Share this story In the spring of 1942, Semyon Lavochkin was in trouble. His LaGG-3 fighter had a poor reputation at the front, it had cost him Stalin’s favour, and the factories building it were being switched over to Yakovlev fighters. His design bureau was...
Share this story It is too big for a bomber. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, better known by its unofficial name, the “Mother of All Bombs”, weighs nearly ten tonnes and is pulled out of the rear cargo door of a C-130 by a parachute. It has been...
Share this story At 17:43 on Saturday, 17 October 2026, two F-16s of the Romanian Air Force roared off the runway at the 86th Air Base at Borcea. Radar had picked up a group of targets about 120 kilometres east of Snake Island, heading south-west. Twenty-two minutes...
Share this story Positive rate of climb. Gear up. The pilot moves the lever, the hydraulics whine, and a few seconds later the wheels should be tucked away behind closed doors. Then a warning appears instead, or a gear leg simply stays where it is, hanging in the...
Share this story Seven months ago it was the front-runner. In March, Rheinmetall and Boeing signed up to bring the MQ-28 Ghost Bat to Germany; in June, it was shown at ILA Berlin with a bigger wing and new German partners. This week Berlin quietly took it off the...
Share this story The camera is mounted on a small fixed-wing drone, and it is chasing a helicopter. A camouflaged Russian Mi-28NM fills more of the frame with every second as the drone closes from behind and slightly above, lined up on the engine bay. Then the video...
Share this story Ten minutes out of Zurich, a fully fuelled Airbus A340 bound for the Caribbean stops climbing and starts drawing circles in the sky north of Aarau. Somewhere beneath the fuselage, one set of wheels has refused to fold away. For the crew of Edelweiss...
Share this story Two Saudi officers are dead, and there are two versions of how they died. In one, their small attack helicopter suffered a technical failure and fell out of the sky near the Yemeni border. In the other, a Houthi weapon brought it down. On Sunday 18...
Share this story There is a helicopter you can buy, fly away from your own field, and operate in American airspace without a pilot certificate, without a medical, without registration, and without any airworthiness approval whatsoever. It is not a loophole and it is...
Share this story A fighter pilot looks down at the display and sees a symbol. One symbol, in one place, with a speed, a heading and a label saying what it is and whose side it is on. Behind that single symbol, several entirely different machines have reported entirely...
Share this story At lunchtime on Friday, 16 October, a flight of Austrian Air Force Eurofighters touched down at Klagenfurt, the civil airport of the southern state of Carinthia. Until Monday they will not train, not fly displays and not do circuits. They will sit on...
Share this story Every second a Saab Gripen is in the air, a computer is quietly stopping it from tumbling out of the sky. The Gripen was designed to be aerodynamically unstable, because an unstable jet turns harder and faster, and it only flies straight because its...
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