The Army Just Strapped a Rocket Launcher to a 150-Pound Cargo Drone
Somewhere at Fort Rucker, Alabama, the US Army took a delivery drone — the kind built to fly a cooler of MREs and ammo to an infantry squad — and bolted a rocket launcher onto it. Then it lit the rockets off. The test on 20 May 2026 paired a Survice Engineering...
YAL-1: The 747 With a Megawatt Death Ray Strapped Inside
The Boeing YAL-1 was an exercise in audacious physics. Take a 747-400F freighter. Cut open the nose. Bolt in a megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser the size of six SUVs. Aim it at a ballistic missile climbing through the atmosphere at Mach 7, and pump enough...
Canada Just Bet on Leonardo’s Newest Trainer Jet
If you wanted to draw a quiet line on a world map showing where Leonardo’s jet trainer business is winning, you would now need to extend it across the Atlantic. On 26 May 2026, at the company’s Venegono plant north of Milan, ITPS Canada signed for six...
Russia’s Two-Seat Su-57D Isn’t a Trainer — It’s a Drone Commander
For a week, the story was almost cute. Russia rolls out a two-seat Su-57. Western analysts squint at the grainy photos, nod knowingly, and file it under trainer variant — probably for export to India. The kind of footnote that gets one tweet and dies. Then on 25 May...
Chengdu’s Building Boom: China Is on Track for 400 Stealth Fighters a Year
If you want to know what a country is really planning, don’t read the press releases. Look at the parking lots. That’s been the quiet refrain among open-source defence analysts for two years now, as a small army of nerds armed with commercial satellite...
A Russian Drone Just Hit a NATO Apartment Building
At precisely the moment Bucharest was hoping the war next door would stay next door, a Russian Geran-2 — the Tehran-designed Shahed-136 rebadged in Cyrillic — drifted some four minutes through Romanian airspace and detonated on the roof of an apartment block in...
Hermeus Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 Just Broke the Sound Barrier — On Its Third Flight
A startup with fewer employees than a regional Cracker Barrel just outran every other unmanned jet on the planet. On 26 May 2026, Hermeus’ Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 lit afterburner over New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range, punched through the sound barrier...
Wall Street Just Found Its Favourite Drone Stocks
Wall Street had a quiet revelation this week. On Wednesday 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...
86 Years Ago Today: The F4U Corsair Takes Its First Flight
Eighty-six years ago today, at 11:42 in the morning on 29 May 1940, a young Vought-Sikorsky test pilot named Lyman Bullard Jr. pushed the throttle of an experimental fighter prototype called the XF4U-1, rolled down the runway at Bridgeport Municipal Airport in...
Congress Pushes Back on Air Force Plan to Slash MH-139 Grey Wolf Buy
The Air Force quietly proposed cutting its planned MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopter buy in half. Congress is just as quietly pushing back. Lawmakers from both parties have written language into the draft fiscal year 2027 defence bill requiring the Air Force to procure the...
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