Share this story The Navy has looked at a fighter-sized drone that takes off standing on its tail, and decided to put more money on the table. On 8 October 2026, Shield AI announced that the U.S. Navy had executed a $150 million modification to its agreement for...
Share this story Most warships come home with a fresh coat of paint. USS Abraham Lincoln came home with a scoreboard. When the Nimitz-class carrier eased into Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego on Thursday, 8 October 2026, its island was plastered with rows...
Share this story Somewhere in Dublin, a company that does not fly a single passenger has just bought 250 jetliners. On Friday, 9 October 2026, aircraft lessor Avolon announced firm orders for 140 Boeing 737 MAX and 110 Airbus aircraft, plus options on 100 more. If the...
Share this story At 12:56 on Friday afternoon, the ground under southern Panama lurched hard enough to empty one of Latin America’s biggest connecting hubs. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake, centred on the Azuero Peninsula, shook Panama City about 200 kilometres away,...
Share this story Italy’s share of the next-generation fighter now has an address. On Friday, 9 October 2026, Edgewing, the joint company designing the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) fighter for Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, cut the ribbon on Edgewing...
Share this story Every F-35 carries a small, fast-spinning turbomachine that most people never hear about. It starts the engine, cools the radar, pressurises the cockpit and, if the main generators fail, keeps the flight controls alive. When one of those machines...
Share this story “¡Drones Reaper: los nuevos cazadores del narcotráfico!” The post from Ecuador’s Ministry of Defence this week did not bother with subtlety. Reaper drones, it announced, are the new hunters of drug trafficking. Defence Minister Gian Carlo Loffredo...
Share this story Somewhere in a Sikorsky hangar in Connecticut sits a Black Hawk with no cockpit. Where the pilots used to sit there are two clamshell doors and a loading ramp. Before the end of 2026, if Sikorsky keeps its word, it will lift off with nobody on board...
Share this story Seven months ago a counter-drone laser fired near Fort Bliss and the Federal Aviation Administration shut the sky over El Paso. On Monday 5 October the Pentagon answered that embarrassment with a shopping list: three high-energy lasers and one...
Share this story The document is three paragraphs long, posted to a federal contracting website at 12:50 UTC on Tuesday 7 October. It names no price and no delivery date. What it does name is a bomber that first flew in 1952 and a missile built to find a warship on...
Share this story Diplomats usually leave the sales talk to the manufacturers. Not this time. At a joint press conference in the Palácio das Necessidades in Lisbon on 8 October, a reporter asked US Secretary of State Marco Rubio which jet Portugal should buy to replace...
Share this story Two years ago the last of them flew into the Arizona desert. Crews delivering the jets to the boneyard signed their names on the nose-gear doors and walked away. Now the US Air Force is asking who could make some of them fly again. On 7 October 2026 a...
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