Military Aviation, News
Two Russian supersonic bombers, ten escort fighters, and the combined air forces of six NATO nations. For four hours over the Baltic Sea on April 20, one of the largest airspace confrontations since the Cold War played out in real time. NATO tracked two Tupolev...
Military Aviation, News
Germany wants the most powerful conventional military in Europe. By 2039. That is not a think-tank fantasy — it is now official government policy, backed by legislation, funded by billions, and documented in the most comprehensive overhaul of Bundeswehr planning in...
Military Aviation, News
A crewless boat just shot down a drone. No sailors aboard. No anti-aircraft battery. Just a Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel, a compact interceptor called the Sting, and a Russian Shahed that never reached its target. On April 19, Ukraine’s 412th...
Military Aviation, News
Emmanuel Macron arrives in Athens today with a proposal that reads like a Cold War arms bazaar: give us all 43 of your Mirage 2000 fighters, and we will sell you Rafales at a discount. The Mirages? They are going to Ukraine. The deal, first reported by Le Parisien,...
Military Aviation, News
French Rafale fighters armed with nuclear-capable ASMP cruise missiles will soon rehearse strikes on targets near St. Petersburg. The exercise partner is Poland. The theatre is the Baltic Sea. And the message is aimed squarely at Moscow. According to the Polish news...
Military Aviation, News
Two cabinet ministers are out. A president is backpedalling. And at the centre of it all sits a $3.5 billion order for 24 fighter jets that Peru’s military desperately wants — and Peru’s politicians can’t agree on. On April 22, Peru’s Defence...
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The Pentagon just killed a $6 billion programme that was supposed to modernise the ground infrastructure controlling every GPS satellite in orbit. The Next Generation Operational Control System — OCX — has been cancelled after years of cost overruns, schedule slips,...
Military Aviation, News
While American F-15Es and F/A-18s bomb Iranian military targets from the Persian Gulf, a handful of Grumman F-14A Tomcats sit in hardened shelters at Iranian air bases — the last operational Tomcats on earth. Built in the United States, sold to the Shah, abandoned by...
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El Al is stretching its wings to the bottom of the world. Israel’s flag carrier has announced its longest-ever scheduled route: a 7,604-mile nonstop from Tel Aviv to Buenos Aires, operated by Boeing 787 Dreamliners with three classes of service. At 16.5 hours...
Aviation World, News
It has marble showers, plush VIP suites, and a price tag approaching $400 million for the conversion alone. It was built as a flying palace for the Emir of Qatar. And by this summer, it will carry the President of the United States — with one critical capability...
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The war in Iran is now grounding flights in Frankfurt. Lufthansa Group announced on April 21 that it will cancel 20,000 short-haul flights through October 2026, saving 40,000 metric tonnes of jet fuel as the Iran conflict sends energy prices into territory not seen...
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Somewhere in a field exercise, a small drone lifts off, scans the ground with artificial intelligence, spots a downed enemy UAV, extends a robotic arm, grabs it, and flies back to base with the prize. That’s Project RED — Recovery Exploitation Drone — and the US...
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