South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae Enters Service
Am 25. März 2026 rollte bei Korea Aerospace Industries in Sacheon das erste Serienexemplar der KF-21 Boramae aus der Montagehalle. Nicht ein weiterer Prototyp. Nicht eine Vorserienmaschine. Das erste Exemplar einer geplanten Bauserie von 120 Maschinen, bestimmt für...
Golden Dome: $3.2B for Space-Based Interceptors
Twelve companies. $3.2 billion. Interceptors that kill missiles from orbit. The U.S. Space Force just awarded the first major contracts for Golden Dome’s space-based interceptor layer, and the list of winners reads like a who’s who of Silicon Valley...
Saildrone Spectre: The Unmanned Warship With Tomahawks
No crew quarters. No mess hall. No bridge watch. Just 170 feet of autonomous warship carrying Tomahawk cruise missiles in a hidden deck compartment, capable of crossing an ocean without a single human aboard. Saildrone’s Spectre is the kind of vessel that sounds...
Netherlands First in Europe to Join US Drone Wingman Programme
Am 24. April 2026 formalisierten das Department of the Air Force und das niederländische Verteidigungsministerium — but this story belongs in English because its implications are transatlantic. The Netherlands has become the first European nation to join the United...
HH-60W Jolly Green Takes Over DC’s Doomsday Mission
If Washington goes dark — nuclear strike, decapitation attack, catastrophic disaster — the first aircraft in the sky won’t be Air Force One. It will be a helicopter lifting VIPs from the Pentagon, the Capitol, and secure locations across the National Capital...
Soviet Turboprop Becomes Airborne Drone Hunter
A Soviet-designed passenger turboprop, built to ferry 17 commuters between regional airports, now hunts kamikaze drones at night over Ukraine. The Antonov An-28 — a boxy, twin-engine workhorse that first flew in 1969 — has been converted into an airborne interceptor...
The Sea Harrier’s Falklands Score: 20–0
Twenty kills. Zero losses. In the spring of 1982, a handful of British Sea Harriers — subsonic, short-ranged, outnumbered — went to war over the South Atlantic against the Argentine Air Force. They were not supposed to win. They won anyway. The Falklands War air...
Iran Showed F-15 Wreckage, Called It an F-35
Iran claimed it shot down an American F-35 stealth fighter. Then it displayed the wreckage for the cameras. There was just one problem: the debris clearly belonged to an F-15E Strike Eagle — a completely different aircraft that is not stealth, not single-engine, and...
MQ-25 Stingray: First Flight Days Away
Boeing’s MQ-25 Stingray — the U.S. Navy’s first carrier-based unmanned tanker — has completed high-speed taxi tests and is days from its maiden flight. After years of delays, budget overruns, and engineering challenges, the aircraft that will fundamentally...
Saab Targets 36 Gripens a Year as Orders Surge
Saab is building Gripens faster than at any point in the fighter’s three-decade history — and it is not fast enough. On April 23, CEO Micael Johansson told investors that production is heading toward 20 to 30 aircraft per year, up from roughly 15 today, with a...
English
Recent Comments