How very British. And you know exactly what I mean by that. To officially open Mosquito Month on Hush-Kit, we hand you over ...

Is the Gripen E too good to be true? Hushkit met Richard Smith the Head of Marketing & Sales for the Saab Gripen to find out more. When I interviewed the widely respected aviation journalist Bill ...

Life for British Phantom pilots was seldom boring. Whether it was training for near suicidal night attacks against the Soviet Navy, intercepting ‘Bear’s or performing low-level attacks. During the ...

From the perilous deck of an aircraft carrier, Pierre-Henri ‘Até’ Chuet took the Dassault Rafale M into combat in Iraq. We spoke to him to find out more about the Rafale, a remarkable fighting machine ...

The primary sensor of the modern fighter remains the radar. Up until the 1980s operating a radar effectively required a great degree of skill; today’s digital radars are simple to use, long-ranged and ...

Soviet interceptor pilots faced the daunting task of defending the world’s largest nation against the combined forces of the world’s most technologically advanced nations. The awesome responsibility ...

Few nations have killed as many beautiful aircraft projects as France. Several on this list were felled by the German occupation- some by France’s traditional dislike of heavy fighters- and some were ...

Mullets, stealth and which other Second World War Fighters Achieved This Holy Grail? The P-51 Mustang has been described as the most decisive combat aircraft in history. Its ability to escort bombers ...

This year’s list is out very late, due to a radically changed scene — and some new sources of revealing information. This ranking may be the most controversial but I hope we make our reasoning clear — ...

The ‘AMRAAM Age’ is over, once the weapon that separated the ‘haves’ from the ‘have-nots’, the ‘Slammer’ is now outmatched by a new breed of long range air-to-air missiles. The PL-15 in China and the ...

The Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 is the workhorse of the Royal Air Force’s air combat fleet, excelling in both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. Starting life in 2003 as a dedicated interceptor, the ...

Many fighter pilots and tacticians will say that if you’ve got into within-visual range air combat then something has gone very wrong. Why not zap the enemy at very long range and run away rather than ...