Aviation

The Fulcrum: When it's good but it's bad. When the Berlin wall fell, a newly reunified Germany ended up with...

Drones versus SAMs: Future Warfare. The rise of drone warfare has highlighted one serious issue: A lot of SAM batteries...

Flashback: Su-25 Frogfoot. It looks like a scene out of Afghanistan in the 1980's when the Soviets were there, with...

Luftwaffe's last battle. The German air service was created clandestinely in 1933. It saw action between 1936 and 1939 during...

Tu-22M3M: Modernisation of a Cold War bomber. The Tu-22M3 is getting bumped to the Tu-22M3M standards. The RuAF currently operates...

JF-17: Chinese skin, Russian DNA. From Izdeliye-33/project-33 to JF-17/FC-1. In the early-1980's, the Soviets already had a High/Low mix of...

MiG-31BM crash: Cover up uncovered. The Foxhound that crashed in April 2017 was actually shot down in a friendly fire...

MiG-31 and Kinzhal: From defence to offense.The Foxhound was designed as a defensive platform, an interceptor that could counter high...

Louis Blériot across the Channel: 25th July 1909. 111 years ago, Louis Blériot's plane successfully crossed the English Channel! On...

Stuka in 1941: The age of Close Air Support. The Stuka was tested in very small numbers in Spain before...