F-47 Gets $5 Billion as Sixth-Gen Fighter Race Heats Up
Share this story The sixth-generation fighter race is no longer theoretical. It’s real, it’s global, and three competing visions are crystallizing as the world’s major defense industries commit extraordinary sums to aircraft that may not fly for...
F-16s Scramble from Frozen Alaska After Russian Probes
Share this story In the harsh Arctic dawn, two F-16 Fighting Falcons screamed down the runway at King Salmon Airport, a windswept strip on Alaska’s southwestern coast overlooking the Bering Sea, 750 kilometers from their home base at Eielson. This wasn’t a...
Typhoon Fires Drone-Killing Rockets in UK First
Share this story The Eurofighter Typhoon just proved what air forces have suspected all year: you don’t need a $1 million missile to swat a $30,000 drone out of the sky. Last month, a RAF Typhoon test aircraft streaked across the range at Warton, Lancashire, and...
Billy Bishop: Canada’s Greatest Ace and the Dawn Raid Nobody Can Prove
Quick FactsNationalityCanadian 🇨🇦Aerial Victories72Aircraft FlownNieuport 17/23, SE.5aWarsWorld War IBorn / Died8 Feb 1894 – 11 Sep 1956 (age 62)UnitNo. 60 Sqn RFC, No. 85 Sqn RFC Billy bishop — via Wikimedia Commons He was brash, self-promoting, possibly embellished...
Total Victory? Trump’s Iran Scorecard Tells a Different Story
Share this story Both sides are claiming victory. Neither side got what it wanted. That is the diplomatic reality of the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, announced April 7, 2026, after 38 days of the most intense American air campaign since the...
Why Fighter Jets Dump Fuel Before Landing
Share this story You have seen the photographs: a fighter jet trailing twin streams of white mist from its wingtips, the spray catching sunlight like a veil behind the aircraft. It looks dramatic, wasteful, and slightly insane. Why would anyone dump thousands of...
Spitfire Turns 90: Rarest Variant Flies at Wanaka
Share this story On the afternoon of March 5, 1936, Captain Joseph “Mutt” Summers climbed into the cockpit of a prototype designated K5054 at Eastleigh Aerodrome near Southampton. Eight minutes later, he landed, climbed out, and reportedly said:...
Space Force Budget Doubles to $71 Billion
Share this story The United States Space Force is six years old, has fewer personnel than the New York City Police Department, and just asked Congress for $71 billion. If approved, the 2027 budget request would nearly double the service’s funding in a single...
Anduril Secretly Building Hypersonic Missiles and Drones
Share this story Palmer Luckey sold virtual reality headsets to Facebook for two billion dollars, then used the proceeds to build a defence company that makes autonomous weapons. Now that company — Anduril Industries — is quietly hiring engineers to design missiles...
Jolly Green Gets Missile Shield After Iran Rescue
Share this story The HH-60W Jolly Green II flew into Iran on April 2 to rescue the crew of a downed F-15E Strike Eagle. It found the pilot, pulled him aboard, and took hits from small arms fire on the way out — wounding crew members but staying airborne. The...
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