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The Davis-Monthan boneyard at Tucson, Arizona is the largest aircraft graveyard in the world. Four thousand-plus airframes from every era of postwar American military aviation sit baking in the desert sun under thick layers of preservative spraylat, waiting for the...
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On 22 May 2026, the first Boeing E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft landed at RAF Lossiemouth in northern Scotland. It is the first time the type has touched down at its operational home base. The RAF, after seventeen years without a credible...
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The A-10 Thunderbolt II — the Warthog, the Hog, the GAU-8 with wings — has been on death row at the Pentagon for a decade. The official retirement plan has called for the type to be fully phased out by 2028. The Air Force has gone on record dozens of times saying the...
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An airborne early warning aircraft is not, technically, a stealth platform. It is the opposite of stealth. The whole point of an AEW airframe is that it is up there, loud in the radio spectrum, broadcasting a powerful surveillance radar so it can see incoming threats...
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Qatar Airways finished its 2025/26 financial year with a net profit of US$1.94 billion. It is the highest annual profit in the airline’s history and, at current exchange rates, exceeds the combined annual profit of British Airways, Air France-KLM, and Lufthansa...
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The cope cage is a Russian invention. It started as a piece of welded mesh hammered onto the turret of a T-72 in Ukraine in 2022, a frantic improvisation to detonate Ukrainian top-attack munitions a half-metre above the armour rather than against it. Since then it has...
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For more than a decade, the UK’s F-35B Lightning II programme has been chasing a single technical milestone that politicians, MPs, and the Royal Air Force itself have all asked about repeatedly: when will the F-35B be able to actually fire a British weapon. The...
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On 12 February 2023, two days after a Chinese spy balloon had been shot down over the Atlantic and one day after a similar object had been destroyed over the Yukon, a third unidentified aerial phenomenon was tracked at 20,000 feet over Lake Huron. A U.S. Air National...
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The Turkish Aerospace Industries Hürjet has, until this month, been pitched to international customers as an advanced jet trainer — the natural successor to the BAE Hawk, the South Korean KAI T-50, the Italian M-346. A 100% Turkish-designed, supersonic, twin-seat...
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The Diamond Nine is to the British what the Blue Angels’ Delta is to the Americans: a closing formation so tight and so visually unforgettable that for sixty years it has been the single most iconic shape in the sky over Britain. Nine red BAE Hawk T1s in a...
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Eve Air Mobility has cleared its most critical test milestone yet. The Embraer-backed eVTOL developer announced that its full-scale engineering prototype has completed the entire hover and low-speed flight test phase, delivering the high-fidelity aerodynamic and...
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Twelve billion dollars. Gone. The top ten eVTOL companies have collectively burned through $12 billion in investor capital — four times what was lost during the very light jet craze of the late 1990s, and six times Boeing’s entire annual profit. Not one of them...
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