Boeing Lands a Chinook Without Anyone at the Controls
On April 16, 2026, a Boeing CH-47F Chinook helicopter executed a fully automated landing. No hands on the controls. No feet on the pedals. The 64-year-old design descended, flared, and touched down under the authority of software — and did so with a position error of...
LOT Polish Airlines Sues Boeing Over Hidden MAX Risks
The 737 MAX crisis produced some of the most consequential aviation litigation in history. There were settlements with the families of the 346 victims. There were billion-dollar government penalties. There were executive depositions, congressional hearings, and a...
Lithuania Shuts Airport Over Smuggler Balloons
Vilnius Airport is being shut down by balloons. Not military balloons. Not weather balloons. Cigarette balloons — launched from Belarus, loaded with contraband, and drifting at altitudes that put them in direct conflict with commercial aircraft on final approach....
Pentagon Seeks $1 Billion for First CCA Drone Production
The Pentagon wants $1 billion to stop building drone wingman prototypes and start building drone wingman weapons. The difference matters — and the price tag signals just how seriously the Air Force is taking it. The FY2027 budget request, submitted to Congress this...
Russia’s Sarmat ICBM: Operational Deployment This Year
At 11:15 Moscow time on 12 May 2026, a plume of exhaust boiled out of a silo at Plesetsk Cosmodrome and the RS-28 Sarmat lifted from Russian soil for the first time in an operationally valid test. It was a moment that had been delayed, interrupted, and twice preceded...
Golden Dome: $1.2 Trillion and Counting
Donald Trump promised a Golden Dome missile defense shield for $175 billion. The Congressional Budget Office has a different number: $1.2 trillion. Over twenty years. That is not a rounding error. That is a chasm between political promise and fiscal reality large...
South Korea Weighs Joining the Hormuz Blockade
In a conference room in Washington on a Monday morning, two defence ministers sat across a table and began a conversation that could reshape Asia’s role in the Middle East. Pete Hegseth, America’s Secretary of Defense, has made “stand shoulder-to-shoulder”...
Air Combat Command Takes Over All Fighter Pilot Training
Starting this summer, if you want to learn to fly an F-35, an F-16, or pilot an MQ-9 for the United States Air Force, you’ll be trained by Air Combat Command — not Air Education and Training Command. It’s a big reorganization, and the reasoning is...
How Autonomous Military Flight Actually Works
In March 2025, a CH-47 Chinook completed an autonomous approach and landing at an undisclosed test facility. There was no pilot in the left seat, no co-pilot in the right. Boeing’s A2X system — a retrofit autonomy package — had accumulated over 150 autonomous...
What $29 Billion of Iran Operations Actually Bought
The Pentagon told Congress on May 12 that Operation Epic Fury — the US military campaign against Iran — has now cost approximately $29 billion. If that number sounds familiar, it should: just two weeks ago the estimate was $25 billion. The arithmetic there is four...
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