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The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was supposed to revolutionize commercial aviation. Lighter composites, better fuel economy, higher cabin pressure, bigger windows — it was the future of air travel. Instead, it has become a case study in what happens when manufacturing...
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The U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 Stratotankers — the 60-year-old aerial refueling workhorses that keep American air power flying — are taking hits in the Iran war. Six aircraft have been damaged since the conflict began — a figure that covers aircraft damaged but not...
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When Iranian ballistic missiles slammed into Al Udeid Air Base in the early weeks of the war, they hit the most important building on the base: the Combined Air Operations Center. The CAOC — the nerve center that coordinates every U.S. and coalition aircraft across...
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The Iran war burned through America’s cruise missile stockpile faster than anyone planned. Now the Pentagon is buying 10,000 replacements — and it wants them cheap. On May 13, the Department of Defense awarded framework agreements to four companies for the...
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A swarm of cheap American drones just scored a perfect kill rate against ship targets in the Taiwan Strait. Every single one hit. In early June, Taiwan’s Army conducted the Tianma Exercise — the island’s first-ever live-fire anti-ship drone drill — using...
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The drone everyone wanted to see at ILA Berlin just got dangerous. Boeing unveiled the MQ-28A Ghost Bat Block 3 on June 10 with a feature that changes the game for autonomous air combat: internal weapons bays carrying AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles and GBU-39 Small Diameter...
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The ceasefire was already fraying at the edges. Then, on June 8, an Iranian drone knocked a U.S. Army Apache helicopter out of the sky over the Strait of Hormuz — and four days of escalation rewrote the rules of the conflict. Within 24 hours, 49 Tomahawk cruise...
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Boeing has completed the first phase of flight testing for the KC-46A Pegasus’s redesigned Remote Vision System. The announcement, made on June 3, marks a critical milestone in fixing what has been the tanker’s most notorious deficiency — with...
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The House Armed Services Committee has voted to bar the Air Force from retiring a single E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft through fiscal 2027. The amendment, introduced by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) and approved on June 4, extends a retirement freeze that has been in place...
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Norway’s Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace has locked in a $241 million contract to deliver a second production batch of Joint Strike Missiles to the United States Air Force. The deal, signed in December 2025 and publicly confirmed this month, cements the...
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Hours after American fighter jets cratered Iranian radar installations across the southern coast, Tehran opened three new fronts. Drones hit Bahrain. Drones hit Kuwait. Long-range missiles were fired at an air base in Jordan. The IRGC claims it struck 21 American...
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A Shahed drone slams into an AH-64 Apache over the Strait of Hormuz. Both crew members plunge into the Gulf. Two hours later, a robotic boat drags them from the water — the first-ever unmanned sea rescue of downed aviators. Hours after that, American jets are...
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