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South Korea has just announced one of the most consequential naval decisions of the decade. Seoul will build its own nuclear-powered submarines. The programme, codenamed Jang Bogo N, joins South Korea to a club of just seven nuclear-sub nations — China, France, India,...
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For decades, the small, sharp F-5N Tiger II has played the bad guy at the US Navy’s adversary squadrons. Painted in Russian and Chinese splinter schemes, the little 1960s-vintage fighter has been the loyal MiG stand-in for thousands of Topgun students. That era...
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For the first time in its history, the Federal Aviation Administration is letting US taxpayers watch one of its biggest projects unfold in real time. The agency just launched a public dashboard tracking the $12.5 billion Modern Skies air-traffic-control modernisation...
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The Israeli Air Force has a new tanker — and a new name on its tail. The first KC-46A “Gideon” arrived at Nevatim Air Base on 27 May, the first of six Boeing tankers Israel has ordered at the height of the F-35I fleet expansion. After years of patching...
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Iran has quietly created a new government agency for one purpose: to tax every ship that crosses the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran calls them “navigational service fees.” Five Gulf states call them illegal tolls. Either way, the world’s most important...
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The MQ-28 Ghost Bat just made its US debut — not in a hangar, not at an airshow, but in the air. Boeing confirmed on 27 May 2026 that its Australian-built autonomous combat drone has completed three operational flights over the Point Mugu Sea Range at US Naval Base...
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Uppsala, 28 May 2026. Volodymyr Zelensky walked onto the apron at Uppsala air base under a grey Swedish sky, shook hands with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, and announced what is — by any measure — the largest Western fighter package Ukraine has ever secured. The...
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VietJet Air just dropped a new line on the world’s long-haul map — and it runs straight from Hanoi to Prague. Starting 10 October 2026, the Vietnamese low-cost carrier will fly an Airbus A330 twice a week between Vietnam’s capital and the Czech Republic,...
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The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is not the aircraft you would design for the North Atlantic. It is single-aisle, range-limited, and built around a route map that runs Seattle, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix. On 28 May 2026, Alaska Airlines is flying one to Reykjavik anyway —...
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The Gulf monarchies watched the 40-day air war over Iran like a long, expensive product demo. The Patriot batteries that defended Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE had a good war by any measure. They also went through interceptor inventory faster than anyone expected,...
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The pilgrims have been arriving in Santiago de Compostela on foot for 1,200 years. On 27 May 2026, the first ones started arriving by Boeing 737 MAX 8 — direct from Newark, in about seven hours, no European hub in between. United Airlines is now the first US carrier...
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The number is 47. That is how many 737 MAX airliners Boeing’s Renton, Washington factory is now permitted to roll off its assembly lines each month — a production rate the company has not been allowed to touch since the door plug blew out of Alaska Airlines...
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