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For decades, the small, sharp F-5N Tiger II has played the bad guy at the US Navy’s adversary squadrons. Painted in Russian and Chinese splinter schemes, the little 1960s-vintage fighter has been the loyal MiG stand-in for thousands of Topgun students. That era...
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For the first time in its history, the Federal Aviation Administration is letting US taxpayers watch one of its biggest projects unfold in real time. The agency just launched a public dashboard tracking the $12.5 billion Modern Skies air-traffic-control modernisation...
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The MQ-28 Ghost Bat just made its US debut — not in a hangar, not at an airshow, but in the air. Boeing confirmed on 27 May 2026 that its Australian-built autonomous combat drone has completed three operational flights over the Point Mugu Sea Range at US Naval Base...
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The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is not the aircraft you would design for the North Atlantic. It is single-aisle, range-limited, and built around a route map that runs Seattle, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix. On 28 May 2026, Alaska Airlines is flying one to Reykjavik anyway —...
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The number is 47. That is how many 737 MAX airliners Boeing’s Renton, Washington factory is now permitted to roll off its assembly lines each month — a production rate the company has not been allowed to touch since the door plug blew out of Alaska Airlines...
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USS Gerald R. Ford carries two A1B nuclear reactors, generates an estimated 1,400 megawatts of thermal power, and routinely supplies more electricity than its own ship can spend. This summer the US Navy is going to plug that excess into the grid of an American shore...
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Fishing nets have been a feature of the Sea of Galilee since the time of the apostles. Now they are draped over Israeli Merkava tanks, Humvees and forward observation posts in southern Lebanon — and they are stopping Hezbollah FPV drones from finding the kill spot on...
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Two EA-18G Growlers collided mid-air over the Mountain Home airshow in May. A T-45 Goshawk went down in Mississippi last week. Two more Growlers had a near-miss the same weekend over the Pacific Northwest. An A-10 lost a wing strake. A KC-46 reported a critical...
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It looks like a motor glider. It practically is a motor glider. The DZYNE Technologies ULTRA — the Unmanned Long-endurance Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft — has long sailplane wings, a single turbocharged piston engine, no pilot, and the kind of slender white...
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Plane spotters at RAF Mildenhall pulled out their long lenses last week and got a picture nobody at Air Mobility Command was hoping to see twice. A US Air Force KC-135R Stratotanker, peppered with what aviation analysts identified as shrapnel impacts down the fuselage...
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Two Martin-Baker ejection seats fired into a Mississippi sky on the afternoon of 26 May 2026. The T-45C Goshawk they had just left came down on private farmland in Noxubee County, Mississippi, near Naval Air Station Meridian. Both crew members ejected safely and were...
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The phrase the Air Force uses is “speedline.” It is the polite way to say: this is taking too long, we are going to do it differently, in one building, faster than the regular depot pipeline can manage. On 26 May 2026, the service stood one up at Warner...
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