Thales Builds a Laser-Guided Rocket to Swat Drones
The cheapest way to kill a cheap drone might be a guided rocket that costs a fraction of a missile. At Eurosatory 2026, French defence giant Thales unveiled the LGR275 “Proxy,” a 70 mm laser-guided rocket built specifically to shoot down small drones. It...
Ukraine Unveils an 800 km/h Jet Strike Drone
Ukraine has turned wartime necessity into an export business — and its newest product flies at the speed of a passenger jet. At Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, Ukraine’s defence industry unveiled the UAV-290, a jet-powered long-range strike drone. Powered by a...
China’s J-50 Stealth Fighter Caught Flying Again
China appears to be flight-testing not one but two sixth-generation fighters at once — and the lesser-known of the pair just resurfaced in fresh 2026 imagery. New footage and images circulating from facilities linked to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation show what...
India’s Scramjet Just Burned for 20 Minutes Straight
For nearly twenty minutes, a scramjet engine in Hyderabad kept burning — and with it, India edged closer to a weapon that flies faster than almost anything can stop. India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation announced that it ran a full-scale,...
Six Russian Jets, One Day: NATO’s Busiest Baltic Scramble
It was a busy afternoon over the Baltic. In a single day, NATO fighters scrambled to intercept six Russian military aircraft — a fighter, a strike jet, and a reconnaissance plane among them — flying four different kinds of mission at once. On June 2, 2026,...
Turkey Pairs the KAAN With Two Robot Wingmen
Turkey wants its fifth-generation fighter to fly to war with a robot wingman on each shoulder. At the World Defense Show 2026, Turkish Aerospace Industries unveiled a manned-unmanned teaming concept that pairs the KAAN fighter with two Anka III stealth combat drones....
The F-35’s Mystery Buyer: 11 Jets, No Name
Somebody just ordered eleven F-35 stealth fighters. The Pentagon won’t say who. On June 9, 2026, the U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $154 million contract to begin buying long-lead components for eleven F-35 Lightning IIs destined for a foreign military...
A Russian Tu-22M3 Bomber Nosedives Into Siberia
The video is brief and brutal. A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber, one of the heaviest combat aircraft Moscow flies, tips into a steep nose-down dive, trails fire, and disappears behind a treeline. A beat later, a column of black smoke marks where it hit the forest...
Eight Dead as a B-52 Goes Down at Edwards
The first sign was the smoke. A black column climbing over the Mojave Desert, visible for miles, fed by a bomber that had been full of fuel seconds earlier. By the time Edwards Air Force Base confirmed what everyone watching already feared, a B-52H Stratofortress was...
The B-52 at 70: The Bomber That Will Outlive Everything Designed to Replace It
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress first flew on April 15, 1952. The youngest airframe in the fleet was delivered in October 1962. Every B-52 flying today is older than every crew member flying it — and many are older than the crew members’ parents. The Air Force...
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