Southwest Posts Profit While Europe’s Airlines Bleed
Southwest Airlines just posted a $227 million net profit for the first quarter of 2026. Across the Atlantic, Lufthansa is slashing 20,000 flights. Air Transat, WestJet, and Air Canada are cutting capacity. The European Commission is scrambling to guarantee jet fuel...
Finland Opens Door to Nuclear Weapons Storage
Finland wants the legal authority to host nuclear weapons on its soil. Three years after joining NATO, Helsinki has submitted a proposal that would allow the import and storage of nuclear warheads — a radical departure for a country that spent seven decades as a...
$75 Billion for Drones: Pentagon’s Autonomous Surge
The Pentagon wants $75 billion for drones. Not over a decade. Not as a theoretical line item. Seventy-five billion dollars in a single budget year — the largest investment in autonomous systems any military has ever proposed. The fiscal year 2027 budget request,...
Iran Showed F-15 Wreckage, Called It an F-35
Iran claimed it shot down an American F-35 stealth fighter. Then it displayed the wreckage for the cameras. There was just one problem: the debris clearly belonged to an F-15E Strike Eagle — a completely different aircraft that is not stealth, not single-engine, and...
MQ-25 Stingray: First Flight Days Away
Boeing’s MQ-25 Stingray — the U.S. Navy’s first carrier-based unmanned tanker — has completed high-speed taxi tests and is days from its maiden flight. After years of delays, budget overruns, and engineering challenges, the aircraft that will fundamentally...
Saab Targets 36 Gripens a Year as Orders Surge
Saab is building Gripens faster than at any point in the fighter’s three-decade history — and it is not fast enough. On April 23, CEO Micael Johansson told investors that production is heading toward 20 to 30 aircraft per year, up from roughly 15 today, with a...
MBDA Doubles Aster Missile Output as Europe Rearms
Europe’s largest missile manufacturer is doubling its output of Aster air defence interceptors and lifting overall production by 40 percent this year. MBDA is also committing €5 billion in new investment and hiring 2,800 people. The continent is rearming — and...
Israel Orders $200M in Smart Bombs After Iran Air Campaign
In 40 days of sustained air strikes against Iran, the Israeli Air Force dropped approximately 19,000 munitions. Now the bill has arrived — and Israel is restocking at speed. On April 22, the Israeli Defense Ministry awarded Elbit Systems contracts worth approximately...
Around the World on Nothing But Sunlight: The Solar Impulse Story
On July 26, 2016, a strange, slow, silent aircraft landed at Abu Dhabi International Airport, completing a journey that had begun 16 months earlier at the same airfield. Solar Impulse 2 had just circumnavigated the Earth — crossing Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North...
NATO Scrambles Six Nations Against Russian Bombers Over Baltic
Two Russian supersonic bombers, ten escort fighters, and the combined air forces of six NATO nations. For four hours over the Baltic Sea on April 20, one of the largest airspace confrontations since the Cold War played out in real time. NATO tracked two Tupolev...
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