Cooling the F-35: Collins’ EPACS Challenges Honeywell
Share this story The most advanced fighter America builds has a decidedly un-glamorous problem: it runs too hot. Every new sensor, jammer and processor bolted into the F-35 Lightning II throws off heat the jet was never designed to shed — and the fix has become...
F-35 Costs Jump $51 Billion: What the New Estimate Actually Says
Share this story The number that follows the F-35 around got bigger again. In a fresh accounting delivered to Congress and confirmed by the programme office, the cost of buying America’s stealth fighter fleet has climbed by roughly $51 billion since late 2023 —...
160th SOAR Black Hawk Down in Colorado, All Four Crew Safe
Share this story An MH-60 Black Hawk belonging to the US Army’s most secretive aviation unit went down in the Colorado foothills on Tuesday. All four crew walked away.The helicopter came down in wooded terrain on the eastern side of Thorodin Mountain, north of...
B-52 Radar Modernization: $766 Million and Still Testing
Share this story The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that Raytheon and Boeing had picked up contracts worth up to a combined $766 million tied to the B-52 Radar Modernization Program.It is a substantial sum for a programme whose central task is replacing one radar with...
Blackbeard on the Super Hornet: Hypersonic Testing Begins
Share this story Somebody at the Tailhook Association convention this past weekend was holding a camera when the U.S. Navy put a particular slide on the screen. On it: a pair of Castelion Blackbeard test articles hanging under the right wing of an F/A-18E/F Super...
The Nimitz Tic Tac: What the Navy Aircrew Actually Reported
Share this story On 14 November 2004, a US Navy F/A-18F on a routine training intercept off southern California was vectored onto something the cruiser USS Princeton had been tracking for days. The squadron commander who flew that intercept has described what he saw...
Cross-Decking F-35Bs: When a British Carrier Armed an American Jet
Share this story Five years ago this month, a US Marine Corps F-35B took off from a British aircraft carrier, landed on an American assault ship, took on fuel and weapons, and flew off again to attack a second set of targets. The Marine Corps called it the first time...
John Ratcliffe in Moscow: Why the CIA Director Flew In on a C-17
Share this story Yesterday we covered the flight itself: an unmarked US Air Force C-17 that appeared over Moscow, sat at Vnukovo for about eight hours, and went home. You can read that here — The Moscow Mystery Jet Carried the CIA Director. The obvious question...
United Is Flying Newark to Ibiza Nonstop
Share this story United spent a fortnight teasing this announcement with a reality-TV-style video full of coded clues, which the internet duly spent a fortnight decoding. On Tuesday morning, in a hangar at Newark, the airline finally said it out loud. Ten new...
The Moscow Mystery Jet Carried the CIA Director
Share this story Updated 25 August 2026The mystery is solved. The aircraft carried CIA Director John Ratcliffe on an unannounced trip to Moscow, according to reporting by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News and Axios, all citing...
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