The Boeing Stealth Aircraft Built 15 Years Before the F-117
The history books tell us that stealth was born in 1977, when Lockheed’s “Have Blue” demonstrator first flew at Groom Lake and proved that an aircraft could be designed to disappear from radar. The history books are wrong by fifteen years. The first...
Wall Street Just Found Its Favourite Drone Stocks
Wall Street had a quiet revelation this week. On Thursday morning, drone stocks ripped higher across the board after a Wall Street Journal report revealed that the Trump administration is exploring direct equity investments in domestic drone manufacturers. The numbers...
86 Years Ago Today: The F4U Corsair Takes Its First Flight
Eighty-six years ago today, on the morning of 29 May 1940, Vought-Sikorsky senior test pilot Lyman Bullard Jr. pushed the throttle of an experimental fighter prototype called the XF4U-1, rolled down the runway at Bridgeport Municipal Airport in Connecticut, and...
Congress Pushes Back on Air Force Plan to Slash MH-139 Grey Wolf Buy
The Air Force quietly scaled back its planned MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopter buy. Congress is just as quietly pushing back. Lawmakers have written language into the draft fiscal year 2027 defence bill adding four Grey Wolf helicopters on top of the four the Air Force...
Night Stalker MH-47 Chinooks Could Become Their Own Tankers
The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment — the famous Night Stalkers — could one day give its MH-47G Chinooks a job they have never had before: aerial refuelling tanker. Comments by senior officials at this month’s SOF Week conference revealed that US Army...
Airbus Quietly Courts Saab as Europe’s 6th-Gen Fighter Breaks Apart
Europe’s flagship sixth-generation fighter project is falling apart in slow motion — and now Airbus is quietly reaching out to Sweden’s Saab. The conversations, first reported this week, would have been unthinkable five years ago. They are not unthinkable...
Navy Eyes Super Hornets to Replace the Last F-5 Aggressors
For decades, the small, sharp F-5N Tiger II has played the bad guy at the US Navy’s adversary squadrons. Painted in Russian and Chinese splinter schemes, the little 1960s-vintage fighter has been the loyal MiG stand-in for thousands of Topgun students. That era...
Israel’s First KC-46A ‘Gideon’ Tanker Lands at Nevatim
The Israeli Air Force has a new tanker — and a new name on its tail. The first KC-46A “Gideon” arrived at Nevatim Air Base on 27 May, the first of six Boeing tankers Israel has ordered at the height of the F-35I fleet expansion. After years of patching...
MQ-28 Ghost Bat Lands in California for Its First US Flights
The MQ-28 Ghost Bat just made its US debut — not in a hangar, not at an airshow, but in the air. Boeing confirmed on 27 May 2026 that its Australian-built autonomous combat drone has completed three operational flights over the Point Mugu Sea Range at US Naval Base...
Ukraine Inks €2.5 Billion Gripen E Deal With Sweden
Uppsala, 28 May 2026. Volodymyr Zelensky walked onto the apron at Uppsala air base under a grey Swedish sky, shook hands with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, and announced what is — by any measure — the largest Western fighter package Ukraine has ever secured. The...
English
Recent Comments