The story of Indian fighter jets is really the story of a nation trying to balance urgency with self-reliance. For decades, the Indian Air Force has operated a mixed fleet drawn from Russian, French, and domestic sources, and that pattern continues today. The Su-30MKI still forms the numerical core of the fleet, with roughly 260…
For more than five decades, flying faster than the speed of sound over American soil has been flatly illegal, regardless of how the noise actually reached the ground. That’s now changing. On June 30, 2026, the FAA proposed a new rule that would replace the blanket ban with a noise-based standard — a shift that could…