Italy Turns Away U.S. Bombers Mid-Flight

Italy Turns Away U.S. Bombers Mid-Flight

Related: Spain Bans American Warplanes from Its Skies Somewhere over the Atlantic, a group of U.S. bombers received a message no American military pilot expects to hear from a NATO ally: permission to land denied. Italy had blocked them from touching down at Sigonella...
Rheinmetall Signs Up for Ghost Bat

Rheinmetall Signs Up for Ghost Bat

Related: Germany’s Loyal Wingman Race Heats Up Four days ago, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius stood on a tarmac in Australia and said the words Boeing had been waiting years to hear: the MQ-28 Ghost Bat was “under consideration” for the...
Two-Kilo Missile Downs a Kamikaze Drone

Two-Kilo Missile Downs a Kamikaze Drone

Somewhere in northern Germany on March 30, a small drone the size of a dinner table locked onto a kamikaze UAV streaking toward its target. Without any human input, it classified the threat, selected a weapon, and fired. The missile — weighing less than two kilograms...
Spain Bans American Warplanes from Its Skies

Spain Bans American Warplanes from Its Skies

Fifteen U.S. military aircraft lifted off from southern Spain on Sunday and scattered across Europe. Nine KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling planes flew north to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Two flights headed for southern France. Four more simply disappeared from...