Switzerland's ambitious defence modernisation programme is unravelling on multiple fronts simultaneously. The Patriot missile system may cost double what Parliament approved. The F-35A fleet is shrinking before a single Swiss jet has been assembled. Germany — which...
The EA-37B Compass Call may be the most important aircraft most people have never heard of. While stealth fighters and strategic bombers capture public imagination, this modified Gulfstream G550 business jet quietly represents one of the most critical capabilities in...
In a sprawling maintenance hangar at Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas, a B-1B Lancer that had been grounded for years rolled back onto the flight line in May 2026, freshly repainted and bearing a name that reads like a sequel nobody expected: "Apocalypse II."...
The United States Senate has done something that would make Pete "Maverick" Mitchell proud — it unanimously voted to save the last three F-14 Tomcats from rusting into oblivion. On April 28, 2026, the "Maverick Act" sailed through the upper chamber without a single...
It is the question we hear more often than almost any other at MiGFlug: "Can I actually fly the fighter jet myself?" The short answer is no — you will not be alone in the cockpit. But the longer, far more interesting answer reveals why that restriction exists, what...
The future of urban air mobility is no longer a PowerPoint fantasy. In April 2026, Joby Aviation completed a landmark demonstration flight from JFK Airport to Manhattan in just seven minutes — a journey that can take over an hour by car during rush hour. With the FAA...
On a grey Welsh morning in early May, hikers lining the ridges above Cadair Idris heard the unmistakable rumble of twin Pratt & Whitney F100 engines reverberating off granite walls. Then it appeared: an F-15E Strike Eagle wearing a paint scheme that had not graced...
On the evening of Friday, May 9, 2026, the vast expanse of Denver International Airport — America's largest airport by area at 53 square miles — became the scene of a tragedy that has reignited urgent questions about perimeter security at the nation's sprawling...
In the grand tradition of aviation blunders that make you simultaneously cringe and laugh until your sides hurt, we present the tale of one unlucky traveler who learned the hard way that not all Santiagos are created equal. What was supposed to be a journey to the...
On May 2, 2026, a deplaning incident at Newark Liberty International Airport became the latest flashpoint in America's turbulent relationship with air travel etiquette — but with a twist no one expected. The woman at the center of the controversy filmed and posted the...
In 1989, an Ilyushin Il-62 — a four-engine Soviet jetliner designed for intercontinental routes — touched down on a grass field in Germany. Not a paved runway. Not an emergency strip. A grass field. For an aircraft that weighed over 70 tonnes empty and was built to...
On April 16, 2026, a Boeing CH-47F Chinook helicopter executed a fully automated landing. No hands on the controls. No feet on the pedals. The 64-year-old design descended, flared, and touched down under the authority of software — and did so with a position error of...
The 737 MAX crisis produced some of the most consequential aviation litigation in history. There were settlements with the families of the 346 victims. There were billion-dollar government penalties. There were executive depositions, congressional hearings, and a...
Vilnius Airport is being shut down by balloons. Not military balloons. Not weather balloons. Cigarette balloons — launched from Belarus, loaded with contraband, and drifting at altitudes that put them in direct conflict with commercial aircraft on final approach....
The Pentagon wants $1 billion to stop building drone wingman prototypes and start building drone wingman weapons. The difference matters — and the price tag signals just how seriously the Air Force is taking it. The FY2027 budget request, submitted to Congress this...
At 11:15 Moscow time on 12 May 2026, a plume of exhaust boiled out of a silo at Plesetsk Cosmodrome and the RS-28 Sarmat lifted from Russian soil for the first time in an operationally valid test. It was a moment that had been delayed, interrupted, and twice preceded...
Donald Trump promised a Golden Dome missile defense shield for $175 billion. The Congressional Budget Office has a different number: $1.2 trillion. Over twenty years. That is not a rounding error. That is a chasm between political promise and fiscal reality large...
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