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A Vietnamese low-cost carrier just became the most significant international customer for a Chinese-built airliner. Vietjet signed a finance lease for 10 COMAC C909 regional jets on April 16, during a Vietnamese state visit to Beijing — a deal that is as much about...
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The Air Force is bleeding pilots, and two senators think they know how to stop it — with more jets, more money, and a radical idea: let fighter pilots take a year off and come back. Senators Ted Budd (R-NC) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced a bipartisan three-bill...
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Emmanuel Macron arrived in Athens on April 24 with a proposal he clearly thought was elegant: hand over your Mirage 2000 fleet for Ukraine, and France will give you a preferential deal on new Rafales. A swap of old for new, West for East, legacy iron for cutting-edge...
Military Aviation, News
Lockheed Martin just turned in its worst quarterly earnings surprise in years, and the culprits are two of the most iconic names in military aviation. The F-16 Fighting Falcon and the C-130 Hercules — workhorses that have defined American air power for decades —...
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Four J-20 stealth fighters in tight formation, flanking a massive grey transport aircraft over the East China Sea. The image, released by Chinese state media on April 22, was staged for maximum impact — and it worked. China’s Y-20B strategic airlifter, powered...
Military Aviation, News
Am 25. März 2026 rollte bei Korea Aerospace Industries in Sacheon das erste Serienexemplar der KF-21 Boramae aus der Montagehalle. Nicht ein weiterer Prototyp. Nicht eine Vorserienmaschine. Das erste Exemplar einer geplanten Bauserie von 120 Maschinen, bestimmt für...
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Twelve companies. $3.2 billion. Interceptors that kill missiles from orbit. The U.S. Space Force just awarded the first major contracts for Golden Dome’s space-based interceptor layer, and the list of winners reads like a who’s who of Silicon Valley...
Military Aviation, News
No crew quarters. No mess hall. No bridge watch. Just 170 feet of autonomous warship carrying Tomahawk cruise missiles in a hidden deck compartment, capable of crossing an ocean without a single human aboard. Saildrone’s Spectre is the kind of vessel that sounds...
Military Aviation, News
Am 24. April 2026 formalisierten das Department of the Air Force und das niederländische Verteidigungsministerium — but this story belongs in English because its implications are transatlantic. The Netherlands has become the first European nation to join the United...
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If Washington goes dark — nuclear strike, decapitation attack, catastrophic disaster — the first aircraft in the sky won’t be Air Force One. It will be a helicopter lifting VIPs from the Pentagon, the Capitol, and secure locations across the National Capital...
Military Aviation, News
A Soviet-designed passenger turboprop, built to ferry 17 commuters between regional airports, now hunts kamikaze drones at night over Ukraine. The Antonov An-28 — a boxy, twin-engine workhorse that first flew in 1969 — has been converted into an airborne interceptor...
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The order dropped on Truth Social like a depth charge. On April 23, President Trump told the U.S. Navy to “shoot and kill any boat” caught laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz — “no hesitation.” It is the most direct threat of lethal force...
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