Aviation World, News
On April 28, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in Alaska Airlines livery will push back from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, point its nose east, and do something the airline has never done in its 94-year history: cross the Atlantic Ocean. The destination is Rome...
Military Aviation, News
The Air Force just doubled down on its most controversial procurement decision — and the reason is written in the wreckage of four F-15Es lost over the Middle East. The planned F-15EX Eagle II fleet will grow from 129 aircraft to 267, a jump so large it represents a...
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On March 3, 2026, a video surfaced showing a drone approaching the port of Fujairah — one of the UAE’s most critical energy hubs — and detonating against infrastructure. The drone appeared intact on approach. There was no visible sign of interception. The...
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A single Ukrainian land robot armed with a machine gun held off a Russian infantry advance for 45 days. It needed a battery recharge every two days and light maintenance. No food. No sleep. No fear. No casualty evacuation when hit by shrapnel. It just kept firing....
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When Iranian ballistic missiles and one-way attack drones slammed into Al Udeid, Al Dhafra, and Ali Al Salem during the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury, the Air Force discovered a truth it had known but never fully addressed: its air bases were largely undefended...
Military Aviation, News
Northrop Grumman has delivered the first production unit of a navigation system designed to solve one of modern air combat’s most dangerous problems: what happens when the enemy jams your GPS. The Embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation System Modernisation, designated...
Military Aviation, News
The Air Force just admitted what critics have been saying for years: the B-21 Raider is not coming fast enough. In its latest budget submission, the service revealed plans to spend nearly $1.7 billion over the next five years modernising the B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit...
Military Aviation, News
On the night of April 25–26, Ukraine’s Security Service launched one of its most coordinated single-night operations of the entire war. SBU Special Operations Centre Alpha sent waves of attack drones against two of Russia’s most critical military...
Military Aviation, News
For the first time in 23 years, three American supercarriers are operating simultaneously in the Middle East. USS Gerald R. Ford holds station in the Red Sea. USS Abraham Lincoln patrols the Arabian Sea. USS George H.W. Bush has joined them in the Gulf region....
History & Legends
In January 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney walked into a press conference and killed the most expensive aircraft programme in US Navy history with a single sentence. The A-12 Avenger II — a carrier-based stealth bomber shaped like a tortilla chip, already $5...
History & Legends
Somewhere in the archives of the National Security Agency, there is a list of names. Airmen who took off from bases in Alaska, Japan, Turkey, and England, flew toward the edges of Soviet airspace in aircraft packed with electronic listening equipment, and never came...
History & Legends
On the morning of February 20, 1959, test pilot Jan “Spud” Potocki climbed out of CF-105 Arrow RL-201 at Avro Canada’s Malton facility near Toronto. He had just pushed the delta-winged interceptor to Mach 1.75 — its final flight. He did not know...
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