$2.9 Billion More: The Compass Call Fleet Is About to Triple
The U.S. Air Force has very few weapons that nobody else can match. The EA-37B Compass Call is one of them — a Gulfstream business jet stuffed with classified electronic-attack hardware that can shut down enemy radios, command nets, GPS, and air-defence radars across...
Hellfires Were So Last Year: Now the Reaper Carries Guided Rockets
The MQ-9 Reaper is famous for one thing: putting a Hellfire missile through a window from 30,000 feet. But Hellfires cost about ,000 each, and the Air Force has burned through them at a rate the budget can no longer sustain. Enter the APKWS — a $20,000 laser-guided...
Russia’s Victory Day Flyover Was CGI
The 9 May Victory Day Parade is Vladimir Putin’s annual showpiece — the moment when Russia’s military prowess is paraded through Red Square and broadcast to the nation. Tanks. Missiles. Soldiers in step. And, traditionally, a thundering flyover of Russian...
First HARM Kill Mark: USAF F-16 Wears Its First Anti-Radar Score
Kill marks on a fighter are not just paint. They are a public statement — the Air Force confirming that this airframe, with this pilot, killed that target. New images released this week of a U.S. Air Force F-16 show something nobody has seen on a USAF Viper in...
F/A-XX Gets Promoted: Pentagon Takes Direct Command of Navy’s Stealth Jet
The Pentagon is not letting another sixth-generation fighter slip the way the F-35 did. In a quiet but significant move on May 7, 2026, the Defense Department’s top acquisition official took direct oversight of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX next-generation...
Belgium Will Send Its Entire F-16 Fleet to Ukraine — 53 Jets
Belgium is preparing to do something no NATO country has ever done before: hand over its entire fighter fleet to a country at war. According to a report in Belgian weekly Le Vif, Defence Minister Theo Francken wants to deliver all 53 of the Belgian Air...
New ‘Bridge’ Air Force One Finishes Testing, Summer Debut
Somewhere in Waco, Texas, a Boeing 747 that used to carry Qatari royalty is being dressed up in red, white, and blue. By this summer, it’ll be calling itself Air Force One. The Air Force announced on May 1 that the “Bridge” VC-25B has completed its...
Qatar Airways Resumes Iraq Flights After 40-Day War Closure
On the morning of May 10, 2026, a Qatar Airways aircraft pushed back from Hamad International Airport and pointed its nose toward Baghdad. For forty days, Iraq’s airspace had been sealed shut — a casualty of the regional war. The engines spooling up that morning...
Embraer Just Had Its Best Quarter Ever — $1.4 Billion in Q1
Brazil doesn’t always get credit for aerospace excellence. But on May 8, 2026, Embraer — headquartered in Sao Jose dos Campos — posted the best first quarter in its history. Revenue: $1.4 billion. Growth: 31% year-on-year. Operating profit: up 52%. Backlog:...
T-7A Red Hawk Cleared for Production at Last
It took a fixed-price contract, $1.8 billion in losses, two years of schedule slippage, a software fix for the fly-by-wire system, a redesigned ejection seat sequence, and more than a few tense program reviews — but Boeing’s T-7A Red Hawk is finally going to be...
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