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The most important procurement decision in American naval aviation this decade will be made in August. Two companies — Boeing and Northrop Grumman — are competing for the F/A-XX contract, the programme to build the United States Navy’s sixth-generation...
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There are more than 1,800 decommissioned oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Most of them are rusting. Some are slowly being dismantled. A few are being turned into artificial reefs. And now the United States Air Force wants to turn some of them into rocket landing...
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It looks like a shipping container. The kind you see stacked on cargo ships, sitting in port yards, or riding the back of a flatbed truck. Twenty feet long, corrugated steel, anonymous. You could drive past a thousand of them without a second glance. Open the doors,...
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The oldest aircraft carrier in the United States Navy is now the most politically charged vessel in the Western Hemisphere. USS Nimitz (CVN-68), with Carrier Air Wing 17 and the guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley in company, entered the Caribbean Sea in late May...
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Hundreds of metal spheres fall from the sky over the village of Tadjmart in northern Mali on the night of 16–17 May. They are roughly the size of an orange. When they hit the ground, they explode. One child is killed. Three women are injured. In the morning, villagers...
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Midnight. The radar screens at Poland’s Operational Command light up like a switchboard. Across the border in Ukraine, the sky fills with roughly 600 Russian drones and 90 missiles — cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, every category of aerial threat Moscow can...
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The GPS display goes blank. Smartphones lose their signal. Laptops cannot reach the internet. For three hours, the Royal Air Force Dassault Falcon 900LX carrying British Defence Secretary John Healey flies through electronic darkness over the Baltic Sea — and the...
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Everyone making eVTOLs — Joby, Archer, Lilium’s ghost, Volocopter’s ghost, Eve, Vertical Aerospace — faces the same problem nobody wants to talk about: even if you successfully build the aircraft, where, exactly, does it land in a city? The...
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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is flying its most ambitious ultra-long-haul schedule in years: ten routes from Amsterdam Schiphol with block times of around 14 hours or more in the June 2026 to March 2027 season. The longest of them — Manila back to Amsterdam via...
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On the morning of 8 May 2026, a Garuda Indonesia A330-900neo — registration PK-GHI — lifted out of Jeddah on flight GA4208 to Medan, Indonesia, carrying Hajj pilgrims home. The routing crosses the Arabian Sea and southern India before dropping southeast...
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A loud bang, visible flashes from the left wing, and then the cabin went black. Passengers on Delta flight DL286 from New York JFK to Milan later described the moments that followed as the worst of their lives — an Airbus A330 over France with a failing engine...
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Embraer has spent the past five years quietly assembling the most surprising tactical-airlifter sales story of the decade. The Brazilian KC-390 Millennium has outsold every clean-sheet competitor in its weight class, picked up eight European air forces in succession,...
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