For European aviation enthusiasts, Aviatická pouť (the Aviation Fair) is an air show that needs no introduction. Having been organised for more than thirty years, it has become the largest civilian aviation event in the […]
At the beginning of July 2025, Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74 – TaktLwG 74 (the 74th Tactical Air Force Wing) of the German Air Force organised its traditional aviation event, the Medieval Mini Tiger Meet. Held every […]
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19PM (c/n 651045, formerly “1045” of Československé letectvo / the Czechoslovak Air Force), on display at an intersection in Líně, near the Plzeň-Líně airfield, July 2025 At the beginning of the 1950s, the Soviet […]
The 2025 edition of the Galileo SAR Meet took place from 4 to 8 August at Kbely Air Force Base in Prague, Czech Republic. Organised in cooperation with the European Union Space Programme and the […]
The Aerotechnik WGM.21 prototype, exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2025. In the 1960s, the German company Aerotechnik Entwicklung und Apparatebau GmbH (Aerotechnik Development and Equipment Manufacturing Ltd.), based in Frankfurt am Main, […]
The year 2025 marked aviation history with several notable farewells to iconic military aircraft. These included both well-known workhorses from the Cold War era and relatively newer designs that proved ineffective in the modern combat […]
In early December 2025, Boeing delivered the first flight-test aircraft for the B-52 Radar Modernization Program (RMP) to the United States Air Force (USAF). As announced by the company and the US Department of War, […]
Last year’s edition of Tag der Bundeswehr, the annual open day of the German Armed Forces, took place on 28 June 2025 at ten different military facilities across the country. As tradition dictates, the event […]
On 30 December 2025, Saab announced that it had signed a contract with Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA — the French General Directorate of Armaments) for the purchase of two GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning and […]
Last week, Airbus officially announced that the company had been awarded an order for one hundred military rotorcraft by the Spanish Ministry of Defence. The helicopters will be acquired under four separate contracts signed between […]
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