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The F-35 pilot never left the ground. He sat in a parked cockpit, tablet in hand, while a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger turned racetracks in the sky overhead. The connection between them was not a fibre cable, not a microwave dish, not even a direct datalink. It was a...
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The infrared image is grainy. Two delta-winged shapes flank a much larger silhouette, and a thin line connects them — a refueling hose, suspended somewhere over the East China Sea. It is May 25, 2026, and a Republic of China Air Force F-16 has just locked its Sniper...
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The most important procurement decision in American naval aviation this decade will be made in August. Two companies — Boeing and Northrop Grumman — are competing for the F/A-XX contract, the programme to build the United States Navy’s sixth-generation...
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The oldest aircraft carrier in the United States Navy is now the most politically charged vessel in the Western Hemisphere. USS Nimitz (CVN-68), with Carrier Air Wing 17 and the guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley in company, entered the Caribbean Sea in late May...
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A loud bang, visible flashes from the left wing, and then the cabin went black. Passengers on Delta flight DL286 from New York JFK to Milan later described the moments that followed as the worst of their lives — an Airbus A330 over France with a failing engine...
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The V-22 Osprey was, for two decades, the boldest aircraft in the U.S. inventory. A tiltrotor that takes off like a helicopter and flies like a turboprop — faster than any helicopter, more flexible than any C-130. It also killed dozens of Marines in its...
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The U.S. Marine Corps just made a quiet but significant decision. For its Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle – Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) programme — the resupply helicopter that will fly Marines and pallets to forward island positions in a Pacific war...
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The C-130 Hercules is the most-flown military airlifter on earth. Lockheed has built more than 2,700 of them since 1956. They have dropped paratroopers into Panama, hauled refugees out of Kabul, gun-shipped over Vietnam, and refuelled half the planet’s special...
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For nearly twenty years, U.S. Special Operations Command has had a quiet, classified advantage. When the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment — the Night Stalkers — takes an MH-47G Chinook into bad terrain at 30 metres above ground, in zero...
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Lockheed Martin has delivered more than 1,200 F-35s. The Pentagon’s 2025 Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) report, published this spring, has now declared the most important upgrade to that fleet — Technology Refresh 3 — operationally...
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The Davis-Monthan boneyard at Tucson, Arizona is the largest aircraft graveyard in the world. Four thousand-plus airframes from every era of postwar American military aviation sit baking in the desert sun under thick layers of preservative spraylat, waiting for the...
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The A-10 Thunderbolt II — the Warthog, the Hog, the GAU-8 with wings — has been on death row at the Pentagon for a decade. The official retirement plan has called for the type to be fully phased out by 2028. The Air Force has gone on record dozens of times saying the...
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