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After more than six decades of continuous service, the venerable B-52 Stratofortress is about to receive the most comprehensive upgrade in its storied history. On May 4, 2026, the Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP) passed its Critical Design Review — a...
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Turkish defence giant Baykar has secured the first export contract for its revolutionary Bayraktar Kızılelma unmanned combat aircraft, signing a landmark deal with Indonesia at the SAHA 2026 defence exhibition on May 6, 2026. The agreement covers an initial...
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The Netherlands has become the first European nation to formally invest in the United States Air Force’s revolutionary Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) programme, signing an agreement on April 23, 2026, to fund the production of two CCA prototypes that will...
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Satellite imagery dated April 25, 2026, has revealed the presence of an Iranian Air Force C-130 transport aircraft parked at Nur Khan Airbase in Rawalpindi, Pakistan — a discovery that has sent shockwaves through diplomatic corridors in Washington and raised...
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It lasted seventy-two hours. The May 9–11 ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine — agreed for Moscow’s Victory Day parade and a small prisoner-of-war exchange — expired at midnight on Monday. By Tuesday morning, Volodymyr Zelensky was counting the drones. Two...
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The NTSB has issued its final report on the fatal collision between a CRJ-900 regional jet and an airport fire truck at LaGuardia. The findings are blunt: the truck driver missed multiple direct warnings — visual, audible, and procedural — and crossed an active runway...
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The crash that killed three UPS crew members at Louisville’s Worldport hub in 2024 has just become a multi-defendant federal lawsuit. New filings name UPS, Boeing, the late captain’s estate, and several other parties — and the language in the complaint...
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The Airbus A220 has been the most underestimated commercial airliner of the past decade — a Canadian-designed jet (originally the Bombardier C Series) that quietly piled up loyal customers and stellar dispatch reliability while the headlines went to bigger aircraft....
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Lufthansa Group ended its long widebody Airbus-only streak this week with a single, perfectly-balanced announcement: 10 Airbus A350-900s and 10 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. Same order. Same press release. Same Monday morning. It is one of the most diplomatically...
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Homestead Air Reserve Base sits 30 miles south of Miami. It survived Hurricane Andrew in 1992 by losing nearly every building it had. It has spent the three decades since flying F-16s on a quiet but consequential mission: counter-drug intercepts over the Caribbean and...
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The Pentagon has finally put a date on the test that proves America can shoot down a hypersonic missile. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) confirmed last week that a counter-hypersonic live-fire intercept test is now scheduled for fiscal year 2027 — Mach 5 chasing Mach...
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A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II transmitted an emergency 7700 code on its transponder while flying over the Gulf of Oman last week. The aircraft was at 10,500 feet over open water — well below normal F-35 cruising altitude — when it began squawking the universal...
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