AERONAUT News

Over 60 Targets: Unmanned Systems Forces Strike “Orion” UAV, Air Defense Assets, and Russian Logistics

On the night of June 23, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces carried out a series of strikes against enemy targets in temporarily occupied Crimea and...

Weapons in the war against drug cartels: Honduras to purchase Ukrainian drones

Honduras plans to purchase Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles to counter drug trafficking and strengthen border security, according to an announcement made today by the...

SpaceX to Send Revolutionary Starfall Cargo Capsule into Orbit

In the near future, SpaceX’s orbital capsule Starfall may become a platform for deploying military cargo directly from space. The Starfall system is planned...

SpaceX Dominance: Elon Musk’s Company Has Launched More Satellites into Orbit Than the Rest of the World Combined

SpaceX has reached another notable milestone that highlights its dominant position in the launch industry. Elon Musk’s company has now placed more spacecraft into...

Hunting submarines: Boeing upgrades P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft for the U.S. Navy

The U.S. Navy has signed a major agreement with Boeing valued at approximately $880 million. The primary purpose of this funding is to significantly...

Voronezh under attack: Ukraine strikes a plant producing electronics for Iskander and Kh-101 missiles

Ukraine has carried out another successful strike on a key component of the Russian military-industrial complex. On June 22, units of the Air Force...

Bell Completes Wings for Two MV-75 Cheyenne II Aircraft as Tiltrotor Program Moves Closer to Testing

Bell announced the completion of wing structures for the first two MV-75 Cheyenne II tiltrotor aircraft being built for the U.S. Army. The milestone...

Frozen Russian Assets to Work for Ukraine: Britain to Finance 150,000 Drones

Frozen Russian sovereign assets will be used to finance the supply of 150,000 drones to Ukraine under a new aid package from the United...

Electric-Powered Record Breaker: China Develops the Largest Electric Rocket in History

Chinese startup Spark Space has successfully completed several consecutive funding rounds to support the development of a new launch vehicle that, according to the...

Ukrainian Ukrspecsystems Unveils Revolutionary One Punch Drone Designed to Hunt Shahed UAVs

Ukrainian company Ukrspecsystems has announced the launch of its latest product, the One Punch, a specialized unmanned aerial system designed primarily for the interception...

Extreme Pace: Pentagon Radically Accelerates Testing of the Secretive B-21 Raider

A further illustration of the drive to accelerate defense programs is the U.S. Air Force’s decision to involve an active operational pilot in joint...

Operation Deep Strike: Ukrainian UAVs Conducted a Coordinated Large-Scale Strike on Oil Refineries in Moscow and Across Regions of the Russian Federation

On the night of Thursday, 18 June, reports emerged from the Russian Federation of a large-scale interception of Ukrainian UAVs. According to available information,...

Warehouses, Command Posts, and Logistics Hubs: Ukraine’s 147th Separate Artillery Brigade Conducts Its First Middle Strikes on Russian Rear-Area Targets

The 7th Rapid Response Corps of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces continues to expand its capability to engage targets in the enemy’s operational rear...

Tehran threatens Elon Musk: Ukraine could save SpaceX

The Iranian regime has issued threats against Elon Musk’s business interests in the Middle East, stating its intention to target his space-related projects. At...

Fatal Su-24M Crash in Khmelnytskyi Region: Ukrainian Air Force Identifies Fallen Pilots

A tragic incident in the skies over the Khmelnytskyi region claimed the lives of the crew of a Ukrainian Su-24M frontline bomber. The fatal...

A New Step Toward Lunar Exploration: Astrobotic Presents the Griffin-1 Lander

Astrobotic has presented the Griffin-1 robotic lunar lander for the NASA Moon Base II mission. The spacecraft is described as part of the initial...

Russian Tu-22M3 crashes in Irkutsk region far from the front line

On Monday, June 15, 2026, a strategic Tupolev Tu-22M3 bomber-missile carrier crashed in Russia’s Irkutsk region. Initial reports of the incident emerged through Russian Telegram...

Ukraine presents the DRAGON system: Adapting air-to-air missiles for air defense applications

Ukrainian developers presented the ground-based missile system DRAGON at the international defence exhibition Eurosatory in Paris. The system was demonstrated by the Center of...

No One Suspected It: Pokémon Go Data Helped Train a Navigation System for Military Drones

Do you remember Pokémon Go? At its peak, the game prompted millions of people around the world to walk city streets in search of...

American company makes history with the first flight of an electric aircraft powered by solid-state batteries

The non-profit organization Helios Horizon, based in Florida, USA, announced the successful completion of what it describes as the first piloted flight of an...