Japan's newest and most unusual-looking military aircraft — the Kawasaki EC-2 stand-off jammer, nicknamed the "Platypus" for its ungainly but purpose-built shape — completed its maiden flight on March 17, 2026, lifting off from Gifu Air Base at 11:30 AM local time and...
A B-52H Stratofortress has been photographed in flight over California carrying two inert examples of the AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile — the nuclear-armed weapon system designed to replace the United States' aging AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile fleet...
At 7:33 in the morning on June 10, 1990, British Airways Captain Tim Lancaster was sitting in his seat at 17,300 feet over Oxfordshire when his windscreen exploded outward — and he went with it.What followed in the next twenty minutes is one of the most extraordinary...