How Anduril Built a Drone Factory in a Cornfield
Twenty miles south of Columbus, Ohio, between cornfields and horse farms, Anduril Industries is building combat drones. The company’s $1 billion Arsenal-1 factory began production of its Fury autonomous combat aircraft in March 2026 — four months ahead of...
Bird of Prey: Boeing’s Star Trek Stealth Jet That Vanished
In 1996, a jet shaped like a Klingon warship took off from the most secret runway in America. It flew 38 times. It cost $67 million — pocket change for a stealth programme. Then it disappeared into classification for six years before Boeing casually unveiled it to a...
Painted and Ready: America’s New Air Force One Arrives This Summer
The U.S. Air Force announced on 1 May that the VC-25B “Bridge” aircraft has completed all modifications and flight testing. It’s now being painted in its new red, white, gold, and blue presidential livery — and delivery to the Presidential Airlift...
America Creates Its First Autonomous Warfare Command
The United States military has created something that didn’t exist before: a dedicated command whose entire purpose is deploying autonomous systems in combat. On 21 April 2026, U.S. Southern Command announced the establishment of its Autonomous Warfare Command...
1,700 km Deep: Ukraine Hits Su-57s at Shagol
On April 25, Ukrainian drones reached Shagol airfield in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region — 1,700 kilometres from the nearest Ukrainian-controlled territory — and damaged at least two Su-57 fifth-generation stealth fighters, one Su-34 strike aircraft, and a fourth...
Talon Blue: Northrop’s Stealth Drone Wingman Fires Up
Northrop Grumman fired up the engine on its YFQ-48A Talon Blue for the first time on April 17 — and the sound that echoed across the test facility was unmistakably that of a business jet. Because that’s exactly what powers America’s newest stealth combat...
Red Stars Over Nevada: Inside the USAF’s Aggressor Squadrons
The pilots wear Russian-style flight patches. Their jets carry paint schemes ripped from Chinese and Russian air forces — digital splinter camouflage, red stars, Flanker-grey colour schemes that would make a Cold War spy blink. When they brief a mission, they think...
Freedom 7 at 65: Fifteen Minutes That Launched the Moon Race
The man strapped into the tiny capsule atop the Redstone rocket had been lying on his back for over four hours. He had been awake since one in the morning. He needed to pee — badly — and Mission Control had no plan for that. So Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., naval...
Hegseth: US Needs “a Lot More” Than 100 B-21 Bombers
One hundred stealth bombers. That has been the number since the B-21 Raider programme was announced — the minimum buy the Air Force said it needed to replace the aging B-2 Spirit and B-1B Lancer fleets. One hundred was already ambitious. Now the man who controls the...
Area 51’s Last Public Viewpoint: Sealed Shut
For three decades, it was the worst-kept secret in American aviation. A gruelling desert hike, a scramble up a 7,915-foot peak, a pair of good binoculars, and you could see it: the runways, the hangars, the taxiways of the most classified airfield on Earth. Now the...
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