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For a week, the story was almost cute. Russia rolls out a two-seat Su-57. Western analysts squint at the grainy photos, nod knowingly, and file it under trainer variant — probably for export to India. The kind of footnote that gets one tweet and dies. Then on 25 May...
Military Aviation, News
If you want to know what a country is really planning, don’t read the press releases. Look at the parking lots. That’s been the quiet refrain among open-source defence analysts for two years now, as a small army of nerds armed with commercial satellite...
Aviation World, News
For nearly a decade Boeing has been doing the corporate equivalent of staring at China through a chain-link fence. Tariffs, the 737 MAX grounding, the trade war, a pandemic, more tariffs — name a thing that could keep a US planemaker out of the world’s biggest...
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At precisely the moment Bucharest was hoping the war next door would stay next door, a Russian Geran-2 — the Tehran-designed Shahed-136 rebadged in Cyrillic — drifted some four minutes through Romanian airspace and detonated on the roof of an apartment block in...
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A startup with fewer employees than a regional Cracker Barrel just outran every other unmanned jet on the planet. On 26 May 2026, Hermeus’ Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 lit afterburner over New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range, punched through the sound barrier...
Military Aviation, News
Wall Street had a quiet revelation this week. On Thursday morning, drone stocks ripped higher across the board after a Wall Street Journal report revealed that the Trump administration is exploring direct equity investments in domestic drone manufacturers. The numbers...
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The House Armed Services Committee just dropped a quiet bombshell. The draft fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, released on 26 May, calls for repealing the laws that established two of the Space Force’s most aggressive and successful...
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The Air Force quietly scaled back its planned MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopter buy. Congress is just as quietly pushing back. Lawmakers have written language into the draft fiscal year 2027 defence bill adding four Grey Wolf helicopters on top of the four the Air Force...
Aviation World, News
One of the largest wooden structures in the world will not be repaired. The Port of Tillamook Bay Board of Commissioners in Oregon voted 4-1 this week against repairing the storm-damaged roof of Hangar B — a 1943 wartime Navy blimp hangar nearly 330 metres long, 90...
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The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment — the famous Night Stalkers — could one day give its MH-47G Chinooks a job they have never had before: aerial refuelling tanker. Comments by senior officials at this month’s SOF Week conference revealed that US Army...
Aviation World, News
For nearly fifty years it sat in someone’s storage closet — a small, wooden, surprisingly fragile model of an interstellar starship. This week, the Roddenberry Archive gave the public its first detailed look at the original 33-inch prototype of the USS...
Military Aviation, News
Europe’s flagship sixth-generation fighter project is falling apart in slow motion — and now Airbus is quietly reaching out to Sweden’s Saab. The conversations, first reported this week, would have been unthinkable five years ago. They are not unthinkable...
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