$270 Million for Drones That Fly for 75 Hours Straight
Share this story Seventy-five hours. More than three days. That is how long the K1000ULE unmanned aircraft can stay airborne on a single mission — circling, watching, and relaying intelligence without landing. On April 7, 2026, U.S. Air Forces Central Command awarded...
AI Data Centres Are Coming to Alaska Air Force Bases
Share this story The United States Air Force just invited the tech industry to build artificial intelligence data centres on some of the most remote military installations in America. The offer: 4,700 acres of underutilised land across three bases in Alaska. The...
Mach 5 Startup Hermeus Hits $1 Billion Valuation
Share this story A company that did not exist seven years ago just raised $350 million to build unmanned aircraft that fly faster than any operational military jet on Earth. Hermeus, a defence aviation startup founded in 2018, closed its Series C round on April 7,...
F-47: America’s Next Fighter Won’t Arrive Until the Mid-2030s
Share this story The United States Air Force’s next air superiority fighter — the Boeing F-47, the centrepiece of the Next Generation Air Dominance programme — is slipping further behind schedule. Senior lawmakers and defence analysts now project that the...
Gripens Shadow Russian Sub Through Scandinavian Waters
Share this story On April 10, 2026, the Swedish Armed Forces released photographs that tell a story in a single frame: two JAS 39 Gripen fighters flying overwatch above a Russian Kilo-class submarine as it transited the Kattegat — the narrow strait between Sweden and...
Iran Hit America’s Billion-Dollar Eye in the Sky
Share this story On March 3, 2026, an Iranian ballistic missile struck one of the most valuable single pieces of military hardware the United States has ever deployed overseas. The target was not a warship, not an airfield, and not a command centre. It was a radar — a...
Joaquín García Morato: Spain’s Greatest Ace Died Three Days After the War Ended
Quick FactsNationalitySpanish 🇪🇸Aerial Victories40 (highest ace, Spanish Civil War)Aircraft FlownFiat CR.32, Bf 109B/CWarsSpanish Civil War (Nationalist)Born / Died25 Apr 1904 – 4 Apr 1939 (age 34)UnitGrupo 2-G-3 Chirri (2675595340) — via Wikimedia Commons Most of the...
Broken Ribs, a Broomstick, and the Sound Barrier
Share this story Two days before the most important flight in the history of aviation, Captain Chuck Yeager went horseback riding with his wife, Glennis, near their home at Muroc Army Air Field in the California desert. The horse threw him. He hit the ground hard and...
The MiG-21: 10,000 Built, 60 Countries, Still Flying
Share this story No supersonic fighter in history has been built in greater numbers. No jet has served in more air forces, fought in more wars, or lasted longer in frontline service. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 — NATO codename Fishbed — first flew in 1955, entered...
Raptor Pilot Takes Command at the Air Force Academy
Share this story The man who will shape the next generation of Air Force officers has 2,500 flight hours, 300 of them in combat, and has flown two of America’s most formidable fighters: the F-15C Eagle and the F-22 Raptor. Col. Brandon J. Tellez, a 2001 Air Force...
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