The United States Air Force Thunderbirds will perform over the National Mall on July 4th for the first time in the team’s 73-year history. The flyover anchors what organisers are calling the most ambitious aviation spectacle in American history — a formation...
A naval drone that costs roughly $200,000 can now launch its own swarm of first-person-view attack drones while underway at sea. The Sea Baby unmanned surface vessel — a remotely piloted maritime platform with a 1,500-kilometre range — has evolved from a...
A $17.9 million armed overwatch aircraft is a total loss because a trainee pilot turned the wrong valve during a training sortie. The Air Force Special Operations Command investigation into the October 2025 crash of an OA-1K Skyraider II has revealed a chain of errors...
An F-15EX Eagle II has touched down at Kadena Air Base. The newest variant of Boeing’s legendary air superiority fighter landed on Okinawa’s most strategically important airfield on June 29, returning to the Pacific’s frontline base a year after the...
The engines Turkey needs for its fifth-generation fighter are on the way — and Washington just wrote the permission slip. The Trump administration has notified Congress of a more than $700 million sale of General Electric F110 turbofan engines for Ankara’s TAI...
The world’s most ambitious sixth-generation fighter programme just survived its biggest political test. The United Kingdom has committed £8.6 billion over the next four years to the Global Combat Air Programme, as part of its new £298 billion Defence Investment...
A C-130J Super Hercules at a forward operating location. The Hercules has served as the backbone of tactical airlift for seven decades, but the Air Force is now planning its eventual replacement. (U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons) Somewhere in the western Pacific,...
A Brazilian Air Force KC-390 Millennium (FAB 2858) on display at NATO Days 2023 in the Czech Republic. The aircraft has rapidly gained traction with European air forces. (Wikimedia Commons) In February 2026, Embraer and Northrop Grumman signed a memorandum of...
On 10 March 2026, more than 400 customers, partners, and aviation executives gathered in a new production hall at Bordeaux-Mérignac as Dassault Aviation pulled the curtain on the Falcon 10X — the largest, longest-ranged, and most technologically advanced business jet...
Somewhere in China’s vast defence-industrial complex, a missile is being built that could fundamentally change the arithmetic of air combat over the Pacific. The PL-16 — Beijing’s next-generation beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile — has never been...
An S7 Airlines Boeing 737-800 slid off the end of the runway at Mirny Airport in Russia’s Sakha Republic on June 30, coming to rest in mud beyond the paved surface. All 173 passengers and six crew members walked away without injury. But the incident — classified...
The world’s largest international maritime exercise is underway. Rim of the Pacific 2026 — the 30th iteration of a series that began in 1971 — kicked off on June 24 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. It will run through July 31, and the numbers alone...
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