The First Star Trek ‘Enterprise’ Model Is Finally Authenticated
For nearly fifty years it sat in someone’s storage closet — a small, wooden, surprisingly fragile model of an interstellar starship. This week, the Roddenberry Archive gave the public its first detailed look at the original 33-inch prototype of the USS...
Airbus Quietly Courts Saab as Europe’s 6th-Gen Fighter Breaks Apart
Europe’s flagship sixth-generation fighter project is falling apart in slow motion — and now Airbus is quietly reaching out to Sweden’s Saab. The conversations, first reported this week, would have been unthinkable five years ago. They are not unthinkable...
South Korea Confirms It Will Build Nuclear Submarines
South Korea has just announced one of the most consequential naval decisions of the decade. Seoul will build its own nuclear-powered submarines. The programme, codenamed Jang Bogo N, joins South Korea to a club of just seven nuclear-sub nations — China, France, India,...
Navy Eyes Super Hornets to Replace the Last F-5 Aggressors
For decades, the small, sharp F-5N Tiger II has played the bad guy at the US Navy’s adversary squadrons. Painted in Russian and Chinese splinter schemes, the little 1960s-vintage fighter has been the loyal MiG stand-in for thousands of Topgun students. That era...
The FAA Made a Public Tracker for Its $12.5 Billion ATC Overhaul
For the first time in its history, the Federal Aviation Administration is letting US taxpayers watch one of its biggest projects unfold in real time. The agency just launched a public dashboard tracking the $12.5 billion Modern Skies air-traffic-control modernisation...
Israel’s First KC-46A ‘Gideon’ Tanker Lands at Nevatim
The Israeli Air Force has a new tanker — and a new name on its tail. The first KC-46A “Gideon” arrived at Nevatim Air Base on 27 May, the first of six Boeing tankers Israel has ordered at the height of the F-35I fleet expansion. After years of patching...
Iran Sets Up an Agency to Tax Every Ship Crossing Hormuz
Iran has quietly created a new government agency for one purpose: to tax every ship that crosses the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran calls them “navigational service fees.” Five Gulf states call them illegal tolls. Either way, the world’s most important...
MQ-28 Ghost Bat Lands in California for Its First US Flights
The MQ-28 Ghost Bat just made its US debut — not in a hangar, not at an airshow, but in the air. Boeing confirmed on 27 May 2026 that its Australian-built autonomous combat drone has completed three operational flights over the Point Mugu Sea Range at US Naval Base...
Ukraine Inks €2.5 Billion Gripen E Deal With Sweden
Uppsala, 28 May 2026. Volodymyr Zelensky walked onto the apron at Uppsala air base under a grey Swedish sky, shook hands with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, and announced what is — by any measure — the largest Western fighter package Ukraine has ever secured. The...
VietJet Will Fly Hanoi to Prague — With a Kazakh Pit Stop
VietJet Air just dropped a new line on the world’s long-haul map — and it runs straight from Hanoi to Prague. Starting 10 October 2026, the Vietnamese low-cost carrier will fly an Airbus A330 twice a week between Vietnam’s capital and the Czech Republic,...
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