Washington Pulls Half Its Strike Power From Europe
The United States has notified NATO that it intends to cut by 50% the long-range strike capabilities allocated to the defence of Europe. The announcement, expected to be formalised at the June NATO conference on force distribution, marks the most significant American...
Rafales Intercept Russian Su-30s Armed With NATO-Killer Missiles
French Rafale pilots operating from Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania have been having a busy spring. Since France took command of the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission on March 31, their four Rafale B fighters have scrambled repeatedly to intercept Russian combat...
Italy Rushes Fighter Jets to Romania After Russian Drone Injures Two
On May 29, the warhead of an Iranian-designed Shahed drone detonated on the roof of an apartment building in Galați, eastern Romania. Two people were injured. Several more were evacuated while firefighters fought the blaze. It was the first time a Russian drone had...
Fifth Ship Disabled: A Hellfire Missile Into the Engine Room
Twenty warnings. More than twenty radio calls, signal flares, and direct hails. The crew of the Gambian-flagged M/V Lian Star ignored every one. On May 29, somewhere in the opal waters of the Gulf of Oman, a U.S. aircraft fired an AGM-114 Hellfire missile into the...
A Chinese Missile Brought Down an American F-15 — and That Changes Everything
On the afternoon of April 3, somewhere over the scrubby hills of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in southwestern Iran, a shoulder-fired missile — roughly seven feet long and weighing about 40 pounds — slammed into an F-15E Strike Eagle from the 494th Fighter...
Air Force One Is Late — Here Is Every Boeing Jet Behind Schedule in 2026
The President of the United States is about to start flying around the world on a Qatari hand-me-down. Trump’s interim Air Force One is a former royal Boeing 747-8 from Doha that the Air Force is repainting red, white and blue because the actual Air Force Ones —...
F-47 NGAD: 185 Jets, Mach 2+, and One Big Problem Nobody Talks About
The F-47 has a $20 billion prime contract, 185-plus jets on order, Mach 2-plus on the spec sheet, up to eight robot wingmen each, and a $300 million per copy sticker that would make a Lamborghini dealer blush. The Air Force is building it in St. Louis. Boeing’s...
Lufthansa’s 10-and-10 Widebody Bet — and Why the Split Matters
The Lufthansa Group supervisory board signed off on the 20-widebody order two weeks ago — ten Airbus A350-900s and ten Boeing 787-9s, $7.7 billion at list, deliveries 2032 through 2034. The headline numbers have been digested. What deserves a second look is the...
The Army Just Strapped a Rocket Launcher to a 150-Pound Cargo Drone
Somewhere at Fort Rucker, Alabama, the US Army took a delivery drone — the kind built to fly a cooler of MREs and ammo to an infantry squad — and bolted a rocket launcher onto it. Then it lit the rockets off. The test on 20 May 2026 paired a Survice Engineering...
Canada Just Bet on Leonardo’s Newest Trainer Jet
If you wanted to draw a quiet line on a world map showing where Leonardo’s jet trainer business is winning, you would now need to extend it across the Atlantic. On 26 May 2026, at the company’s Venegono plant north of Milan, ITPS Canada signed for six...
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