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The Marines are in the sixth-generation fighter business. Quietly, without fanfare, the Marine Corps included a post-2041 sixth-generation combat aircraft in its 2026 Aviation Plan — the first time the service has formally acknowledged that it wants a successor to the...
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Northrop Grumman just showed the world what its next fighter jet might look like. On April 20, 2026, the company released a concept video of its F/A-XX proposal — the Navy’s next-generation carrier-based stealth fighter — and the internet immediately noticed...
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The Army’s best missile is going to sea. On April 21, 2026, Lockheed Martin announced a $200 million contract to integrate the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement — the most advanced air defence interceptor in the U.S. arsenal — into the Navy’s Aegis Combat...
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Tianrui Liang had a problem. The 21-year-old aeronautical engineering student from the University of Glasgow had just spent his spring break photographing some of the most sensitive military aircraft in the United States — and now the FBI was waiting for him at JFK....
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On April 19, 2026, the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance put a 5-inch shell through the engine room of an Iranian cargo ship. The vessel — M/V Touska — had been steaming at 17 knots toward Bandar Abbas, ignoring six hours of warnings from the U.S. Navy. When the...
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It took the Navy six days to say it out loud. The MQ-4C Triton that vanished over the Persian Gulf on April 9 is not coming back. The U.S. Navy has officially confirmed the loss of the unmanned surveillance aircraft near the Strait of Hormuz, ending nearly a week of...
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The U.S. Air Force just showed the world something it has guarded for years: the top of the B-21 Raider. On April 14, the Air Force released two photographs of its next-generation stealth bomber conducting aerial refueling tests with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Edwards...
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Follow-up to our April 1 post, “Navy’s $10 Billion Trainer Race Begins.” Two weeks ago, the U.S. Navy’s hunt for a new jet trainer was a rumour with a price tag. This week it is a formal contest. NAVAIR issued the long-awaited Undergraduate Jet...
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The Precision Strike Missile was supposed to be the Army’s long-reach wonder weapon — a 500-kilometre knife that could punch through anything ATACMS couldn’t reach. On April 1, 2023, Lockheed Martin delivered the first production rounds. Three years later,...
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On Friday, April 11, 2026, the FAA and Pentagon quietly shook hands on something unprecedented: a federal framework allowing the U.S. military to operate high-energy laser weapons against drones in civilian airspace without forcing emergency airport closures. It...
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On April 13, 2026, Air National Guard leaders delivered a stark message to Congress: the U.S. Air Force is “the oldest, the smallest, and the least ready in its 78-year history.” To fix that, they say, America needs to buy 100 new fighters per year....
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In late April 2026, the U.S. Navy quietly initiated what may be the most consequential mine-clearing campaign since Operation Desert Storm. After weeks of escalating tensions and failed diplomacy with Iran, two Avenger-class minesweepers—USS Chief (MCM 1) and USS...
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