L3Harris Wins $876 Million More for the Growler’s Low-Band Jammer
Share this story The US Navy has added $876.4 million to L3Harris’s contract for the Next Generation Jammer Low Band, roughly tripling the size of an award that started at $587.4 million in 2024. The combined value is now about $1.463 billion, and the work runs...
Yanbu: France Sends Soldiers, Radars and Air Defences
Share this story On Thursday evening, in a television interview, the president of France committed his armed forces to defending a Saudi oil terminal. He did not say how many people, which systems, or when they arrive. What Emmanuel Macron did say was specific about...
Dispersed Operations: Four Eurofighters Move Into Nuremberg Airport
Share this story From 5 to 9 October, passengers waiting for a holiday flight at Nuremberg will share the apron with four Eurofighter Typhoons. The airport is not being closed. The fighters are not visiting for an air display. They are there because the German air...
Eurofighter for Portugal: Airbus Bids Before the Tender Exists
Share this story There is no competition. Portugal has not launched a tender, has not published a requirement and has not said when it intends to. Airbus is bidding anyway. In Lisbon on Thursday, Ivan Gonzalez Exposito, the Eurofighter campaign manager for Portugal,...
F-35 Canopy and Weapons Bay Door: What China Actually Has
Share this story When Australia confirmed on 22 September that a crate of F-35 parts had ended up in Hong Kong instead of the United States, the official line was that nobody should be especially worried. Two days later, the worry acquired a shape. The consignment...
NASA 844: The Last SR-71A Has Vanished From Edwards
Share this story On a grey Sunday morning in January, the administrator of NASA stood on a patch of asphalt at Edwards Air Force Base and looked up at a black aeroplane. The fin above him carried two words and three digits: NASA, and 844. It was the ninth stop on...
Xi Jinping Flyovers: A B-1 at Andrews, a B-2 at the White House
Share this story The clip everyone shared shows Donald Trump flinching. Two B-1B Lancers came over Joint Base Andrews near the end of the American national anthem, the President ducked, gritted his teeth and lowered his salute to look up, and Xi Jinping, standing next...
Steven Bennett: The OV-10 Pilot Who Ditched to Save His Observer
Share this story Steven Bennett had a working parachute. The man sitting behind him did not. That is the whole story, really, and everything else is the detail of how a twenty-six-year-old Air Force captain came to be flying a burning OV-10 Bronco towards the Gulf of...
Space Weapons in Orbit: ETH Warning and Switzerland’s Role
Share this story Ten days ago the Secretary of the Air Force, Troy Meink, told a conference hall at National Harbor that the Space Force has on-orbit space control weapons. It was the first time a Pentagon official had said it plainly, and he confirmed afterwards that...
Why Carrier Jets Fold Their Wings, and What It Costs Them
Share this story A US Navy photograph from 1942 shows seven F4F Wildcats parked on grass. Two have their wings spread. Five have them folded back along the fuselage, and those five occupy roughly the same frontage as the two. That photograph is the entire argument for...
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