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For two years, the math of drone warfare has been an embarrassment. A $400 quadcopter floats over the front line; a $4 million interceptor missile streaks up to kill it. Win the engagement, lose the war chest. On 8 June, the U.S. Army handed a New York startup up to...
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The Air Force wants $3.2 billion more than its current budget to fix aircraft that are breaking faster than they can be repaired. Vice Chief Gen. John Lamontagne told lawmakers that the service’s demand for new airplanes is outstripping contractors’...
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Two lieutenant colonels at Joint Base San Antonio just became the most important instructor pilots in the U.S. Air Force. In an announcement on 3 June 2026, Air Education and Training Command said Lt. Col. Michael Trott and Lt. Col. Phillip Bourquin of the 99th Flying...
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The Air Force wanted the A-10 dead by 2026. Congress just told them to keep it alive until at least 2030 — and to maintain the training pipeline, the Weapons School billets, and the testing infrastructure the service had already started dismantling. The Warthog...
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At 9:04 in the morning Eastern time, mission control in Houston sent five people in orbit an instruction no astronaut wants to hear: get into your spacecraft, put on your suits, and be ready to leave. Not for a drill. Because the International Space Station is losing...
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Update, June 5, 2026: Project Fear has released the full video — now embedded below. On the evening of June 2, a YouTube channel best known for sleeping in haunted asylums posted a single thermal-camera frame and lit the aviation internet on fire. The image, captured...
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The U.S. Air Force tanker fleet flew through Iranian missile barrages and one-way drone attacks during Operation Epic Fury — and brought most of its battered KC-135s home. The latest two casualties at RAF Mildenhall, though, never left the ground. They were...
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The Pentagon just paid SpaceX $4.16 billion to start putting the AWACS out of a job. On May 29, the U.S. Space Force handed Elon Musk’s company the first major award under its Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator programme — SB-AMTI — a...
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Ukrainian long-range drones struck St. Petersburg overnight on 3 June, setting an oil terminal ablaze and damaging a guided-missile corvette at Kronstadt naval base — all of it roughly 1,100 kilometres from the nearest Ukrainian-held territory, and hours before...
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Russia fired 729 weapons at Ukraine overnight on 1–2 June in the largest single aerial assault since the full-scale invasion began. 656 drones. 73 missiles. Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia — all hit. At least 22 people are dead, including two children. More than...
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An Iranian drone punched through the roof of Terminal 1 at Kuwait International Airport on Wednesday, killing an Indian national and wounding 63 others in the deadliest attack on a Gulf state since the April ceasefire. Kuwait’s defence ministry said it detected 30...
Military Aviation
The Aegean Sea shimmers turquoise beneath a cloudless Mediterranean sky. A rigid-hulled inflatable boat — loaded with Hellenic Army special operations soldiers — carves a white wake at high speed across open water. Then, from behind, a thundering shadow descends. A...
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