The WW2 Lesson Russia Is About to Learn: When the Fuel Runs Out, the War Stops
RAND analysis argues that oil shortages alone can grind Russia’s war machine to a halt — just as strikes on fuel infrastructure crippled Nazi Germany in the Second World War. An army that runs out of fuel cannot keep fighting.Michael Bohnert — Analyst, RAND...
500 Drones in a Shipping Container: The Pentagon’s Race to Master Swarm Warfare
The Pentagon wants 500 drones in a single swarm. Not someday. Not in theory. Right now, DARPA is soliciting proposals for containerised autonomous drone systems capable of launching, recovering, and coordinating constellations of up to 500 unmanned aircraft from...
The Platypus Is Bleeding Out: Russia’s Su-34 Fullback Losses Are Outpacing Production
On 27 June 2025, Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck Marinovka airbase in Russia’s Volgograd region. When the smoke cleared, four Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers were destroyed on the ground. Four aircraft, gone in a single strike — each one worth...
America’s Fighter Factory Problem: Why the World’s Largest Air Force Can’t Build Jets Fast Enough
Yesterday, we reported on a remarkable letter from the nation’s Adjutants General to Congress, demanding the Air Force buy at least 72 — and ideally 100 — new fighters per year to prevent the force from shrinking below the threshold needed to fight a major war....
From a Bar in Russia to the Drone Wars: The L-39 Story — and How It Built MiGFlug
There is no jet trainer on earth with a longer shadow than the Aero L-39 Albatros. More than 3,000 built. Flown by over 30 air forces on five continents. The backbone of Warsaw Pact pilot training for two decades, and still — in 2026 — the aircraft that introduces...
Royal Marines Seize Russian Shadow Fleet Tanker in Dramatic English Channel Raid
Before dawn on 14 June, two Royal Air Force Chinook helicopters thundered low over the English Channel toward a 244-metre oil tanker flying the flag of Cameroon. Hanging beneath them, silhouetted against the first grey light, were Royal Marines from Kilo Company, 42...
Algeria Turns to China: J-10C Fighters and KJ-500 AWACS Break Six Decades of Russian Monopoly
For more than six decades, every fighter jet in the Algerian Air Force has come from one country: Russia. MiG-21s, MiG-25s, Su-30MKAs, MiG-29s — the entire combat fleet reads like a catalogue of Soviet and Russian design bureaux. That era is about to end. According to...
Ukrainian F-16 Pilots Threw Away the NATO Playbook — Here’s What They Built Instead
The West gave Ukraine its best single-engine fighter. Then Ukraine’s pilots threw away the instruction manual. Since the first F-16 Fighting Falcons arrived in Ukrainian skies in August 2024, the pilots who fly them have compiled a combat record that no NATO...
C-17s Over Caracas: When Earthquakes Call, the Air Force Answers
When twin earthquakes ripped through northern Venezuela on 24 June — a magnitude 7.2 foreshock followed 39 seconds later by a catastrophic magnitude 7.5 mainshock — the country’s fragile infrastructure collapsed in minutes. Buildings pancaked across Caracas....
Edwards Resumes Flying After Deadliest B-52 Crash in 44 Years
Edwards Air Force Base is flying again. The question everyone at the desert test centre is still asking is why it had to stop. On 15 June, B-52H tail number 60-0061 — call sign Torch 11 — crashed moments after takeoff from Edwards, killing all eight people aboard. It...
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