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News & Features

Ukraine’s Scythe Drone Is All About Striking Far Away As Cheaply As Possible

By Oliver Parken, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 19, 2023

Video footage has emerged appearing to show the first use of the Spike FireFly loitering munition in the current conflict in Gaza.
News & Features

Israel’s FireFly Urban Warfare Drone Spotted In Jenin

By Howard Altman

Posted on Dec 18, 2023

F-15EX To Be Based At Kadena Air Base In Japan: Report
Air

F-15EX To Be Based At Kadena Air Base In Japan: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 18, 2023

AEW&C aircraft in North Korea.
News & Features

North Korea May Be Building An Early-Warning Radar Plane

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 15, 2023

A tank miraculously survives an FPV drone barrage.
News & Features

Tank Runs For Its Life Under Constant Barrage Of Attack Drones

By Howard Altman

Posted on Dec 14, 2023

The U.S. can learn lessons from Israel operates its F-35I fleet.
Air

Israel’s F-35I Combat Experience Is Providing Lessons For Future Pacific Fight

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 13, 2023

A picture has emerged offering a rare glimpse of ongoing work to field new B61-12 nuclear bombs in Europe.
Air

First Picture Of B61-12 Nuclear Bomb Trainer On An F-16 In Europe Surfaces

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 13, 2023

Lockheed Martin recently demonstrated key capabilities of the new AN/ALQ-248 Advanced Off-Board Electronic Warfare system in a milestone test.
Sea

Electronic Warfare Pod To Give Navy Helicopters Anti-Ship Missile Defense Capabilities

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 13, 2023

Mojave drone landing on HMS Prince of Wales
Air

Mojave Drone’s Carrier Debut Shown In Greater Detail In Video

By Joseph Trevithick, Oliver Parken

Posted on Dec 12, 2023

QSRA (NASA-715) carrier trials onboard Kitty Hawk off San Diego, CA (Quiet Short-Haul Aircraft is a modified C-8A)
Space

NASA’s Quiet Short Takeoff And Landing Test Jet Is Up For Sale

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 12, 2023

The US military has released an unusual video showing an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship conducting live-fire training the Caribbean. This comes as a major crisis in the region between Guyana and Venezuela.
Air

Unusual AC-130J Gunship Caribbean Training Video Released

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 12, 2023

A Chinook Helicopter flies over a military camp, as part of a rehearsal for the flyby performance for Taiwan’s Double-Ten National Day Celebration, amid rising tensions between Beijing and Taipei and threats from China, in Taoyuan, Taiwan, 28 September 2021. The 18-meter wide and 12-meter long Taiwan flag, according to state media Central News Agency, will be carried by two CH-47 Chinook helicopters flag flying over the Presidential Office, in addition to a parade displaying the island’s missile systems which will showcase the armed forces' ability to resist threats from China. (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto)
News & Features

Taiwanese Pilot Planned CH-47 Defection To China: Reports

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Dec 12, 2023

X-32 National Museum Of The United States Air Force
Air

X-32’s Makeover: Before And After

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 11, 2023

A new draft of the annual U.S. defense policy bill for the 2024 Fiscal Year, which looks set to pass in Congress and become law, would require the Air Force and the Navy to provide new details about the expected costs and capabilities of their future Collaborative Combat Aircraft drones.
Air

Loyal Wingman Drone Cost, Capability Concerns Emerge In Defense Bill

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Dec 8, 2023

Royal Navy Activates First F-35B Unit, Big Decisions On Type’s Future Loom
Sea

Royal Navy Activates First F-35B Unit, Big Decisions On Type’s Future Loom

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 8, 2023

A Hawker Hunter Mk 58 jet belonging to private contractor ATAC ended up in a grassy field at Naval Air Station Key West after an aborted takeoff on December 6, 2023.
Air

Hawker Hunter Aggressor Jet Ends Up In Field After Aborted Takeoff

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 7, 2023

V-22 Ospreys worldwide have been grounded following a fatal crash on November 29, 2023.
Air

All V-22 Ospreys Grounded Worldwide (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 7, 2023

SU-35s escort putin on his way to the middle east.
News & Features

Putin Flies To UAE With Su-35 Fighter Escorts (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 7, 2023

An Israeli Air Force F-16 launches the IMI Systems Rampage standoff missile.
News & Features

Indian Navy MiG-29s Get Israeli Rampage Standoff Weapon

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 6, 2023

Originally, the ROCAF also expected to receive 144 F-16Vs, produced as conversions of its existing F-16A/B jets, but this number has since been reduced to 141 through attrition in its existing Viper fleet.
News & Features

Taiwan’s Final Upgraded F-16V Completes Test Flights

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 6, 2023

Claims are swirling that Ukrainian forces used a Patriot surface-to-air missile to bring down a Russian Su-24M combat jet over the Black Sea.
News & Features

Russian Su-24 Shot Down Over Black Sea Points To Tactical Shift

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 6, 2023

Boeing Exits Air Force’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ Competition (Updated)
Air

Boeing Exits Air Force’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ Competition (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 5, 2023

A R-73 air-to-air missile pictured at a residential address in Venezuela
News & Features

R-73 Air-To-Air Missile Seized From Venezuelan Man’s Backyard

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Dec 5, 2023

The Navy has provided details about how it recovered a P-8A aircraft that overshot the runway and ended up in Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii last month.
Sea

How The Navy Got Its P-8A Poseidon Out Of The Water In Hawaii

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 4, 2023

Stratolaunch Roc aircraft conducts a captive-carry test flight with the Talon-A hypersonic vehicle.
News & Features

World’s Largest Plane Is One Step Closer To Launching A Hypersonic Vehicle

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 4, 2023

Chinese Flanker photographed with PL-17 very long-range air-to-air missile
News & Features

Massive PL-17 Air-To-Air Missile Seen On Chinese J-16 Fighters

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 2, 2023

F-35C lands aboard the carrier with mirror coating on its tails.
Air

F-35C With Mirror-Like Coating Photographed Aboard Carrier

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 2, 2023

ADM-160 MALD
News & Features

ADM-160 Miniature Air Launched Decoy Wreck Appears In Ukraine

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Dec 2, 2023

The F-35 Joint Program Office is oversee a project to create a single operational "Franken-bird" from two seriously damaged F-35A Joint Strike Fighters.
Air

F-35 “Franken-Bird” Being Made From Two Badly Damaged Jets

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 1, 2023

View of Su-25 attack jet decoy soon through optics of a Lancet loitering munition.
Air

Ukrainian Su-25 Struck By Lancet Drone Was An Elaborate Decoy

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 1, 2023

Defense contractor Anduril has unveiled a novel and highly reusable air vehicle that can be used as an anti-air interceptor and in other roles.
Land

Roadrunner Reusable Anti-Air Interceptor Breaks Cover

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 1, 2023

The German Air Force is now formally on track to get 15 Typhoon EK electronic warfare jets.
News & Features

Electronic Warfare Typhoon EK Fighter To Join German Air Force

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 30, 2023

This versatile, self-deployable aircraft offers increased speed and range over other rotary-wing aircraft, enabling Air Force Special Operations Command aircrews to execute long-range special operations missions. The CV-22 can perform missions that normally would require both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. The CV-22 takes off vertically and, once airborne, the nacelles (engine and prop-rotor group) on each wing can rotate into a forward position.
Air

Calls For V-22 Osprey Grounding In Japan After Fatal Crash

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 30, 2023

No, This Is Not A Secret UFO Crash Retrieval
Air

No, This Is Not A Secret UFO Crash Retrieval

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 30, 2023

A Ukrainian FPV drone chased a Russian soldier around a cart before exploding on him.
News & Features

Russian Soldier’s Desperate Attempt To Fight Off FPV Drone With A Stick Seen In Video

By Howard Altman

Posted on Nov 30, 2023

A CV-22 Osprey from the 21st Special Operations Squadron flies in support of exercise Resolute Dragon 22 over Kamifurano Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Oct. 11, 2022. Resolute Dragon 22 is an annual bilateral exercise designed to strengthen the defensive capabilities of the U.S.-Japan Alliance by exercising integrated command and control, targeting, combined arms, and maneuver across multiple domains.
Air

CV-22B Osprey Tilt-Rotor Crashes Off Japanese Coast

By Thomas Newdick, Howard Altman

Posted on Nov 29, 2023

CCAs flying with notional NGAD manned aircraft.
Air

Signs Point To Less Range, Higher Performance For CCA Drones

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 28, 2023

FCAS NGF
News & Features

Belgium Joins European Next-Generation Fighter Program

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 28, 2023

The B61-12 nuclear bomb is now officially in the U.S. stockpile and approved for employment from the B-2A Spirit stealth bomber.
Air

B-2 Spirit Now Operational With New B61-12 Nuclear Bombs

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 28, 2023

Patriot missile shoot down Russian plane.
News & Features

Aircraft Downed Inside Russia By Patriot System: Ukrainian Air Force

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Nov 28, 2023

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Brandon CarmonaTadeo, a CH-53E Super Stallion crew chief assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 165 (Reinforced), 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducts pre-flight checks on a Super Stallion before flight operations aboard the amphibious transport dock USS Somerset (LPD 25) in the Pacific Ocean, Nov. 15, 2023. The 15th MEU is currently embarked aboard the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group conducting integrated training and routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet
Air

CH-53E’s Rotor Mast Absolutely Dwarfs Marine Sitting On It

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Nov 27, 2023

B-21 raider T-shirt
Air

Celebrate B-21 Raider’s First Flight With This Ghostly T-Shirt

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 27, 2023

Air defense work outside the city on November 25, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. According to the country's air force, more than 70 Iranian-made Shahed drones targeted the Kyiv area overnight, although most all were intercepted by air defenses.
News & Features

Russia Launches Largest Mass Drone Attack On Ukraine Yet

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 25, 2023

Iranian Shahed-238 drone at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) aerospace achievement exhibition at Ashura Aerospace Science and Technology University, in Tehran, Iran on November 19, 2023.
News & Features

Iran’s Jet-Powered Shahed Drone Could Be A Problem For Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 22, 2023

The US Air Force's future EC-37B electronic warfare jets are now EA-37Bs, which is meant to highlight their ability to not only find and attack various types of targets, but destroy them.
Air

New ‘Attack’ EA-37B Moniker For USAF Electronic Warfare Jets

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 21, 2023

M55 Spy Plane may be headed for Ukraine war operations
News & Features

Soviet-Era M-55 Spy Plane May Be Headed To Support The War In Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 21, 2023

A top Pentagon watchdog has raises concerns about the Navy's aggressive schedule for the MQ-25 tanker drone and the potential risks thereof.
Air

MQ-25 Stingray Tanker Delays, Risks Come Into View

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 21, 2023

AC-130J attacked a target in iraq after attacks on US bases there.
Air

AC-130 Ghostrider Gunship Strikes Iranian-Backed Militia In Iraq

By Howard Altman

Posted on Nov 21, 2023

Navy P8 Hawaii
Sea

Navy P-8A Poseidon Runs Off Runway Into The Water In Hawaii (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 21, 2023

Lockheed manned tailless fighter design
News & Features

Skunk Works Teases Tailless NGAD Fighter Design In New Ad

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 20, 2023

The U.S. Air Force is exploring the possibility of augmenting, rather than replacing its C-32A Air Force Two jets.
Air

New Plan To Augment C-32A ‘Air Force Two’ Fleet, Not Replace It

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 20, 2023

Drone capture shows the detonation of a purported standoff guided version of the RBK-500 cluster bomb in Ukraine.
News & Features

Russian Glide Bomb Kits Now Adapted For Cluster Munitions: Reports

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 20, 2023

US Special Operations Command is interested in acquiring loitering munitions with seekers optimized for finding and homing in on enemy electronic warfare systems.
News & Features

Electronic Warfare System Hunting Drones Wanted By SOCOM

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 17, 2023

Mojave Drone lands on aircraft carrier
Air

Mojave Drone Flies From British Aircraft Carrier

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 17, 2023

Aurora Flight Sciences is developing a fan-in-wing blended wing body aircraft concept as part of a U.S. military program exploring ideas for a fast-flying vertical takeoff and landing cargo aircraft.
News & Features

VTOL Lift Fan Tactical Transport Design Emerges Under DARPA Program

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 16, 2023

The USS Hudner came under attack by a Houthi drone and shot it down, a U.S. official told The War Zone.
Sea

U.S. Warship Shoot Down Of Drone Over Red Sea Leads To Conflicting Assessments

By Howard Altman

Posted on Nov 16, 2023

Qatar's F-15QA has been showing off like no variant of the F-15 before it at the Dubai Airshow this week.
Air

F-15QA Flies Demo Unlike Any We’ve Seen From An Eagle Before

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 15, 2023

Concept artwork of the NATO E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft in flight.
Air

E-7 Wedgetail Radar Jet Chosen By NATO To Replace Aging E-3

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 15, 2023

A commercial KDC‐10 tanker aircraft refuels a U.S. Air Force F‐16 Fighting Falcon from the 51st Fighter Wing, enroute Commando Sling 23 at Paya Lebar Air Base, Singapore, November 6, 2023.
Air

Private Aerial Refueling Tankers Are Now Gassing Up USAF Fighters

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Nov 15, 2023

Official rendering of F-35 carrying two external LRASM missiles.
Sea

Navy Looks To Arm F-35 With Four New Missiles, Including Hellfire

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 14, 2023

Russian air launched cruise missile
News & Features

Takeaways From Russia’s Missile War On Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 14, 2023

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall has offered new details about his service's plans for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.
Air

CCA Loyal Wingmen Drones To Cost Quarter To Third Of An F-35

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 14, 2023

B-21 first flight
Air

B-21 Raider’s First Flight: What We Learned

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 10, 2023

F-35 drops B61-12 during a test at Edwards AFB
Air

Dutch F-35s Gain Nuclear Strike Mission “Initial Certification”

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 10, 2023