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The Navy’s been studying seagliders for littoral ops. The Air Force frets over contested zones. But on April 13, 2026, the Marines—historically the force that thinks different—just flew something that looks like a distant cousin of the Soviet Caspian Sea...
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The morning of April 3, 2026, started like a hundred others at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. But as the final class of A-10C Thunderbolt II student pilots walked across the tarmac after their last sortie, something shifted. The schoolhouse that had trained every...
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For the first time, the U.S. Air Force is asking Congress for money to actually buy — not just develop — autonomous combat drones designed to fly alongside human pilots. The number: $996.5 million. The year: fiscal 2027. The programme: Collaborative Combat Aircraft,...
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The number is 850. That’s how many Tomahawk cruise missiles the United States has fired at Iran in roughly thirty days of war. Each one costs about $2 million. Each one is irreplaceable in the short term. And the Pentagon is running out. The U.S. military...
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The photographs are jarring. A KC-135R Stratotanker — the aircraft that keeps every American warplane in the sky — sits on the apron at RAF Mildenhall, England, covered nose to tail in metal patches. Dozens of them. Each one marks a shrapnel hole punched by an Iranian...
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