activity on 11 out of 13 consecutive days — including a...
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Six names. That is what the U.S. Air Force released on March 14, 2026, two days after a KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in Iraq. Maj. John Klinner. Capt. Ariana Savino. Tech. Sgt. Ashley Pruitt. Capt. Seth Koval. Capt. Curtis Angst. Tech. Sgt. Tyler Simmons. Investigators...
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They looked like canned food, Iranian villagers said. Small cylindrical objects scattered across the streets and fields of Kafari, a village on the southern outskirts of Shiraz. Within hours, Bellingcat had identified them: BLU-91/B scatterable anti-tank landmines,...
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The video is grainy, shot from the ground near Chabahar — a port city on Iran’s remote eastern coast. A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet screams low overhead, its 20mm cannon blazing. Then a streak of smoke rises from below. The aircraft breaks hard left. The...
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On March 24, 2026, a video emerged from Ukraine that stopped aviation watchers in their tracks. A Soviet-era piston trainer, the Yak-52 — designed in the 1970s to teach student pilots basic aerobatics — had just downed a Russian Geran-2 kamikaze drone using a rifle...
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