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The V-22 Osprey was, for two decades, the boldest aircraft in the U.S. inventory. A tiltrotor that takes off like a helicopter and flies like a turboprop — faster than any helicopter, more flexible than any C-130. It also killed dozens of Marines in its...
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The U.S. Marine Corps just made a quiet but significant decision. For its Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle – Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) programme — the resupply helicopter that will fly Marines and pallets to forward island positions in a Pacific war...
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The C-130 Hercules is the most-flown military airlifter on earth. Lockheed has built more than 2,700 of them since 1956. They have dropped paratroopers into Panama, hauled refugees out of Kabul, gun-shipped over Vietnam, and refuelled half the planet’s special...
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For nearly twenty years, U.S. Special Operations Command has had a quiet, classified advantage. When the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment — the Night Stalkers — takes an MH-47G Chinook into bad terrain at 30 metres above ground, in zero...
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Lockheed Martin has delivered more than 1,200 F-35s. The Pentagon’s 2025 Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) report, published this spring, has now declared the most important upgrade to that fleet — Technology Refresh 3 — operationally...
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The first three F-35As in Polish service — Poland calls them Husarz, the Hussar, after the winged cavalry that once broke Ottoman charges — touched down at Łask Air Base on 22 May 2026. They did so deep in central Poland, on the same flight line that has...
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In the 1960s, American spy satellites scanning the Caspian Sea brought back pictures of something that should not have existed: a 92-metre, jet-powered hybrid of ship and aircraft, skimming the water at 500 km/h. The CIA called it the Caspian Sea Monster. The Soviets...
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The Davis-Monthan boneyard at Tucson, Arizona is the largest aircraft graveyard in the world. Four thousand-plus airframes from every era of postwar American military aviation sit baking in the desert sun under thick layers of preservative spraylat, waiting for the...
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On 22 May 2026, the first Boeing E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft landed at RAF Lossiemouth in northern Scotland. It is the first time the type has touched down at its operational home base. The RAF, after five years without a credible AEW...
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The A-10 Thunderbolt II — the Warthog, the Hog, the GAU-8 with wings — has been on death row at the Pentagon for a decade. The official retirement plan has called for the type to be fully phased out by 2028. The Air Force has gone on record dozens of times saying the...
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An airborne early warning aircraft is not, technically, a stealth platform. It is the opposite of stealth. The whole point of an AEW airframe is that it is up there, loud in the radio spectrum, broadcasting a powerful surveillance radar so it can see incoming threats...
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Qatar Airways finished its 2025/26 financial year with a net profit of US$1.94 billion. It is the highest annual profit in the airline’s history. The carrier moved 41.8 million passengers, 1.43 million tons of cargo, and a 12% share of the entire global air...
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