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In less than two weeks, a Vega-C rocket will lift off from French Guiana carrying one of the most ambitious space science payloads in years. Its cargo: SMILE, the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer — a spacecraft built to photograph Earth’s...
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For decades, Finnair had one of the cleverest strategies in commercial aviation. Helsinki sits almost exactly on the great circle route between Western Europe and East Asia. Fly from Paris to Tokyo, and the shortest path passes directly over Finland. Finnair exploited...
Aviation World, News
At 3:00 in the morning on May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines — the canary-yellow budget carrier that taught America to pay for everything from carry-on bags to seat assignments — cancelled every flight, shut down its customer service lines, and told passengers not to come...
Military Aviation, News
Somewhere in America, at every hour of every day, a crew sits in a windowless aircraft ready to take off on five minutes’ notice. Their mission: to become the airborne command post of the United States if the ground-based centres that control the nation’s...
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On May 1, 2026, the USS Gerald R. Ford passed through the Suez Canal heading north, her grey hull still streaked with the salt and grime of ten months at sea. Behind her stretched the longest carrier deployment in modern American naval history — 314 days and counting,...
Military Aviation, News
It looks like a business jet because it is one — a Bombardier Global 6000 in Air Force grey, orbiting quietly at 50,000 feet with no weapons, no sensors, and no missiles. But ask any soldier, Marine, or special operator who served in Afghanistan about the E-11A, and...
Military Aviation, News
One hundred stealth bombers. That has been the number since the B-21 Raider programme was announced — the minimum buy the Air Force said it needed to replace the aging B-2 Spirit and B-1B Lancer fleets. One hundred was already ambitious. Now the man who controls the...
Military Aviation, News
Buried beneath hundreds of metres of rock and reinforced concrete, Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment plant survived the most intense conventional bombing campaign in modern history. The 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators dropped by B-2 Spirit...
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Imagine a C-17 Globemaster — the workhorse cargo plane that usually hauls Humvees and MREs — opening its rear ramp at 25,000 feet and disgorging a stream of cruise missiles that fan out across the sky, each steering itself toward a separate target hundreds of miles...
Military Aviation, News
The satellite image is dated March 26, 2026. Two enormous flying-wing aircraft sit on the apron of a secretive test facility in the deserts of Xinjiang, western China. One has a wingspan analysts estimate at 173 feet — roughly the width of a Northrop Grumman B-2...
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For three decades, it was the worst-kept secret in American aviation. A gruelling desert hike, a scramble up a 7,915-foot peak, a pair of good binoculars, and you could see it: the runways, the hangars, the taxiways of the most classified airfield on Earth. Now the...
Military Aviation, News
The video is grainy, shot from a chase plane banking hard over the grey North Sea. A Belgian F-16 rolls in, and six stubby rocket pods glow briefly as a volley of precision-guided munitions streaks toward a target drone. The drone disintegrates. The Belgian Air Force...
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