Fifth Ship Disabled: A Hellfire Missile Into the Engine Room
Twenty warnings. More than twenty radio calls, signal flares, and direct hails. The crew of the Gambian-flagged M/V Lian Star ignored every one. On May 29, somewhere in the opal waters of the Gulf of Oman, a U.S. aircraft fired an AGM-114 Hellfire missile into the...
A Chinese Missile Brought Down an American F-15 — and That Changes Everything
On the afternoon of April 3, somewhere over the scrubby hills of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in southwestern Iran, a shoulder-fired missile — roughly seven feet long and weighing about 40 pounds — slammed into an F-15E Strike Eagle from the 494th Fighter...
Air Force One Is Late — Here Is Every Boeing Jet Behind Schedule in 2026
The President of the United States is about to start flying around the world on a Qatari hand-me-down. Trump’s interim Air Force One is a former royal Boeing 747-8 from Doha that the Air Force is repainting red, white and blue because the actual Air Force Ones —...
F-47 NGAD: 185 Jets, Mach 2+, and One Big Problem Nobody Talks About
The F-47 has a $20 billion prime contract, 185-plus jets on order, Mach 2-plus on the spec sheet, up to eight robot wingmen each, and a $300 million per copy sticker that would make a Lamborghini dealer blush. The Air Force is building it in St. Louis. Boeing’s...
The Army Just Strapped a Rocket Launcher to a 150-Pound Cargo Drone
Somewhere at Fort Rucker, Alabama, the US Army took a delivery drone — the kind built to fly a cooler of MREs and ammo to an infantry squad — and bolted a rocket launcher onto it. Then it lit the rockets off. The test on 20 May 2026 paired a Survice Engineering...
China Just Handed Boeing a 200-Jet Lifeline
For nearly a decade Boeing has been doing the corporate equivalent of staring at China through a chain-link fence. Tariffs, the 737 MAX grounding, the trade war, a pandemic, more tariffs — name a thing that could keep a US planemaker out of the world’s biggest...
Hermeus Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 Just Broke the Sound Barrier — On Its Third Flight
A startup with fewer employees than a regional Cracker Barrel just outran every other unmanned jet on the planet. On 26 May 2026, Hermeus’ Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 lit afterburner over New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range, punched through the sound barrier...
Wall Street Just Found Its Favourite Drone Stocks
Wall Street had a quiet revelation this week. On Thursday morning, drone stocks ripped higher across the board after a Wall Street Journal report revealed that the Trump administration is exploring direct equity investments in domestic drone manufacturers. The numbers...
House Panel Votes to Dissolve the SDA and Space RCO
The House Armed Services Committee just dropped a quiet bombshell. The draft fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, released on 26 May, calls for repealing the laws that established two of the Space Force’s most aggressive and successful...
Congress Pushes Back on Air Force Plan to Slash MH-139 Grey Wolf Buy
The Air Force quietly scaled back its planned MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopter buy. Congress is just as quietly pushing back. Lawmakers have written language into the draft fiscal year 2027 defence bill adding four Grey Wolf helicopters on top of the four the Air Force...
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