Thunderbirds Ready for Largest Military Flyover in History
The United States Air Force Thunderbirds will perform over the National Mall on July 4th for the first time in the team’s 73-year history. The flyover anchors what organisers are calling the most ambitious aviation spectacle in American history — a formation...
Sea Baby Drone Boats Now Launch FPV Swarms at Sea
A naval drone that costs roughly $200,000 can now launch its own swarm of first-person-view attack drones while underway at sea. The Sea Baby unmanned surface vessel — a remotely piloted maritime platform with a 1,500-kilometre range — has evolved from a...
OA-1K Skyraider Crashed After Pilot Cut Fuel by Mistake
A $17.9 million armed overwatch aircraft is a total loss because a trainee pilot turned the wrong valve during a training sortie. The Air Force Special Operations Command investigation into the October 2025 crash of an OA-1K Skyraider II has revealed a chain of errors...
F-15EX Eagle II Touches Down at Kadena for the First Time
An F-15EX Eagle II has touched down at Kadena Air Base. The newest variant of Boeing’s legendary air superiority fighter landed on Okinawa’s most strategically important airfield on June 29, returning to the Pacific’s frontline base a year after the...
Trump Greenlights $700M Engine Sale for Turkey’s KAAN
The engines Turkey needs for its fifth-generation fighter are on the way — and Washington just wrote the permission slip. The Trump administration has notified Congress of a more than $700 million sale of General Electric F110 turbofan engines for Ankara’s TAI...
GCAP Locked In: UK Pledges £8.6 Billion for Sixth-Gen Fighter
The world’s most ambitious sixth-generation fighter programme just survived its biggest political test. The United Kingdom has committed £8.6 billion over the next four years to the Global Combat Air Programme, as part of its new £298 billion Defence Investment...
How the Next-Gen Airlifter Will Land on Dirt Roads
A C-130J Super Hercules at a forward operating location. The Hercules has served as the backbone of tactical airlift for seven decades, but the Air Force is now planning its eventual replacement. (U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons) Somewhere in the western Pacific,...
The Embraer-Northrop KC-390 Partnership: A Brazilian Tanker for American Skies
A Brazilian Air Force KC-390 Millennium (FAB 2858) on display at NATO Days 2023 in the Czech Republic. The aircraft has rapidly gained traction with European air forces. (Wikimedia Commons) In February 2026, Embraer and Northrop Grumman signed a memorandum of...
The V-22 Osprey: Why Congress Is Still Asking Questions
A Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey aboard a Navy amphibious assault ship. The tiltrotor has replaced the CH-46 Sea Knight in the assault role and the C-2 Greyhound in the carrier delivery role. (U.S. Navy / Wikimedia Commons) The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey was supposed to...
China’s PL-16: The Stealth Missile That Could Outshoot America Over the Pacific
Somewhere in China’s vast defence-industrial complex, a missile is being built that could fundamentally change the arithmetic of air combat over the Pacific. The PL-16 — Beijing’s next-generation beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile — has never been...
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