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A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet just did something that sounds like it belongs in a video game — and the Pentagon released video to prove it. On May 8, 2026, a Super Hornet from USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) dropped precision-guided munitions straight down the...
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There is a shipping container somewhere in the world right now that does not look like much. Steel box. Corner castings. Maybe a dent or two from a rough crossing. You have seen a million of them stacked at ports, rolling down highways on flatbeds, rusting in fields....
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There is something quietly momentous about a small nation on the North Sea becoming the first foreign partner in what may prove to be the most consequential transformation in air power since the jet age. On 23 April 2026, the United States Air Force and the...
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The U.S. Air Force has officially launched the paperwork to start looking for something — anything — to replace the B-52 Stratofortress. The BUFF has been flying since 1952, and the Air Force’s plan is apparently to keep flying it until the airframes are old...
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The morning of May 6, 2026, was clear over the Culili Point sand dunes south of Laoag. A six-wheeled launcher — Japanese, bearing the roundel of the Ground Self-Defense Force — sat squat in the sand, its six canisters pointed west toward open water. At 10:30 a.m., two...
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On 7 May 2026, South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) issued a declaration that aviation analysts had been watching for three years: the KF-21 Boramae is fully combat suitable. Three years of exhaustive testing. Six prototype airframes....
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On the morning of 5 May 2026, in a vast exhibition hall on the European shore of Istanbul, something quietly extraordinary happened. Turkey’s Ministry of National Defence unveiled — with little prior warning to the international press — a full-scale mockup of...
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There is a sound that no aviation fan forgets. A rising howl of twin Pratt & Whitney TF30s at full afterburner, the variable-geometry wings sweeping back as the jet accelerates from a carrier deck at a rate that seems almost physically offensive — as if physics...
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Rheinmetall’s stock peaked at €1,930 in March 2025. It is trading today at €1,180 — a 39 percent fall in fourteen months. BAE Systems is down 22 percent over the same period. Saab is down 18 percent. Leonardo is down 14 percent. Thales is flat. This is happening...
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The Lufthansa Crane has been the airline’s mascot since 1918, longer than the airline has been called Lufthansa. The bird first appeared on Deutsche Luft-Reederei aircraft when commercial aviation was only weeks old. It has been redrawn three times in the...
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Atlas Air is the world’s largest operator of Boeing 747 freighters. The carrier flies more 747-8Fs and 747-400s than any other airline on Earth. The 747 is, in many ways, the brand. So when Atlas walks into Toulouse and signs a $7-billion order for 20 firm and...
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The aircraft is the size of a Cessna 172 but flies itself. There is no pilot. There is no cockpit. There is no second seat for an emergency manual override. Pyka’s Pelican Cargo just took off, flew a 200-kilometre route over central California, and landed itself...
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