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AMP-HEL: The Army Laser Burning Cartel Drones for $3 a Shot

AMP-HEL: The Army Laser Burning Cartel Drones for $3 a Shot

Military Aviation, News

Share this story Since 25 August, a US Army laser has been burning cartel drones out of the sky over the Rio Grande Valley. Eleven of them in ten days. Each shot costs about three dollars. Military officials told CBS News that drone traffic in the sector has since...
Egypt Takes Its First Five Boeing CH-47F Chinooks

Egypt Takes Its First Five Boeing CH-47F Chinooks

Military Aviation, News

Share this story Among all the fifth-generation sales theatre at El Alamein this week, the most consequential thing on the ramp is a helicopter that first flew in 1961. Boeing has handed the Egyptian Air Force the first five of twelve CH-47F Chinooks, with the...
Su-35 Collision Over Kursk: One Russian Pilot Killed

Su-35 Collision Over Kursk: One Russian Pilot Killed

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Share this story Two Russian Su-35S fighters collided in the air over Russia’s Kursk region on Sunday. One pilot was killed. The other ejected and was injured. That is the entire confirmed account, and even it is not confirmed in any official sense. The report...
Beijing Announced Pakistan’s New Missile System. Pakistan Didn’t.

Beijing Announced Pakistan’s New Missile System. Pakistan Didn’t.

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Share this story Just after midnight on Pakistan Air Force Day, the PAF posted a patriotic music video called Fizaon K Pasbaan — Guardians of the Skies. Around twenty-eight seconds in, a six-wheeled air-defence vehicle with a large rectangular radar array rolls...
Strait of Hormuz: Iran Claims a US Drone Boat, CENTCOM Says No

Strait of Hormuz: Iran Claims a US Drone Boat, CENTCOM Says No

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Share this story On Sunday morning, Iranian state television announced that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had struck a remotely operated US military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, after it tried to enter what Iran calls a restricted area. By Sunday afternoon,...
Petrel AERO Sky: The Drone Mothership the Rangers Are Testing

Petrel AERO Sky: The Drone Mothership the Rangers Are Testing

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Share this story The caption was eleven words long. “Golden hour. Live fire. Mothership operations with 75th Ranger Regiment, U.S. Army.” That is the entirety of what has been made public about the US Army’s most secretive infantry unit testing a...
Aevum RAVN X: The Cockpitless Jet That Woke Up at Long Beach

Aevum RAVN X: The Cockpitless Jet That Woke Up at Long Beach

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Share this story A plumber driving home past Long Beach Airport on Thursday evening saw light spilling out of a hangar that had been shut for years. He turned around. What he found parked on the ramp was eighty feet of matte black airframe with no cockpit, no canopy,...
Amazon 767 Overruns the Runway at Miami and Catches Fire

Amazon 767 Overruns the Runway at Miami and Catches Fire

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Share this story Developing story. This account is based on the FAA, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Amazon and initial reporting on the afternoon of 6 September 2026. Casualty information has not been confirmed by the authorities and early details in accidents like this...
VMFA-533 Brings F-35Bs to Iwakuni for the First Time

VMFA-533 Brings F-35Bs to Iwakuni for the First Time

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Share this story On Saturday morning a squadron of F-35Bs taxied onto the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, on the Seto Inland Sea, and took over a job the US Marine Corps has been rotating through Japan since 1980. The unit is Marine Fighter Attack...
Boeing Paid Its $3.1 Million Door Plug Fine and Told No One

Boeing Paid Its $3.1 Million Door Plug Fine and Told No One

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Share this story On 5 January 2024 a door plug departed an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX at around 16,000 feet, leaving a hole in the side of a full airliner. Nobody was killed, which was luck rather than design. The Federal Aviation Administration eventually...
CENTCOM Strikes Three Iranian Oil Tankers After Carrier Attack

CENTCOM Strikes Three Iranian Oil Tankers After Carrier Attack

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Share this story Two Iranian ballistic missiles came off the rail on Saturday morning and went for a United States aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer. Both missed. Nobody aboard either ship was hurt. The answer arrived within hours, and it was not aimed...
AEVEX and Divergent Will 3D-Print an Autonomous Aircraft

AEVEX and Divergent Will 3D-Print an Autonomous Aircraft

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Share this story Two Californian companies announced this week that they are going to build an autonomous aircraft together. They did not say what it is, who it is for, what it costs, or when it flies. Ordinarily that would be a press release to ignore. This one is...
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