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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment — the famous Night Stalkers — could one day give its MH-47G Chinooks a job they have never had before: aerial refuelling tanker. Comments by senior officials at this month’s SOF Week conference revealed that US Army...
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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...
Aviation World, News
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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