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Updated on Feb 13, 2023

F-16

F-16 Shoots Down “Octagonal Object” Over Lake Huron (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Feb 12, 2023

F-22

F-22 Shoots Down Another Object, This Time Over Canada (Updated)

By Stetson Payne

Posted on Feb 11, 2023

Mi8/Mi-17

Iraq Wants To Ditch Russian Mi-17s For U.S. Helicopters Over Ukraine War-Induced Parts Shortage

By Emma Helfrich, Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Feb 11, 2023

F-22

F-22 Shoots Down “Object” Flying High Over Alaskan Waters (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Updated on Feb 10, 2023

Typhoon

Here’s How Feasible The U.K. Giving Eurofighters To Ukraine Actually Is

By Jamie Hunter, Thomas Newdick

Posted on Feb 10, 2023

A-10

A-10 Warthog Emerges In New Camouflage

By Oliver Parken

Updated on Feb 10, 2023

Wide Area Aerial Surveillance

The Army Has Axed Its Dash-8 Surveillance Planes

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 9, 2023

Il-76

Here Is What Russia’s Military Aircraft And Missiles Actually Cost

By Piotr Butowski, Thomas Newdick

Posted on Feb 9, 2023

F-16

This Is How Long It Would Really Take Ukraine’s Pilots To Convert To F-16s

By Jamie Hunter, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 8, 2023

Royal Air Force

U.K. Commits To Training Ukrainian Fighter Pilots, Many Questions Remain

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Feb 8, 2023

F-4

Iran Unveils Underground ‘Fighter Caves’ Housing F-4 Phantoms

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 7, 2023

The Soviets Built Bespoke Balloon-Killer Planes During The Cold War

By Piotr Butowski

Posted on Feb 7, 2023

H-65

Our First Look At Chinese Spy Balloon Debris Being Recovered

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 7, 2023

F-22

The Shooting Down Of China’s Spy Balloon In Moment-By-Moment Audio

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Feb 7, 2023

Fighters

First Fighters Land Aboard India’s First Homegrown Aircraft Carrier

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Feb 6, 2023

U-2

U-2 Spy Planes Snooped On Chinese Surveillance Balloon

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 6, 2023

F-22

F-22 Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off Carolinas With Missile (Updated)

By Stetson Payne, Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 4, 2023

Wide Area Aerial Surveillance

Why Shooting Down China’s Spy Balloon Over The U.S. Is More Complicated Than It Seems

By Emma Helfrich, Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 4, 2023

Wide Area Aerial Surveillance

Chinese Spy Balloon Reaches Missouri

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 3, 2023

Wide Area Aerial Surveillance

China’s Spy Balloon Over Montana Is Part Of A Larger, More Troubling Pattern

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 3, 2023

C-130

C-130 Seaplane Program Put On Back Burner (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Updated on Feb 2, 2023

General Atomics MQ-9 Reapers offered to Ukraine

Q-9

MQ-9 Reapers Offered To Ukraine For $1, But Relevancy Questions Remain

By Emma Helfrich, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 2, 2023

OBSS

Gambit Drone Chosen To Fly Under Secretive Off-Board Sensing Station Program

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 2, 2023

Transports

Huge Ekranoplan-Like Airlifter Design Teams Selected By DARPA

By Oliver Parken, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 2, 2023

FLRAA

Bell’s 360 Invictus Readies For Flight But Still Has No Engine

By Dan Parsons

Posted on Feb 1, 2023

U.S. Air Force

Air Force Says It Needs More Survivable Tankers By 2040

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 1, 2023

Q-1

MQ-1C Has Air-Launched The Eaglet Drone On Its First Flight

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Feb 1, 2023

XQ-58

New Shots Of Stealthy XQ-58A Valkyrie Highlight Its Runway Independence

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 1, 2023

F-35

F-35s Have Debuted At Greenland’s Strategic Thule Air Base

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 31, 2023

B407

Bell Is Arming Its Civil Helicopters In Hopes Of Replacing Europe’s Russian Rotorcraft

By Dan Parsons

Posted on Jan 31, 2023

DARPA's Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept completes final flight

HAWC

DARPA’s Hypersonic Cruise Missile Flew Its Final Test, Follow-On To Come

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 31, 2023

Air-To-Ground

Intriguing Features Seen On Largely Intact Russia Cruise Missile Wreck

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 31, 2023

F-16

Ukraine Claims Poland In Talks To Transfer Its F-16s (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 30, 2023

Unmanned

Iran Claims It Has Come Under Drone Attack Following Explosions

By Stetson Payne

Posted on Jan 29, 2023

F-15

F-15E Strike Eagles Now Flying Without Conformal Fuel Tanks On Air Defense Missions

By Jamie Hunter

Posted on Jan 27, 2023

U.S. Air Force

Air Mobility Command Boss Predicts War With China In 2025 In Dire Memo

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 27, 2023

Fighters

France Is Considering Transferring Fighter Aircraft To Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 27, 2023

Air Combat Exercises

Air Force Aggressors More Relevant Than Ever At 50

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Jan 27, 2023

Su-25

Watch This Congolese Su-25 Get Popped By A Surface-To-Air Missile

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Jan 26, 2023

U.S. Air Force

Stealthy Tanker-Transport Aircraft Concept Unveiled By Boeing

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 26, 2023

Air Combat Exercises

Biggest U.S.-Israel War Games Ever Are Underway

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 26, 2023

Advanced Block 70 F-16 Viper flies for the first time

F-16

First Block 70 F-16 Has Flown From Lockheed’s New South Carolina Plant

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 25, 2023

Naval Aviation

Navy Pilot Who Secretly Killed Four MiGs On One Mission Finally Recognized

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 24, 2023

CH-53K

New USMC CH-53K King Stallion Helicopter Sling-Loads An F-35 (Updated)

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Jan 24, 2023

Piasecki Aircraft Corporations PA-97 experimental heavy-lift Helistat

The Monstrous Helistat Flew Just About As Good As It Looked

By Emma Helfrich

Updated on Jan 24, 2023

F-16

Watch Nine F-16s Make A Crazy-Looking ‘Attack’ On A Danish Airbase

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 23, 2023

F-15

F-15EX First Operational Units Will Not Get Conformal Fuel Tanks (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

F-16

Dutch Open To Transferring F-16 Jets To Ukraine (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

Israel Aerospace Industries Point Blank loitering munition bought by U.S. Defense Department

Loitering Munitions

Israeli X-Wing-Looking Loitering Munition To Be Tested By U.S. Special Ops

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

KC-135

New Nuke-Sniffing Jet Flies Off South America On First International Mission

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 19, 2023

People's Liberation Army Air Force (China)

Tailless Warplane Concept May Provide Clues To China’s Future Fighter Ambitions

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 18, 2023

F-35

Inside How The Marine’s Island-Hopping F-35B Playbook Is Being Written

By James Deboer

Posted on Jan 18, 2023

Unmanned

DARPA’s New X-Plane Aims To Maneuver With Nothing But Bursts Of Air

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 18, 2023

Helicopters

Error, Malfunction, Sabotage Investigated As Possible Fatal Ukrainian Helicopter Crash Causes (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 18, 2023

Air-Launched Hypersonic Missiles

Army Wants Supersonic Cruise Missile Interceptor For Its New Air Defense System

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 17, 2023

Russian Air Force

Russia’s Mi-28NM Attack Helicopter Seen Using New Anti-Armor Missile In Ukraine

By Piotr Butowski

Posted on Jan 17, 2023

Russian Air Force

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Says It Has No Defense Against Russia’s Kh-22 Missiles

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 17, 2023

People's Army of Vietnam trains with RC planed during military exercise

Unmanned

Vietnamese Soldiers Train With Radio-Controlled ‘Adversary’ Planes

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 14, 2023

Air-To-Ground

How Lockheed Doubled The Range Of Its Joint Air-To-Ground Missile

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 13, 2023

U.S. Air Force

Highly Anticipated Government Report On UFOs Very Thin On New Details

By Oliver Parken, Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 13, 2023

NGAD

The B-21 Raider Is And Isn’t A ‘B-2 Spirit 2.0’

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jan 11, 2023

F-35

F-35 Has Flown With Its New Computer Backbone For The First Time

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 11, 2023

Airborne Sensors

Unique Sensor Setup Emerges On Turkey’s Stealthy New Fighter

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 10, 2023

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Russia Also Has A Fleet Of Spy Balloons

F-16 Shoots Down “Octagonal Object” Over Lake Huron (Updated)

F-22 Shoots Down Another Object, This Time Over Canada (Updated)

Iraq Wants To Ditch Russian Mi-17s For U.S. Helicopters Over Ukraine War-Induced Parts Shortage

F-22 Shoots Down “Object” Flying High Over Alaskan Waters (Updated)

Here’s How Feasible The U.K. Giving Eurofighters To Ukraine Actually Is

A-10 Warthog Emerges In New Camouflage

The Army Has Axed Its Dash-8 Surveillance Planes

Here Is What Russia’s Military Aircraft And Missiles Actually Cost

This Is How Long It Would Really Take Ukraine’s Pilots To Convert To F-16s

U.K. Commits To Training Ukrainian Fighter Pilots, Many Questions Remain

Iran Unveils Underground ‘Fighter Caves’ Housing F-4 Phantoms

The Soviets Built Bespoke Balloon-Killer Planes During The Cold War

Our First Look At Chinese Spy Balloon Debris Being Recovered

The Shooting Down Of China’s Spy Balloon In Moment-By-Moment Audio

First Fighters Land Aboard India’s First Homegrown Aircraft Carrier

U-2 Spy Planes Snooped On Chinese Surveillance Balloon

F-22 Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off Carolinas With Missile (Updated)

Why Shooting Down China’s Spy Balloon Over The U.S. Is More Complicated Than It Seems

Chinese Spy Balloon Reaches Missouri

China’s Spy Balloon Over Montana Is Part Of A Larger, More Troubling Pattern

C-130 Seaplane Program Put On Back Burner (Updated)

MQ-9 Reapers Offered To Ukraine For $1, But Relevancy Questions Remain

Gambit Drone Chosen To Fly Under Secretive Off-Board Sensing Station Program

Huge Ekranoplan-Like Airlifter Design Teams Selected By DARPA

Bell’s 360 Invictus Readies For Flight But Still Has No Engine

Air Force Says It Needs More Survivable Tankers By 2040

MQ-1C Has Air-Launched The Eaglet Drone On Its First Flight

New Shots Of Stealthy XQ-58A Valkyrie Highlight Its Runway Independence

F-35s Have Debuted At Greenland’s Strategic Thule Air Base

Bell Is Arming Its Civil Helicopters In Hopes Of Replacing Europe’s Russian Rotorcraft

DARPA’s Hypersonic Cruise Missile Flew Its Final Test, Follow-On To Come

Intriguing Features Seen On Largely Intact Russia Cruise Missile Wreck

Ukraine Claims Poland In Talks To Transfer Its F-16s (Updated)

Iran Claims It Has Come Under Drone Attack Following Explosions

F-15E Strike Eagles Now Flying Without Conformal Fuel Tanks On Air Defense Missions

Air Mobility Command Boss Predicts War With China In 2025 In Dire Memo

France Is Considering Transferring Fighter Aircraft To Ukraine

Air Force Aggressors More Relevant Than Ever At 50

Watch This Congolese Su-25 Get Popped By A Surface-To-Air Missile

Stealthy Tanker-Transport Aircraft Concept Unveiled By Boeing

Biggest U.S.-Israel War Games Ever Are Underway

First Block 70 F-16 Has Flown From Lockheed’s New South Carolina Plant

Navy Pilot Who Secretly Killed Four MiGs On One Mission Finally Recognized

New USMC CH-53K King Stallion Helicopter Sling-Loads An F-35 (Updated)

The Monstrous Helistat Flew Just About As Good As It Looked

Watch Nine F-16s Make A Crazy-Looking ‘Attack’ On A Danish Airbase

F-15EX First Operational Units Will Not Get Conformal Fuel Tanks (Updated)

Dutch Open To Transferring F-16 Jets To Ukraine (Updated)

Israeli X-Wing-Looking Loitering Munition To Be Tested By U.S. Special Ops

New Nuke-Sniffing Jet Flies Off South America On First International Mission

Tailless Warplane Concept May Provide Clues To China’s Future Fighter Ambitions

Inside How The Marine’s Island-Hopping F-35B Playbook Is Being Written

DARPA’s New X-Plane Aims To Maneuver With Nothing But Bursts Of Air

Error, Malfunction, Sabotage Investigated As Possible Fatal Ukrainian Helicopter Crash Causes (Updated)

Army Wants Supersonic Cruise Missile Interceptor For Its New Air Defense System

Russia’s Mi-28NM Attack Helicopter Seen Using New Anti-Armor Missile In Ukraine

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Says It Has No Defense Against Russia’s Kh-22 Missiles

Vietnamese Soldiers Train With Radio-Controlled ‘Adversary’ Planes

How Lockheed Doubled The Range Of Its Joint Air-To-Ground Missile

Highly Anticipated Government Report On UFOs Very Thin On New Details

The B-21 Raider Is And Isn’t A ‘B-2 Spirit 2.0’

F-35 Has Flown With Its New Computer Backbone For The First Time

Unique Sensor Setup Emerges On Turkey’s Stealthy New Fighter

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