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The T-45 Goshawk has been teaching Navy and Marine Corps pilots how to fly jets since 1991. Now, after more than three decades of carrier touch-and-goes, hard landings, and thousands of freshly winged aviators, the little British-designed trainer is getting a...
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At the Future Investment Priority Summit in Miami on March 28, Donald Trump made it official: “For the very first time, we agreed to sell Saudi Arabia perhaps the most capable fighter jet ever built, the F-35.” With that sentence, the stealth monopoly in...
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In Kharkiv, a factory that makes industrial equipment now also shoots down Russian drones. On March 30, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced that a company called Carmine Sky had successfully downed Shahed and Zala drones using Sky Sentinel — an AI-powered...
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For years it existed only in grainy satellite photos and rumors on Chinese military forums. Then, in September 2025, China rolled it out at a Victory Day parade in Beijing. Now, for the first time, Japan has intercepted one in the wild — and the implications stretch...
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A nighttime photograph released by the Israeli Air Force on March 29 shows a pair of F-16I Sufas taxiing for another strike mission against Iran. The jets are loaded heavy. But the weapons hanging under their wings aren’t the precision-guided JDAMs or Rampage...
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A standard A-10 gun run lasts two to three seconds. Finger on the trigger, a controlled burst of 30mm depleted uranium rounds, then pull off target. That’s what pilots train for. That’s what the manual says. So when video surfaced from Iraq showing...
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Flight trackers lit up over the weekend as a formation of A-10C Thunderbolt IIs — callsign TABOR 71 — crossed the Atlantic toward RAF Lakenheath in England. Behind them, three KC-135 Stratotankers from RAF Mildenhall held station, feeding fuel to the tank-killers on...
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It looks like a shipping container. The kind you see stacked on cargo ships, loaded onto flatbed trucks, sitting in industrial lots from Rotterdam to Riyadh. Ten feet long, standard Tricon ISO spec, unremarkable in every visible way. Inside it is a Hellfire missile...
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At 12:50 PM on March 29, four F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters touched down at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan. They taxied to the ramp, engines winding down, canopies opening in the cold northern air. It looked routine. It was anything...
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The first 100 hours of Operation Epic Fury cost approximately $3.7 billion — roughly $891 million per day. A staggering share of that went to a single, maddening problem: shooting down cheap Iranian drones with some of the most expensive aircraft on Earth. The math is...
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The drone that killed a $21 million helicopter cost less than a decent pair of headphones. On March 23, an Iran-backed militia launched a first-person-view drone at Victory Base Complex near Baghdad International Airport. The target was an HH-60M Black Hawk — a...
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On March 25, a Gripen E fighter jet — designation F-39E, serial FAB 4109 — rolled out of Embraer’s facility in Gavião Peixoto, São Paulo state. It looks identical to every other Gripen E. But this one was built in Brazil, not Sweden. And that changes everything....
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