One Engine or Two? The Fighter Debate That Never Dies
It is the oldest argument in fighter aviation. One engine or two? The question has shaped procurement decisions worth hundreds of billions of dollars, determined which aircraft entire nations fly, and sparked debates in every officers’ club and internet forum on...
SMILE: Europe and China Photograph Earth’s Magnetic Shield
In less than two weeks, a Vega-C rocket will lift off from French Guiana carrying one of the most ambitious space science payloads in years. Its cargo: SMILE, the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer — a spacecraft built to photograph Earth’s...
The New Doomsday Plane: E-130J Replaces the Cold War Original
Somewhere in America, at every hour of every day, a crew sits in a windowless aircraft ready to take off on five minutes’ notice. Their mission: to become the airborne command post of the United States if the ground-based centres that control the nation’s...
America’s Next Nuclear Bunker Buster Revealed
Buried beneath hundreds of metres of rock and reinforced concrete, Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment plant survived the most intense conventional bombing campaign in modern history. The 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators dropped by B-2 Spirit...
China’s B-2-Sized Stealth Drones Spotted at Secret Base
The satellite image is dated March 26, 2026. Two enormous flying-wing aircraft sit on the apron of a secretive test facility in the deserts of Xinjiang, western China. One has a wingspan analysts estimate at 173 feet — roughly the width of a Northrop Grumman B-2...
Sea Dart: The Only Supersonic Seaplane Ever Built
On August 3, 1954, a delta-winged jet fighter accelerated across the surface of San Diego Bay on twin retractable hydro-skis, lifted off the water, climbed to altitude, and exceeded Mach 1 in a shallow dive. No runway. No carrier deck. Just open water, two...
How M-Code GPS Works — and Why Enemies Can’t Jam It
Every military aircraft, ship, and guided weapon in the American arsenal depends on GPS. And every adversary with a $50,000 jammer can degrade or deny that signal across an entire operational area. This vulnerability — demonstrated by Iran during Operation Epic Fury,...
USS Eisenhower Returns: 15 Months in Drydock, Ready for the Fleet
On April 24, the US Navy announced that USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) had completed sea trials following a 15-month maintenance availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The carrier — known universally as “IKE” — is back in fighting shape and widely...
The Heinkel He 100: The Fastest Fighter Germany Refused to Build
On March 30, 1939, test pilot Hans Dieterle pushed the Heinkel He 100 V8 past 746 kilometres per hour over a measured course near Rostock — setting an absolute world speed record for piston-engine aircraft. The Heinkel was faster than every fighter in the world. It...
The F-22 Can Now Fight Blind: Jam-Resistant Navigation Goes Operational
Northrop Grumman has delivered the first production unit of a navigation system designed to solve one of modern air combat’s most dangerous problems: what happens when the enemy jams your GPS. The Embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation System Modernisation, designated...
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