Air (Page 6)

Posted on Jun 18, 2026

Air Force One

No, A VC-25A Air Force One Jet Isn’t Being Retired Just Yet

Posted on Jun 18, 2026

Q-9

MQ-9 Getting Airborne Early Warning Radar Is A Huge Deal

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jun 18, 2026

Collaborative Combat Aircraft

USAF Orders Both General Atomics’ FQ-42 And Anduril’s FQ-44 Into Production

Posted on Jun 17, 2026

E-11

Senators Want Answers On USAF Plans To Cut E-11 BACN Combat Communications Jets

Posted on Jun 17, 2026

Unmanned

Alleged Plot On White House UFC Fight Puts Drone Threat In The Spotlight

Posted on Jun 16, 2026

B-52

B-52 Involved In Tragic Crash Was Heading Out On Radar Test Sortie

Posted on Jun 16, 2026

Air Forces

China’s Big R6000 Tiltrotor Drone Has Entered Full Flight Testing

Posted on Jun 16, 2026

B-52

B-52 Bomber Crashes At Edwards Air Force Base In California (Updated)

Updated on Jun 15, 2026

Bunker Busters

Bunker Busters With Winged JDAM-ER Kits Could Allow For Near Horizontal Strikes On Fortified Targets

Posted on Jun 15, 2026

A-10

A Disciplined Case For The A-10 The Air Force Won’t Make

By Paul "Gu$" Garcia

Posted on Jun 15, 2026

Tu-22

Russian Tu-22M3 Swing-Wing Bomber Seen Plunging Into The Ground

Posted on Jun 15, 2026

A-10

A-10 Warthogs Arrive In England Festooned With Nose Art And Mission Markings From Epic Fury

Posted on Jun 13, 2026

T-45

Boeing Drops Out Of Navy’s T-45 Jet Trainer Replacement Competition

Posted on Jun 12, 2026

Fighters

Germany And Spain Launch ‘Team Gen 6’ After Europe’s Next-Gen Fighter Effort Collapses

Posted on Jun 12, 2026

U-2

Four U-2S Spy Planes Would Be Restored In Bill That Would Save The Dragon Lady Fleet

Posted on Jun 12, 2026

F-22

F-22’s ‘Catfish’ 757 Testbed Spotted Carrying Raptor’s New Infrared Sensor Pod

Posted on Jun 11, 2026

C-17

Boeing “Encouraged” By C-17 Production Restart Discussions

Posted on Jun 11, 2026

F-16

Kongsberg Bets On High-Low Cruise Missile Mix With JSM And Rusty Dagger

Posted on Jun 11, 2026

MQ-28

Boeing’s New Larger Ghost Bat Can Carry AIM-120 AMRAAMs Internally

By TWZ

Posted on Jun 10, 2026

Is This Secretive Air Force 737 About To Become NASA’s Next ‘Vomit Comet’? (Updated)

Posted on Jun 10, 2026

Air

Germany’s Cobra 600 Is A Jet Powered Interceptor Drone That Slings An IRIS-T Missile

Posted on Jun 10, 2026

AH-64

AH-64 Apache Shot Down By Iran, U.S. Will Retaliate: Trump (Updated)

Updated on Jun 9, 2026

Unmanned

Inside Ukraine’s AI-Enabled Drone Campaign Targeting Russian Logistics Deep Behind The Lines

Posted on Jun 9, 2026

Collaborative Combat Aircraft

Ravenstorm At The Center Of Airbus’s New Combat Drone Portfolio

Posted on Jun 9, 2026

AH-64

AH-64 Apache Crew Rescued By Drone Boat After Going Down Near Strait Of Hormuz (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jun 9, 2026

Air Force One

VC-25B Air Force One “Bridge” Aircraft Now Wears Trump’s Preferred Red, White, and Blue Paint Job

Posted on Jun 9, 2026

French Air Force

Franco-German Future Fighter Effort Collapses Over Irreconcilable Differences

Posted on Jun 8, 2026

KC-135

KC-135 Tanker Spotted With New Satellite Communications Antenna

Posted on Jun 8, 2026

Helicopters

Airbus Unveils U145 Uncrewed Cargo Helicopter

Posted on Jun 8, 2026

Rafale

Video Captures Rafale Fighter’s Drone Kill Over Baltic

Posted on Jun 8, 2026

F-47

F-47’s Exotic Shape Was Hiding In Plain Sight On A Unit Patch

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jun 7, 2026

A-10

A-10 Cockpit And Walk-Around Tour With A Warthog Weapons Instructor

By Jamie Hunter

Posted on Jun 7, 2026

H-53

Confessions Of A Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon Minehunter Pilot

Updated on Jun 5, 2026

F-47

Area 51 Mystery Aircraft Prompts Interest In “Christmas Tree” Stealth Fighter Concept

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jun 5, 2026

Q-9

USAF Scrambling To Buy What Few MQ-9 Reapers It Can Find After Epic Fury Losses

By Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 5, 2026

A-10

Congress Throws A-10 Warthog Another Lifeline

Posted on Jun 5, 2026

Q-9

USAF Wants “MQ-9 Next” Reaper Replacement To Be Modular, Cheap

Posted on Jun 4, 2026

F-47

Is This A Glimpse Of The Aircraft That Gave Birth To The F-47?

By Thomas Newdick, Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jun 4, 2026

Harrier

The Hidden History of America’s Harrier Jump Jets

By Michael Pryce

Posted on Jun 3, 2026

Harrier

The USMC’s AV-8B Harrier Has Flown Off Into The Sunset

Posted on Jun 3, 2026

Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)

Any Plans For Direct U-28 Draco Special Ops Surveillance Plane Replacement Abandoned

Posted on Jun 2, 2026

Ukrainian Air Force

Are Ukrainian Mirage 2000s Now Flying Air-To-Ground Strike Missions?

Posted on Jun 2, 2026

Next Generation Penetrator Bomb Slated To Replace MOP Has Been Designated GBU-76

Posted on Jun 2, 2026

Q-1

Is The U.S. Flying MQ-1 Predator Drones Again?

Posted on Jun 1, 2026

Turkish Air Force

Turkey’s Secretive Electronic Warfare Jet Appears In New Imagery

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jun 1, 2026

MQ-28

MQ-28 Ghost Bat Now Flying Over The Pacific From U.S. Navy Base

Posted on May 28, 2026

Russian Air Force

New Counter-Drone Optimized Pantsir Air Defense System Being Deployed Atop Skyscrapers In Moscow

Posted on May 28, 2026

Army Wants More Sensor-Laden Surveillance Balloons Over The Pacific

Posted on May 28, 2026

Severity Of America’s Depleted Advanced Weapons Stockpiles Detailed In New Report

Posted on May 28, 2026

Gripen

Ukrainian Gripen Fighters To Arrive In 2027, Long-Range Meteor Missiles Claimed To Be Included

Posted on May 28, 2026

Fighters

Airbus Looks To Sweden’s Saab As Europe’s Sixth-Gen Fighter Plans Unravel

Posted on May 27, 2026

F/A-18E/F

F/A-18 Super Hornets Eyed To Replace Navy’s Remaining F-5 Adversaries

Posted on May 27, 2026

Unmanned

Israeli Troops Turn To Fishing Nets For Protection Against Hezbollah FPV Drones

Posted on May 27, 2026

Airborne Communications

Cost To Link LUCAS Kamikaze Drones To Starlink Highlights Pentagon’s Ever-Growing Dependence On SpaceX

Posted on May 27, 2026

KC-135

Another Battle Damaged KC-135 Tanker Seen Passing Through RAF Mildenhall

Posted on May 26, 2026

Air

China’s “Bohai Sea Monster” Reappears With Apparent Weapons Hardpoints

Posted on May 25, 2026

USAF’s New Turbocharged ULTRA Surveillance Drones Are Heading To The Middle East

Posted on May 25, 2026

Royal Air Force

The Tiny Chipmunk Trainer Was The Cold War’s Most Unlikely Spyplane

Posted on May 24, 2026

F-16

We Finally See The Mysterious Object Shot Down By F-16s Over Lake Huron

Posted on May 22, 2026

A-10

A-10 Warthog’s New Aerial Refueling Probe Is Now Operational In The Middle East

Posted on May 22, 2026

MH-47

Night Stalker MH-47 Chinooks May Get Aerial Refueling Tanker Role

Posted on May 21, 2026

Air

U.S. Military’s Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clone Is Getting Hivemind Swarming Capability