Israeli Tanks Are Now Wearing Galilee Fishing Nets
Fishing nets have been a feature of the Sea of Galilee since the time of the apostles. Now they are draped over Israeli Merkava tanks, Humvees and forward observation posts in southern Lebanon — and they are stopping Hezbollah FPV drones from finding the kill spot on...
The Pentagon Just Launched a Crash Investigation Into Itself
Two EA-18G Growlers collided mid-air over the Mountain Home airshow in May. A T-45 Goshawk went down in Mississippi last week. Two more Growlers had a near-miss the same weekend over the Pacific Northwest. An A-10 lost a wing strake. A KC-46 reported a critical...
The Glider-Like Spy Drone the USAF Is Sending to Replace the Reaper
It looks like a motor glider. It practically is a motor glider. The DZYNE Technologies ULTRA — the Unmanned Long-endurance Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft — has a 28-foot wing, a single turbocharged piston engine, no pilot, and the kind of slender white fuselage you...
Battle-Damaged KC-135 Tankers Are Limping Home Through Mildenhall
Plane spotters at RAF Mildenhall pulled out their long lenses last week and got a picture nobody at Air Mobility Command was hoping to see twice. A US Air Force KC-135R Stratotanker, peppered with what aviation analysts identified as shrapnel impacts down the fuselage...
Two Pilots Eject as Navy T-45 Goshawk Crashes in Mississippi
Two Martin-Baker ejection seats fired into a Mississippi sky on the afternoon of 26 May 2026. The T-45C Goshawk they had just left came down in farmland near Naval Air Station Meridian, Mississippi. Both pilots — an instructor and a student naval aviator — were on the...
USAF Builds a ‘Speedline’ to Upgrade F-15E Strike Eagles for the Next War
The phrase the Air Force uses is “speedline.” It is the polite way to say: this is taking too long, we are going to do it differently, in one building, faster than the regular depot pipeline can manage. On 26 May 2026, the service stood one up at Warner...
F-35 Just Took Command of a Stealth Combat Drone in Flight
The F-35 pilot never left the ground. He sat in a parked cockpit at Edwards Air Force Base, tablet in hand, while a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger turned racetracks in the sky overhead. The connection between them was not a fibre cable, not a microwave dish, not even a...
Caught on Camera: A Chinese Tanker Refueled Two Fighters Inside Taiwan’s ADIZ
The infrared image is grainy. Two delta-winged shapes flank a much larger silhouette, and a thin line connects them — a refueling hose, suspended somewhere over the East China Sea. It is May 25, 2026, and a Republic of China Air Force F-16 has just locked its Sniper...
The Soviet Bomber Test Pilots Called “The Chicken”
If you had asked a Soviet test pilot in 1940 to name the strangest aeroplane he had ever been ordered to fly, there is an excellent chance the answer would have come back as four syllables: Дэ-Бэ Эл-Ка. The Belyayev DB-LK. Two fuselages, no central cockpit,...
The B-29’s Pressurised Crawl Tunnel: 1940s Engineering Genius
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was the most expensive single weapons programme of the Second World War. It cost more than the Manhattan Project. Its development consumed three billion dollars of 1944 money — call it sixty billion today — and produced an aircraft that...
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