Riyadh Air Will Fly Its First Passenger on 1 July — Saudi Arabia’s Boldest Bet
For three years, the world’s aviation press has watched Riyadh Air with the kind of attention usually reserved for a celebrity divorce. The airline that doesn’t exist yet has spent more on launch advertising than most mid-size carriers spend on a fleet. It has cut...
The Busiest Airport on Earth Wants to Fire the TSA
For decades, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International has been the busiest airport in the world. Over 100 million passengers a year. The single most important screening checkpoint in the United States. And throughout the recent government shutdown, more than a third...
30 Boeing 777-9s Are Rotting in Storage — and Airlines Are Refusing Them
The Boeing 777-9 was supposed to be the airliner that finally cemented Boeing’s widebody recovery after the 787 debacle and the 737 MAX disaster. It was going to be the world’s largest twin-engined jet, the most efficient on a per-seat basis, the only credible direct...
Russia Launched a Surprise Nuclear Drill This Week — Belarus Joined In
Russia held a nuclear weapons exercise this week. The Pentagon did not see it coming. The British Ministry of Defence did not see it coming. NATO indications and warning channels picked up activity at Russian strategic launch sites with only a few hours of advance...
Germany Just Unveiled the Most Capable Eurofighter Ever Built
The Eurofighter Typhoon is old enough to vote in most European elections. Conceived in 1983, first flown in 1994, in service since 2003 — by every conventional metric it is a fourth-generation aircraft that should already be giving way to fifth. Instead, on 20 May...
The $4 Million Problem: Army Wants a Patriot Interceptor Under $1 Million
Every Patriot launch costs the U.S. Army about $4 million. Every Iranian Shahed drone costs about $20,000 to build and a few thousand more to ship. The math has been broken for years. The Iranian and Houthi campaigns of 2024-2026 broke it in public, on television,...
Nine US Destroyers Are Already Carrying Lasers — Here They Are
The U.S. Navy has been talking about putting lasers on warships since the Reagan administration. For most of those forty years it was vapourware — promising prototypes, expensive demonstrators, headlines that never quite turned into deployed systems. That changed...
Sweden Just Bought French Frigates — Naval Group Stuns the Nordic Market
Nobody saw it coming. The Royal Swedish Navy has spent forty years building its surface fleet around shallow-draft, locally-built corvettes optimised for Baltic archipelago warfare — the legendary Visby class, the new Lulea concept, decades of indigenous Saab-Kockums...
Navy SEALs in Mini-Subs Will Now Hunt With Robot Drones Underwater
The Navy SEAL underwater raid has not fundamentally changed in fifty years. Eight operators in a six-metre swimmer delivery vehicle, breathing through rebreathers, no propeller noise above the threshold, no radio emissions, no daylight. They infiltrate, do the job,...
Special Ops Wants a New Wolfhound: Why the C-146 Is Falling Apart
Most Americans have never heard of it. That is the point. The C-146A Wolfhound — a militarised Dornier 328 in unmarked colour schemes — is the quietest workhorse in the entire U.S. military aviation inventory. On any given day, a handful of Wolfhounds are dropping...
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