Military Aviation, News
ILA Berlin 2026 opens today under the shadow of the biggest upheaval in European defence aviation in a generation. The Franco-German FCAS is dead. Team Gen 6 is born. And around 750 exhibitors have descended on the German capital to show what comes next. This is not a...
Military Aviation, News
It took two days. On Monday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz confirmed publicly that the Franco-German FCAS — Europe’s most ambitious combat aircraft programme since the Eurofighter — was dead — after privately telling President Macron on Saturday. On Tuesday, on the...
Aviation World, News
At 43,400 feet over Edwards Air Force Base, the needle crossed Mach 1.1. No bang. No boom. Just a soft thump that most people on the ground wouldn’t notice. On 5 June 2026, NASA’s X-59 QueSST did what 53 years of regulation said commercial aircraft could...
News
Hours after American fighter jets cratered Iranian radar installations across the southern coast, Tehran opened three new fronts. Drones hit Bahrain. Drones hit Kuwait. Long-range missiles were fired at an air base in Jordan. The IRGC claims it struck 21 American...
Military Aviation, News
A Shahed drone slams into an AH-64 Apache over the Strait of Hormuz. Both crew members plunge into the Gulf. Two hours later, a robotic boat drags them from the water — the first-ever unmanned sea rescue of downed aviators. Hours after that, American jets are...
Aviation World, News
While American carriers agonise over whether to order Airbus widebodies, a Brazilian airline has quietly answered the question for itself. Azul has signed for four more Airbus A330-900neos — doubling down on the jet that has become the backbone of its long-haul...
Military Aviation, News
A stealth fighter is only as good as the radar in its nose. China appears to have made the J-20’s a great deal better — not with a bigger dish, but with a different kind of crystal. The breakthrough, announced by Shandong University in May 2025 and credited to Xu...
Military Aviation, News
Somewhere over the Sumy region, near the seam where Ukraine meets Russia, a Ukrainian F-16 may have been lost in a way none had been lost before — not to a missile fired from the ground, not to an accident, but to another fighter. Russian sources say a Su-35 did it,...
Military Aviation, News
It has no tail, three engines, and a planform like a stingray crossed with a stealth bomber. It is the most radical-looking combat aircraft on Earth — and it is Chinese. Grainy photographs of Chengdu’s tailless giant, widely dubbed the J-36, keep leaking out of China,...
Aviation World, News
American Airlines flies more aircraft than almost anyone on Earth, yet it has quietly backed itself into a corner over the ocean. Its long-haul order book has dwindled to just 19 jets. Now the airline is preparing to fix that — and the most interesting part of the...
Military Aviation, News
At five minutes past ten on the morning of 8 June, the quiet farmland around Bērzgale, a village in eastern Latvia barely thirty kilometres from the Russian frontier, became the site of a first for Latvia — and at least the third time NATO fighters have destroyed a...
Military Aviation, News
For two years, the math of drone warfare has been an embarrassment. A $400 quadcopter floats over the front line; a $4 million interceptor missile streaks up to kill it. Win the engagement, lose the war chest. On 8 June, the U.S. Army handed a New York startup up to...
English
Recent Comments