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82nd Airborne Division doing a parachute drop

US builds ground force presence in Middle East with 82nd Airborne and Marine deployments

Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey…

March 26, 2026

Saab Gripen at Embraer final assembly line in Brazil

Rollout of first Embraer-built Saab Gripen E puts Brazil in elite club of supersonic fighter producers

Brazil

March 25, 2026

YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Drone in maiden flight

Anduril starts YFQ-44A Fury production in Ohio as CCA programme accelerates

Anduril

March 25, 2026

Eurofighter typhoon Türkiye

UK’s BAE Systems secures Eurofighter Typhoon training and support deal for Türkiye

BAE Systems

March 25, 2026

Ukrainian Yak-52 shoot down drone

Watch: Ukraine blows up Russian Shahed drone with machine gun…

Russia

March 25, 2026

Colombia Air Force C-130

Colombian president calls ex-USAF C-130H a ‘crappy’ gift after deadly…

Colombia

March 25, 2026

Skylark Labs AI FOD detection on aircraft carriers

Indian Navy tests AI system that spots debris on carrier…

Aircraft carrier

March 24, 2026

Saab GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft with Saab Gripen E fighter alongside

Saab strengthens GlobalEye bid with Canadian partnership as AEW&C decision…

AEW&C

March 24, 2026

Saab 340 AEW&Cs

Saab 340 airborne early warning aircraft appears over Ukraine for…

Saab 340 AEW&C

March 24, 2026

C-130 Hercules de la Fuerza Aérea Colombiana en Florencia.

66 killed in Colombian Air Force C-130 Hercules crash

C-130 Hercules

March 24, 2026

Dawn Aerospace's rocket powered spaceplane Aurora in the sky

Rocket-powered Aurora spaceplane tracked by navy in New Zealand defence…

Aurora

March 23, 2026

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Air Force B-1B Lancer prepares for takeoff in support of Bomber Task Force Europe at Dyess Air Force Base

B-1B bombers armed with JDAMs at RAF Fairford raise questions over UK role in Iran conflict

Iran

March 12, 2026

UK tour of Spitfire for 90 years

Rare chance to fly in a Spitfire as UK celebrates fighter’s 90th anniversary

Battle of Britain

March 11, 2026

Rendering of Rolls Royce Orpheus engine

Rolls-Royce targets CCA drone boom with AE 3007 and Orpheus engines

Collaborative Combat Aircraft

March 11, 2026

RAAF E-7A WEDGETAIL PARTICIPATES IN EXERCISE PACIFIC EDGE 21

Australia deploys Boeing E-7A Wedgetail to UAE amid Iran conflict

Australia

March 11, 2026

Darpa X-76 experimental VTOL aircraft

DARPA reveals X-76 X-plane designed for jet-speed runway-independent flight

Bell Textron

March 10, 2026

US Navy Grumman F-14 Tomcat

End of an era? Israeli strikes may have eliminated Iran’s last F-14 Tomcats

F-14 Tomcat

March 10, 2026

B-52 Superfortress ready for strikes

Watch: US bomber force grows at RAF Fairford as B-52s arrive for Iran strikes

Boeing B-52H Stratofortress

March 10, 2026

TEJAS Mk2

India’s AMCA stealth fighter research achieves near-perfect intake airflow efficiency

6th generation fighter jet

March 10, 2026

Embraer A-29 super tucano c-uas counter drone technology

Embraer integrates Valkyrie Gunslinger AI system on A-29 Super Tucano for counter-UAS missions

A-29 Super Tucano

March 9, 2026

Patriot PAC-3 missile defence

Can US missile defence intercept Iran’s Fattah-2 hypersonic weapon?

Drones

March 9, 2026

Ukrainian Dassault Mirage 2000

Ukraine expects two more Mirage 2000-5s from France in March

Dassault Mirage 2000-5F

March 9, 2026

Mahan Air A340-600

Israel destroys 16 commercial aircraft used by IRGC at Tehran airport

Airbus A340

March 9, 2026

Batch of Sukhoi Su-34 being delivered

Russia bombs itself at least 10 times in 2026 as glide bomb failures continue

glide bomb

March 9, 2026

CAE aerospace worker shortfall

International Women’s Day: Women in aerospace on what the industry gets right and where it still falls short

25by2025

March 8, 2026

KC-747 tanker of the Iran Air Force destroyed

The world’s last surviving Boeing 747-100 has been destroyed in Iran

Boeing 747

March 8, 2026

Saab 37 Viggen

Why do some fighter jets have extra wings on the nose?

Dassault Rafale

March 8, 2026

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