Share this story Last year the Middle East’s airlines made $7.2 billion. This year they are on track to lose $4.3 billion. That is an eleven-and-a-half-billion-dollar swing in twelve months, and it makes the Gulf the only major airline region on earth expected...
Share this story For 55 years, the same stubby twin-engine helicopter has clattered over Washington, ferrying VIPs and standing ready to whisk officials out of the capital in a crisis. The UH-1N Huey’s watch is finally ending. On 12 August 2026, the Air Force...
Share this story A single Eagle rolled out of Boeing’s St. Louis plant this month wearing two small but loaded details: a “ZZ” tail flash and the badge of the 18th Wing. Translation — the first F-15EX Eagle II built for Kadena Air Base has...
Share this story For years the drone story in the Middle East was about what the other side could do — Iranian Shaheds, Houthi one-way attackers, the slow bleed of American surveillance drones falling from the sky. This week, U.S. Central Command answered with a...
Share this story The first warning should have been enough. On 2 December 2025, security forces found a minivan with Massachusetts plates loitering near the perimeter of Whiteman Air Force Base, home of America’s stealth bombers. The driver said he had simply...
Share this story Hours before American and South Korean troops were due to kick off one of the year’s biggest military exercises, President Donald Trump told the Pentagon to shrink it — and named two reasons that had nothing to do with the Korean...
Share this story Last week we told you that America had lost roughly a quarter of its MQ-9 Reaper fleet in the war with Iran. That eye-watering number — around 45 drones, more than $1.3 billion — turned out to be a single line in a much longer invoice....
Share this story A bystander in Wichita, Kansas points a phone at the sky. A large, grey, tailless shape slides overhead near McConnell Air Force Base. The footage is shaky, the shape is unmistakable-but-not-quite — and within hours the internet has decided it...
Share this story Aircraft carriers are the ultimate way for a navy to say “we are here.” So when two of them quietly swap ends of the same sea in the same week, it is worth paying attention. That is what happened in mid-August. As the American carrier USS...
Share this story The world’s most powerful army just decided its next combat pilots will learn to fly on a helicopter you could, in principle, buy off a dealer’s lot. On August 13, the U.S. Army picked M1 Support Services and its partner Robinson...
Share this story For three days in July, something kept flying over the most sensitive fighter base in Australia, and nobody could say what, or whose. Between July 11 and 13, multiple unidentified drones slipped into restricted airspace above RAAF Base Williamtown in...
Share this story The number landed like a dropped bomb: roughly 45 MQ-9 Reapers gone, about a quarter of the entire fleet, at a cost the Pentagon puts north of $1.3 billion for that one weapon system alone. That is the tally the Washington Post reported on August 13,...
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