Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

"There should be no Russian energy in Europe," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared after Kyiv's most recent long-range UAV strike that put Russia's largest gas processing plant offline. The October 19 UAV attack on Gazprom's Orenburg plant, which was a center for both Russian and Kazakh gas flows, was...

Versatility overcame purity. No aircraft during the Cold War era represented this adage more fully than did the F-4 Phantom II. It was conceived in the late 1950s as a United States Navy fleet defender but came to be the West's do-anything jet fighter, bomber, reconnaissance vehicle, and radar...

"One is only as good a fighter aircraft as the ordnance that can be carried," said a seasoned aerospace engineer. In contemporary air combat, this maxim is reinforced through the unstinting demands for stealth, for accuracy, and for multi-role capability. Though China is believed to develop some aircraft with...