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 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 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...
Share this story Eight years ago almost to the day, a Category 5 hurricane walked across Tyndall Air Force Base and tore the roofs off hangars with F-22 Raptors still inside. This week the Air Force is not waiting to find out whether history repeats. Since Thursday, 8...
Share this story Every fighter engine that comes out of the repair shop has to prove itself before it goes back into a jet. That means running it at full power, afterburner included, for as long as the technicians need to check it. Do that in the open, next to a base...
Share this story The part cost about 1.2 million won to make, roughly 900 US dollars. By the time it reached a South Korean KF-16, it was being billed as a genuine American component at around 100 million won. According to South Korean prosecutors, that markup ran for...
Share this story Somewhere in a freight system, an email arrived that said, in effect: do not send this box through Hong Kong. Nobody at the other end read it. The box contained a cockpit canopy and a weapons-bay door from an F-35 Lightning II, and it went through...
Share this story Walk up the stairs to an American Airlines 747 in the 1970s and you could see your reflection in the fuselage. The airline did not paint its jets. It polished them, and the silver airliner with the red, white and blue stripe became one of the most...
Share this story After a year of delays, America’s first scramjet-powered strike weapon has finally left an aircraft. The US Air Force confirmed on 5 October 2026 that the Royal Australian Air Force has released a Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile, or HACM,...
Share this story Eighty-one. That is how many American aircraft have now been destroyed, lost or damaged in the war with Iran, according to an updated tally from the Congressional Research Service, Congress’s in-house think tank. The report was revised on 5...
Share this story Watch fighters take off from almost any air base in the world and you will notice something: they rarely go alone. They roll down the runway in pairs, climb out together and fly the whole mission as a team of two. In fighter slang, that pair is a...
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