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Twelve companies. $3.2 billion. Interceptors that kill missiles from orbit. The U.S. Space Force just awarded the first major contracts for Golden Dome’s space-based interceptor layer, and the list of winners reads like a who’s who of Silicon Valley...
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If Washington goes dark — nuclear strike, decapitation attack, catastrophic disaster — the first aircraft in the sky won’t be Air Force One. It will be a helicopter lifting VIPs from the Pentagon, the Capitol, and secure locations across the National Capital...
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The order dropped on Truth Social like a depth charge. On April 23, President Trump told the U.S. Navy to “shoot and kill any boat” caught laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz — “no hesitation.” It is the most direct threat of lethal force...
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The Pentagon wants $75 billion for drones. Not over a decade. Not as a theoretical line item. Seventy-five billion dollars in a single budget year — the largest investment in autonomous systems any military has ever proposed. The fiscal year 2027 budget request,...
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Boeing’s MQ-25 Stingray — the U.S. Navy’s first carrier-based unmanned tanker — has completed high-speed taxi tests and is days from its maiden flight. After years of delays, budget overruns, and engineering challenges, the aircraft that will fundamentally...
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In 40 days of sustained air strikes against Iran, the Israeli Air Force dropped approximately 19,000 munitions. Now the bill has arrived — and Israel is restocking at speed. On April 22, the Israeli Defense Ministry awarded Elbit Systems contracts worth approximately...
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Two cabinet ministers are out. A president is backpedalling. And at the centre of it all sits a $3.5 billion order for 24 fighter jets that Peru’s military desperately wants — and Peru’s politicians can’t agree on. On April 22, Peru’s Defence...
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The Pentagon just killed a $6 billion programme that was supposed to modernise the ground infrastructure controlling every GPS satellite in orbit. The Next Generation Operational Control System — OCX — has been cancelled after years of cost overruns, schedule slips,...
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The most expensive warship ever built might not get any siblings. Navy Secretary John Phelan announced on April 21 that the service is conducting a comprehensive review of the Ford-class aircraft carrier design — and he pointedly refused to rule out canceling future...
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The ceasefire was barely twelve hours old when Tehran made its answer clear. On April 22, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats seized two commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz and opened fire on a third — all within hours of President Trump...
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The Air Force just placed the biggest bet on a fourth-generation fighter in decades. In its fiscal 2027 budget request, the service revealed plans to buy a total of 267 F-15EX Eagle IIs — more than doubling the previous target of 129 jets and signaling that the...
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For more than a decade, the Air Force tried to kill the Warthog. Every budget cycle, every force structure review, every strategic pivot toward great-power competition included the same recommendation: retire the A-10 Thunderbolt II. Congress said no. The Warthog flew...
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