1,300 F-35s, a Pipeline Built for 800
Share this story The Marine general who runs the F-35 program walked into a Senate hearing this week and said the quiet part out loud: the most expensive weapons program in history has outgrown the system built to keep it flying.It landed weeks after a Government...
America Just Wrote a $35 Billion Missile-Defense Check
Share this story On 24 June 2026, the U.S. government signed one of the largest missile-defense checks in its history and handed it to a single company for a single job: build interceptors, and build them faster than America has ever built them before. The award to...
From a Bar in Russia to the Drone Wars: The L-39 Story — and How It Built MiGFlug
There is no jet trainer on earth with a longer shadow than the Aero L-39 Albatros. More than 3,000 built. Flown by over 30 air forces on five continents. The backbone of Warsaw Pact pilot training for two decades, and still — in 2026 — the aircraft that introduces...
Edwards Resumes Flying After Deadliest B-52 Crash in 44 Years
Share this story Edwards Air Force Base is flying again. The question everyone at the desert test centre is still asking is why it had to stop. On 15 June, B-52H tail number 60-0061 — call sign Torch 11 — crashed moments after takeoff from Edwards, killing all eight...
Iran Strikes Back: IRGC Hits US Bases Across the Gulf
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck American military installations across the Persian Gulf on Sunday, launching ballistic missiles and armed drones at bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in what Tehran called a direct response to US strikes on Iranian targets near...
Russia and China Fly Largest Joint Bomber Patrol Yet
Share this story Fifteen warplanes. Two nuclear powers. One very pointed message. On 27 June, Russia and China flew their largest joint strategic bomber patrol to date — a six-hour formation sweep through the Sea of Japan, East China Sea, and into the western Pacific....
NATO Offers €250K to Kill a Russian Airfield
Share this story NATO just put a bounty on Russian airfields — and the price tag is surprisingly modest. Allied Command Transformation and the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre have launched “Persistent Airfield Denial,” an...
Ghost Bat Goes to War: MQ-28 Debuts at Valiant Shield
Share this story The future of air combat just landed on a tiny Pacific island. Boeing’s MQ-28A Ghost Bat — the autonomous combat drone that could change everything about how wars are fought in the air — touched down at a remote airfield on Rota in the Northern...
Guard Generals to Congress: 100 Fighters a Year
Share this story Two-star generals do not usually gang up on Congress. This spring, twenty-two of them did. In a single letter to the House and Senate appropriators, every adjutant general who commands an Air National Guard fighter unit signed the same blunt verdict:...
Ukraine Loses a MiG-29 in the Dark — Pilot Walks Away
Share this story Somewhere over Poltava Oblast, in the dark hours before dawn on 27 June, a Ukrainian MiG-29 simply went quiet. One moment the fighter was flying a combat mission; the next, contact was gone. The jet did not come home. This is the part of the war that...
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