Weapons of Ukrainian Victory: The An-28 as an Air Defense Aircraft
This morning a striking photo of an An-28’s nose surfaced online, its fuselage marked with some seventy victory tallies – ...
Weapons of Ukraine’s Victory: MICA Air-to-air Missile
Ukrainian Mirage 2000 fighters, unlike the F-16, have revealed far less information about their operational armament. While F-16 “Fighting Falcons”...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 12: Lessons from the Luftwaffe
The highly effective use of German dive bombers during the Polish campaign and the Western Blitzkrieg naturally drew the interest...
Pilatus Turboprop Aircraft: An Overview of PC-9
The PC-7 aircraft, whose long history I discussed recently, proved to be a commercially successful project. However, in 1980 it...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 11: Near-Bomber Designs of the Second World War
Readers may recall that in the tenth article of this series on U.S. attack aircraft of the interwar period, we...
Weapons of Ukraine’s Victory: Paveway IV Guided Bombs
The arsenal of high‑precision air‑to‑surface weapons used by our aviation has been expanded with another Western‑origin system – the Paveway IV guided aerial...
All About Lightweight Patrol and Counter-Drone Aircraft “Draco”: Reincarnation of Iconic “Vilga”
On December 17, 2025, the Warsaw-based company Draco Aircraft presented a concept for a military variant of the Wilga Draco...
Weapons of Ukraine’s Victory: E-300 Enterprise Strike Drone
The Ukrainian E-300 Enterprise strike drone can be characterized as large, relatively slow, and cost-efficient. Despite its utilitarian and unrefined...
‘Tigers’ from Australia: Could the Australia’s fiasco Become an Opportunity for Ukraine
Australian media have reported a potential transfer of Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopters to Ukraine. What kind of aircraft are these,...