The Warship That Prints Its Own Drones at Sea
Picture a shipping container bolted to the deck of a warship, its interior glowing with the soft light of industrial 3D printers. Outside, the sea is heaving — twelve-foot waves, some of the roughest water off California in five years. Inside, layer by layer,...
Ukraine Hits Russia’s Deepest Refinery Yet
Just after dawn on Monday, air-raid sirens and the buzz of engines reached a city most of the war had never touched. Nizhnekamsk sits roughly 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) from the nearest Ukrainian-held ground, deep in the Russian republic of Tatarstan. By mid-morning...
The Silver Eagles Come Back for the Carrier
A Marine fighter squadron that flew its last Hornet into retirement in 2023 is coming back — and this time it is coming back for the carrier deck.On 31 July 2026, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115, the “Silver Eagles,” flew the F-35C Lightning II...
Taiwan Just Hid Its Fighters Inside a Mountain
Somewhere under the granite of Taiwan’s Central Mountain Range, a squadron of fighter jets rolled into a cave and the blast doors closed behind them. This was not a movie set. It was this week’s headline act of Han Kuang 42, the island’s largest...
The Cessna That Found an F-16 on Its Wing
It is the kind of thing a weekend pilot never expects to see filling the windscreen: the grey nose of an F-16 Fighting Falcon sliding into formation a few wingspans away, wings heavy with missiles. On Sunday, at least one general-aviation pilot over New Jersey got...
Ukraine Blinds Russia’s Air Defenses, 270 km Deep
A modern air-defense network is only as good as its eyes. Blind the radars and the missiles behind them are firing at ghosts. On 2 August 2026, Ukraine set out to do exactly that — not at the front line, but more than 270 kilometres behind it, deep inside...
An F-35, a MiG-17, and a Faked Pearl Harbor
For two days this weekend, the flattest stretch of Nebraska turns into the loudest. Offutt Air Force Base throws open its gates on 8 and 9 August for the 2026 Defenders of Freedom Air & Space Show, and the headline act is the one everyone came to see: a...
The Delta That Carried France’s Atom Bomb
In 1964, France joined the nuclear club on its own terms. Refusing to depend on American or British weapons, it built a sleek supersonic delta to carry its own bomb — a two-seat, twin-engined thoroughbred that could dash toward Moscow at twice the speed of...
The Little Warplane That Wouldn’t Die
Most Vietnam-era warplanes are long gone — melted into scrap or bolted to a museum pole. The OV-10 Bronco keeps refusing to leave. Built to fight guerrillas in the 1960s, the funny little twin-boom turboprop has come roaring back again and again: over the Mekong...
The Army’s Spy Plane With Three Tails
By a decades-old agreement between the U.S. services, the Army isn’t really supposed to fly its own combat aeroplanes — that job belongs to the Air Force. The Grumman OV-1 Mohawk is the great exception: a stubby, triple-tailed, bug-eyed turboprop built for...
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