The C-5 Galaxy: 37% Ready and Flying Until 2050
On paper, the C-5 Galaxy is the most capable military transport aircraft ever built by the Western world. In practice, on any given day in 2025, 63 percent of the fleet is broken. That number — 37 percent mission capable — is not a rounding error or a statistical...
Poland’s M28 Skytruck Becomes a Drone Hunter
It began over Ukrainian fields — a propeller-driven trainer banking hard through low cloud, its pilot squinting through a rifle-mounted electro-optical sight as a cheap Iranian Shahed drone droned toward a power substation below. Ugly work. Effective work. By...
E-7 Wedgetail: Pentagon’s Complete U-Turn
Four months ago, the Pentagon tried to kill the E-7 Wedgetail. Now Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants every last one of them. That’s not a policy shift — that’s a full 180 at Mach 0.8. Hegseth has sent a budget amendment to the White House formally...
EASA Extends Middle East Flight Warnings Through Late May
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has once again extended its conflict zone warnings for airspace over and around the Middle East, pushing the advisory period through May 27, 2026. The decision, announced on May 12, reflects the persistent security risks...
526 Disruptions in One Day: Summer Air Travel Chaos Begins
Summer hasn’t officially started, but the chaos arrived early. On May 12, 2026, a cascade of delays, cancellations, and ground stops swept across American airports like a storm front — which, in many cases, it literally was. Phoenix Sky Harbor International...
Seven Minutes, JFK to Manhattan: Joby’s Air Taxi Flies NYC
On a clear Sunday morning in late April, a small white aircraft with six tilting propellers lifted off from John F. Kennedy International Airport and headed northwest toward the gleaming towers of Midtown Manhattan. Seven minutes later, it touched down at the East...
Japan Sinks WWII Warship with Anti-Ship Missiles
In a moment laden with historical irony and strategic significance, Japanese troops fired two Type-88 surface-to-ship missiles from the shores of the Philippines on May 5, 2026, sinking BRP Quezon (PS-70), an 82-year-old decommissioned Philippine Navy corvette that...
F-22 Raptors Surge to Okinawa
The United States has moved additional F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to Kadena Air Base on the Japanese island of Okinawa, reinforcing America’s most forward-deployed air superiority capability in the Pacific at a moment of heightened tension over Taiwan and the...
Russia to Produce 7 Million FPV Drones in 2026
The skies over Ukraine have become the world’s most consequential laboratory for unmanned warfare, and the numbers emerging from both sides of the conflict are staggering. A senior Ukrainian military commander has issued a stark warning: Russia is scaling its...
Ukraine’s Drone Blitz Cuts Russian Oil to 16-Year Low
In April 2026, Ukraine launched 21 separate strikes against Russian oil refineries and fuel terminals — the highest monthly total since December and a campaign that has slashed Russian crude oil processing capacity to its lowest level in more than 16 years. The...
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