A Bengaluru startup has just thrown India’s hat into the ring of autonomous combat aviation. Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace (FWDA) has unveiled the FWD Supreme — an AI-piloted fighter concept designed to fly, fight, and make tactical decisions without a...
The Boeing T-7A Red Hawk was supposed to be the Air Force’s feel-good story — a sleek, digitally-designed trainer built to replace the geriatric T-38 Talon and modernize pilot training for a generation. It still might be. But a three-part investigation by...
When the Patrouille de France’s nine blue-and-white Alphajets sweep over the Champs-Élysées on July 14, they won’t be alone. Flanking them will be two Mirage 2000Bs crewed by Franco-Ukrainian teams — the opening act of the largest Bastille Day aerial...
Indonesia has officially abandoned its plan to co-produce South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae fighter jet, ending a partnership that was supposed to give Jakarta its own production line and a seat at the table of advanced fighter manufacturing. Instead, Indonesia will...
The United States Air Force is about to pour $4.2 billion into its three main operating bases in the United Kingdom — the single largest American basing investment in Britain in decades. A presentation by the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, obtained...
It is now firm. Saab has signed a contract for 16 Gripen E fighters destined for Ukraine — turning the spring’s letter of intent into a binding deal and committing one of the West’s most capable light fighters to the Ukrainian Air Force.The contract,...
At 1:54pm on June 30, a Bulgarian MiG-29 lit its afterburners and clawed off the runway at Graf Ignatievo. Three minutes later it had formed up on the wing of a civilian Airbus A320 that had just transmitted the four digits every air-defence controller dreads:...
Somewhere over the Great Plains on Wednesday, a 14-year-old Boeing 747 that nobody could sell will become the most politically radioactive aircraft in American skies. President Donald Trump is taking his first flight aboard the Qatari-gifted Air Force One — and...
One question has shadowed China’s J-36 since it first flew: a tailless aircraft can be stealthy and stable, but can it actually manoeuvre? New footage circulating online appears to answer it. The big, three-engined sixth-generation prototype is seen pulling a...
When an American F-15E Strike Eagle went down over Iran this spring, the obvious question was what shot it. A new answer is now circulating in Washington — and it points east, to China. According to NBC News, citing sources familiar with the investigation, U.S....
The Marine general who runs the F-35 program walked into a Senate hearing this week and said the quiet part out loud: the most expensive weapons program in history has outgrown the system built to keep it flying.It landed weeks after a Government Accountability Office...
United Flight 1513, a Boeing 737-700 inbound from Key West with 106 people on board, is on final approach to Newark Liberty on a Friday afternoon when the crew sees a small circular object — perhaps three feet across — flash past about a hundred feet...
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