China’s Tailless Fighter Just Showed It Can Turn
One question has shadowed China’s J-36 since it first flew: a tailless aircraft can be stealthy and stable, but can it actually manoeuvre? New footage circulating online appears to answer it. The big, three-engined sixth-generation prototype is seen pulling a...
A Chinese Missile May Have Downed a US Jet
When an American F-15E Strike Eagle went down over Iran this spring, the obvious question was what shot it. A new answer is now circulating in Washington — and it points east, to China. According to NBC News, citing sources familiar with the investigation, U.S....
1,300 F-35s, a Pipeline Built for 800
The Marine general who runs the F-35 program walked into a Senate hearing this week and said the quiet part out loud: the most expensive weapons program in history has outgrown the system built to keep it flying.It landed weeks after a Government Accountability Office...
Two Drones, Two New York Airports, One Week
United Flight 1513, a Boeing 737-700 inbound from Key West with 106 people on board, is on final approach to Newark Liberty on a Friday afternoon when the crew sees a small circular object — perhaps three feet across — flash past about a hundred feet...
The Call-Sign Mix-Up That Stopped Flight 308
It is just after six o’clock on a Saturday evening at Miami International Airport. American Airlines Flight 308, an Airbus A319 loaded with passengers bound for Bermuda, has been cleared onto Runway 8 and is beginning to roll. Then the crew sees something that...
America Just Wrote a $35 Billion Missile-Defense Check
On 24 June 2026, the U.S. government signed one of the largest missile-defense checks in its history and handed it to a single company for a single job: build interceptors, and build them faster than America has ever built them before. The award to Lockheed Martin is...
The WW2 Lesson Russia Is About to Learn: When the Fuel Runs Out, the War Stops
RAND analysis argues that oil shortages alone can grind Russia’s war machine to a halt — just as strikes on fuel infrastructure crippled Nazi Germany in the Second World War. An army that runs out of fuel cannot keep fighting.Michael Bohnert — Analyst, RAND...
500 Drones in a Shipping Container: The Pentagon’s Race to Master Swarm Warfare
The Pentagon wants 500 drones in a single swarm. Not someday. Not in theory. Right now, DARPA is soliciting proposals for containerised autonomous drone systems capable of launching, recovering, and coordinating constellations of up to 500 unmanned aircraft from...
The Platypus Is Bleeding Out: Russia’s Su-34 Fullback Losses Are Outpacing Production
On 27 June 2025, Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck Marinovka airbase in Russia’s Volgograd region. When the smoke cleared, four Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers were destroyed on the ground. Four aircraft, gone in a single strike — each one worth...
America’s Fighter Factory Problem: Why the World’s Largest Air Force Can’t Build Jets Fast Enough
Yesterday, we reported on a remarkable letter from the nation’s Adjutants General to Congress, demanding the Air Force buy at least 72 — and ideally 100 — new fighters per year to prevent the force from shrinking below the threshold needed to fight a major war....
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