Riyadh Air Wants the Bigger Dreamliner

Riyadh Air Wants the Bigger Dreamliner

The first big order of Farnborough 2026 landed before most of the stands had finished setting up. Riyadh Air, the Saudi carrier that flew its first paying passenger barely three weeks ago, spent Monday morning committing to 34 more widebody aircraft across both Boeing...
Cómo funciona realmente la Force de Frappe

Cómo funciona realmente la Force de Frappe

France is the only member of NATO that delivers part of its nuclear deterrent from a fighter cockpit, and the only one whose deterrent answers to nobody outside Paris. Last week two French Rafales flew alongside German Eurofighters in the first joint activity of a new...
El interceptor que no te puedes permitir

El interceptor que no te puedes permitir

On 9 July, eight Iranian ballistic missiles were fired at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. All eight were intercepted. Nobody was hurt, nothing was damaged, and the incident barely registered outside the region. Eight days later the same base was attacked again, and...
El arma que no dispara nada

El arma que no dispara nada

There is an aircraft in most modern strike packages that carries no bombs, has no air-to-air kills, and will never appear on a recruiting poster. It is usually converted from something else, it is frequently ugly, and if it fails, everyone else dies. Electronic attack...
La bomba diseñada para fallar

La bomba diseñada para fallar

Every bomb ever built before 1944 was designed to hit the thing it was aimed at. Barnes Wallis built two that were designed to land next to it. This was not a compromise or an admission that bombing was inaccurate. It was the entire principle. Wallis had worked out...