B-21 Raider Production Accelerates — 200+ Bombers on the Table
The most expensive aircraft program in American history just kicked into a higher gear. Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force have signed a $4.5 billion deal to increase B-21 Raider production capacity by 25 percent, compressing delivery timelines for the...
Air Force Fighter Fleet Drops Below Legal Minimum
For the first time in nearly a decade, the U.S. Air Force’s primary fighter fleet has fallen below the minimum size that Congress wrote into law. The number that was supposed to be a floor has become a ceiling, and the gap between what America needs in the air...
Spain Rolls Out Its First Halcon Eurofighter
On the first day of June, under the sharp Castilian sun, a new chapter in European combat aviation was written at the Airbus Defence and Space assembly line in Getafe, just south of Madrid. Spain rolled out its first Tranche 4 Eurofighter Typhoon, a twin-seat aircraft...
Navy Arms Carriers with Hellfire Missiles Against Drone Swarms
The U.S. Navy has quietly embarked on one of its most urgent fleet-wide upgrades in decades. Radar-guided AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles and Coyote interceptor drones are being rushed to carrier strike groups centered on the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Theodore...
KF-21 Boramae: South Korea’s Fighter Completes Flight Testing
On 13 January 2026, South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration quietly announced what amounts to a seismic shift in the global fighter market: the KF-21 Boramae had completed its flight test programme. Two months ahead of schedule. 1,600 sorties...
Pentagon Orders 10,000 Cruise Missiles in Three Years
The Pentagon is done talking about the missile gap — it is buying its way out. In a move that would have been unthinkable five years ago, the Department of Defense has signed framework agreements with four contractors to procure more than 10,000 low-cost cruise...
Ghost Bat Passes Its Stealth Exam
Suspended by overhead cables inside a cavernous anechoic chamber, the MQ-28 Ghost Bat looked less like a combat aircraft and more like a museum exhibit frozen in mid-flight. But the data streaming off that motionless airframe told a story Boeing has been waiting years...
GBU-76: America’s Next Bunker Buster Gets Its Name
America’s next earth-penetrating superweapon has a name. On June 1, the Air Force Materiel Command formally designated the Next Generation Penetrator as the GBU-76/B, posting a sources-sought notice that invited industry to line up behind a weapon designed to...
Russia Rebuilds Its Eyes: Another A-50U Joins the Fleet
Somewhere on a Russian military airfield, ground crews recently rolled out a freshly painted Beriev A-50U — the latest modernized airborne early warning aircraft to join the fleet, and a replacement Russia desperately needed. An image first shared on May 31 by the...
Why Aviators Trade Fortunes for the Trap
The deck rushes up like a wall. One hundred fifty meters of steel pitching on a black ocean, and the only thing that matters is the glowing amber dot they call the meatball. The jet slams down at 155 knots, the tailhook bites a wire, and in 1.2 seconds you stop. Your...
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