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For the second time in a matter of weeks, Boeing has been beaten by a Swede with a radar plank on its back. NATO reportedly settled on the Saab GlobalEye over the E-7 Wedgetail for its alliance-wide airborne early-warning replacement in late April. On 27 May, Prime...
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USS Gerald R. Ford carries two A1B nuclear reactors, generates an estimated 1,400 megawatts of thermal power, and routinely supplies more electricity than its own ship can spend. This summer the US Navy is going to plug that excess into the grid of an American shore...
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Fishing nets have been a feature of the Sea of Galilee since the time of the apostles. Now they are draped over Israeli Merkava tanks, Humvees and forward observation posts in southern Lebanon — and they are stopping Hezbollah FPV drones from finding the kill spot on...
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Two EA-18G Growlers collided mid-air over the Mountain Home airshow in May. A T-45 Goshawk went down in Mississippi last week. Two more Growlers had a near-miss the same weekend over the Pacific Northwest. An A-10 lost a wing strake. A KC-46 reported a critical...
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It looks like a motor glider. It practically is a motor glider. The DZYNE Technologies ULTRA — the Unmanned Long-endurance Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft — has long sailplane wings, a single turbocharged piston engine, no pilot, and the kind of slender white...
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Plane spotters at RAF Mildenhall pulled out their long lenses last week and got a picture nobody at Air Mobility Command was hoping to see twice. A US Air Force KC-135R Stratotanker, peppered with what aviation analysts identified as shrapnel impacts down the fuselage...
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Two Martin-Baker ejection seats fired into a Mississippi sky on the afternoon of 26 May 2026. The T-45C Goshawk they had just left came down on private farmland in Noxubee County, Mississippi, near Naval Air Station Meridian. Both crew members ejected safely and were...
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The phrase the Air Force uses is “speedline.” It is the polite way to say: this is taking too long, we are going to do it differently, in one building, faster than the regular depot pipeline can manage. On 26 May 2026, the service stood one up at Warner...
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The F-35 pilot never left the ground. He sat in a parked cockpit, tablet in hand, while a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger turned racetracks in the sky overhead. The connection between them was not a fibre cable, not a microwave dish, not even a direct datalink. It was a...
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The infrared image is grainy. Two delta-winged shapes flank a much larger silhouette, and a thin line connects them — a refueling hose, suspended somewhere over the East China Sea. It is May 25, 2026, and a Republic of China Air Force F-16 has just locked its Sniper...
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Australia has opened the Southern Hemisphere’s first deep maintenance facility for the Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, marking a significant expansion of the nation’s self-reliance in sustaining one of the Western world’s most...
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South Korea builds its own fighter jets. It builds its own tanks, its own artillery, its own warships. But it does not build its own jet engines. Every KF-21 Boramae that rolls off the line in Sacheon is powered by an American General Electric F414 — the same turbofan...
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