Share this story For decades Japan built warships bristling with missile cells and used them only to shoot things down. That just changed. On Jul. 29, 2026, the destroyer JS Chōkai fired a Tomahawk cruise missile into the Pacific — the first time a Japanese...
Share this story The cheapest weapon on a modern battlefield is a drone you can buy online. The U.S. Air Force has just answered it in Europe with one of the most futuristic: a laser. Quietly, and at locations it will not name, U.S. Air Forces in Europe has fielded...
Share this story Black smoke over San Diego is never a good sign. On Friday morning, it meant a stealth fighter was down. A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II crashed in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar shortly before 10 a.m. Pacific time, sending a...
Share this story Doug White was having the worst week of his life. He, his wife Terri and their two daughters were flying home to Louisiana from Florida, where they had just buried his brother. It was Easter Sunday, 2009. White, a 56-year-old private pilot who had...
Comparte esta historia Hace un mes, la Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. autorizó la producción de sus dos primeros "drones de combate". Esta semana, las fábricas comenzaron a construirlos, y a uno de ellos le quitaron una letra de su nombre. El 27 de julio de 2026, el primer Fury fabricado en Ohio...
Comparte esta historia Alrededor de las 2:30 de la tarde del 30 de julio de 2026, los sensores ubicados a lo largo de la frontera de Corea del Sur con el Norte detectaron algo que no pudieron identificar: una aeronave no tripulada, cerca de un puesto de avanzada en la línea del frente, que no emitía ninguna señal amistosa. En el más...
Comparte esta historia El 29 de julio de 2026, en la planta de Korea Aerospace Industries en Sacheon, Corea del Sur logró algo que solo un puñado de naciones ha conseguido: declaró terminado su propio caza supersónico. El KF-21 Boramae —’halcón joven“— es...
Share this story Here is an aviation rarity: an incident where the scary part — a mechanical warning in flight — ended fine, and the embarrassing part happened on the ground, at walking pace.On the evening of 28 July 2026, a Dassault Falcon 50 three-engine...
Share this story On 29 July 2026, Japan launched fighter jets over the East China Sea after picking up a suspected airspace violation. Then the Ministry of Defense did what it usually does with these events: said almost nothing.No aircraft type was named. No...
Share this story They are the smallest and the largest members of the 737 MAX family, and for years they have been the two that would not cross the finish line. On 28 July 2026, Boeing said both the 737-7 (MAX 7) and 737-10 (MAX 10) have finally finished their...
Share this story For sixty years, the sight of a C-2A Greyhound turning onto final told a carrier crew everything they needed to know: the mail was here, the spare part was here, the Sailor going home was here. On 28 July 2026, that homely twin-turboprop made the...
Share this story In 1911, flying across the United States was widely considered impossible. The newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst put money on it anyway, offering $50,000 to the first pilot to cross the country by air in 30 days or less. The men best equipped...
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