Share this story America already has hypersonic missiles on the way. DARPA has just told industry that “on the way” is not good enough. On 7 August 2026, the Pentagon’s far-out research agency released a notice for a possible new program — the...
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 In the California desert this month, U.S. Marines rehearsed an attack under fire from an unlikely enemy: a Soviet gunship built to kill NATO troops. The Mi-24 Hind was not captured, and it was not a mock-up. It was the real thing, flying for the other...
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 There is a patch of sky over interior Alaska so large it could swallow a small country. This month, American and Australian fighter crews are fighting a war inside it. Red Flag-Alaska 26-3 began on 13 August and runs through 28 August 2026, a Pacific...
Share this story A launch rail is a humble thing: a length of metal angled at the sky. Build fifty-nine of them along your western frontier, and you have something else entirely — a machine for reaching deep into a nervous continent. That is the picture drawn by...
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 Russian state television has aired footage of a new strike drone called the BM-35, and the numbers attached to it are eye-catching: a jet engine, a top speed of more than 350 km/h, and a claim that Ukrainian interceptors simply cannot catch it. As...
Share this story Overnight into 16 August, a large wave of Ukrainian drones flew toward the Moscow and Rostov regions, setting warehouses alight and, according to Russian officials, causing several casualties. It was, by the account of the Moscow regional governor,...
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