Share this story For almost four years after its unveiling, the most basic number about America’s newest bomber was a guessing game. How far does the B-21 Raider reach from wingtip to wingtip? The Air Force never said. Northrop Grumman never said. Then a...
Share this story At about 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, a French Mirage 2000D on its way home to Nancy-Ochey vanished from radar over the wooded hills of Meurthe-et-Moselle. Residents of Rogéville, north-west of Nancy, heard a detonation that shook their...
Share this story For three decades, the antenna field outside Gakona, Alaska, has been the most misunderstood radio transmitter in the world. Now the US military has given it a job conspiracy theorists never predicted: lighting up aircraft far beyond the horizon so...
Share this story “Pitch oscillation” is one of those phrases that sounds mild right up until you read what the Federal Aviation Administration thinks it can turn into. On Monday the agency published a final rule ordering operators of almost two thousand...
Share this story Somewhere behind the cockpit of every late-model US Air Force F-16 sits a box that does the thinking. It takes in radar tracks, weapons data and datalink traffic and turns them into what the pilot sees. On the Block 40/42 and 50/52 jets, that box...
Share this story Rain had the last word on Sunday. On Monday, 19 October 2026, the Indian Air Force’s Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team came back to Mysuru and flew the show the city had been waiting for. The team’s red-and-white BAE Hawk Mk132 jets arrived over...
Share this story Somewhere over Kansas, a white Cessna jet has been flying itself to the ground on purpose. Textron Aviation test pilots have been pressing the button that every owner hopes never to touch, and watching the airplane pick an airport, talk to air traffic...
Share this story For six years, a pale smudge in a satellite photo of a Pacific lagoon kept one of aviation’s oldest questions alive. Seen from orbit, the shape near Nikumaroro’s Taraia Peninsula looked long, bright and suspiciously metallic. Up close, it...
Share this story The people who will one day sign off on America’s next fighters spend most of their year in places like the Mojave Desert, where the runways are endless and the ground is bone dry. This autumn, some of them traded concrete for open water,...
Share this story LATAM flight LA2302 never left Lima for Piura. On the morning of Monday 19 October 2026, a LATAM Airlines Perú Airbus A320 caught fire on the ground at Lima’s Jorge Chávez International Airport, minutes from departure. Videos shared by...
Share this story Somewhere along Ukraine’s front line, a wounded infantryman sat alone in a position he could not leave. The ground around him was mined. Russian drones watched the approaches. The robot vehicles that now carry so many of Ukraine’s...
Share this story For years the cheapest way to swat a drone out of the sky has been hiding in plain sight: a 2.75-inch rocket family that dates back to the early Cold War, with a laser seeker bolted into its middle. Now the Pentagon wants that seeker by the truckload....
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