Pakistan Just Shipped a JF-17 Combat Simulator to Bangladesh
In May 2026, an unmarked Pakistan Air Force C-130J landed in Dhaka and unloaded a single very heavy crate. Inside was a fully operational combat simulator for the JF-17 Thunder Block III — the latest variant of Pakistan’s Chinese-built lightweight fighter. The...
Israel Will Bolt Drop Tanks Onto the F-35 — And Lockheed Said Yes
For the better part of a quarter-century, Lockheed Martin has held a hard line on one engineering principle of the F-35 Lightning II: no external fuel tanks. The aircraft was designed to be stealthy, and stealth means an unbroken radar cross-section. The moment you...
The AIM-260 JATM Finally Breaks Cover — On a Super Hornet
For more than five years, the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile has been one of the most carefully guarded weapons programmes inside the United States Department of Defense. There were no public photographs. No leaks. No images on any test range. The Pentagon...
Argentina Retires the A-4 Skyhawk After 60 Years — F-16s Take the Watch
For 60 years, the Argentine Air Force flew the A-4 Skyhawk. The compact little Douglas attack jet — designed in California in 1952 for the United States Navy — became a Latin American workhorse, a Falklands warrior, and the last vintage combat aircraft in operational...
Aeralis Collapses — Britain Just Lost Its Last Jet Trainer
The dream of an all-British advanced jet trainer is over. On Friday 16 May, two administrators from Buchler Phillips walked into Aeralis Limited and began dismantling the company. Around 30 staff lost their jobs. With them went six years of carefully assembled...
Russia Just Built a Two-Seat Su-57 — And It’s Aimed at India
On 16 May 2026 a single photograph surfaced on the Telegram channel FighterBomber, the unofficial-but-well-sourced mouthpiece of Russia’s aerospace forces. It showed a familiar planform — the flat upper deck, the twin canted tails, the engine spacing of Sukhoi’s...
Two Navy Growlers Collide Mid-Air Over Idaho — All Four Crew Survive
At about 12:10 in the afternoon on Sunday, the crowd at the Gunfighter Skies Air Show in Idaho was watching two U.S. Navy EA-18G Growlers fly the kind of low, sharp formation pass that demo teams have practised thousands of times. A few seconds later, the two jets...
Switzerland’s F-35 Nightmare: Fewer Jets, Costlier Patriots, and a Doomed Initiative
Switzerland’s ambitious defence modernisation programme is unravelling on multiple fronts simultaneously. The Patriot missile system may cost double what Parliament approved. The F-35A fleet is shrinking before a single Swiss jet has been assembled. Germany —...
What the EA-37B Compass Call Actually Does
The EA-37B Compass Call may be the most important aircraft most people have never heard of. While stealth fighters and strategic bombers capture public imagination, this modified Gulfstream G550 business jet quietly represents one of the most critical capabilities in...
B-1B ‘Apocalypse II’ Returns from the Dead
In a sprawling maintenance hangar at Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas, a B-1B Lancer that had been grounded for years rolled back onto the flight line in May 2026, freshly repainted and bearing a name that reads like a sequel nobody expected: “Apocalypse...
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