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A two-second Instagram clip from Edwards Air Force Base has confirmed what the Pentagon kept quiet for months: the B-1B Lancer is now carrying the AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic missile externally. It is the first time the weapon — cancelled in 2023, quietly resurrected in...
Military Aviation
In August 2026, the United States Navy will choose which company builds its next fighter jet. The F/A-XX — a sixth-generation carrier-based aircraft designed to replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet — is down to two competitors: Boeing and Northrop Grumman. Lockheed...
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Israel’s first KC-46A Pegasus tanker — designated “Gideon” by the Israeli Air Force — completed its maiden flight in the United States on 4 May 2026. Delivery is expected within weeks. The aircraft will replace Boeing 707-based tankers that have been...
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The first true flight prototype of Turkey’s fifth-generation KAAN fighter jet is expected to take off within weeks. Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has confirmed the aircraft — featuring full sensors, refined aerodynamics, and mission systems absent from the...
Military Aviation
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Aviation World
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...
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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,...
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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...
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