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The U.S. Space Force has just added four billion dollars to a contract called Andromeda. Most readers will, understandably, have never heard of Andromeda. That is, in some sense, the point. Andromeda is the cover name for what amounts to America’s...
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Most aviation news arrives with a roar. This one arrives with a quiet announcement that, somewhere over the cold North Atlantic, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon is now flying in a configuration that can probably hear a Russian submarine before the submarine knows it is...
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The F-35 Lightning II is, by some margin, the most networked combat aircraft ever built. A single jet exchanges several gigabytes of data per sortie with other F-35s, with E-3 and E-7 controllers, with ground stations, and — through the Multifunction Advanced Data...
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Sikorsky has just turned the world’s most-built combat helicopter into a gunship. The Connecticut-based Lockheed Martin subsidiary has unveiled what it is calling the Armed Black Hawk — a clean-sheet conversion kit that bolts external pylons, sensor turrets, and...
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The People’s Liberation Army Navy is on the verge of doing something the U.S. Navy has been trying — and quietly failing — to do for fifteen years: operate a stealth, jet-powered, flying-wing combat drone from the deck of an amphibious assault ship. Fresh...
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For the entire history of fifth-generation fighters, you have had exactly one option as a foreign customer: the Lockheed Martin F-35. Russia’s Su-57 has been on the market in theory for years, but in practice has produced exactly zero export deliveries. Everyone...
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Once a B-1B Lancer goes to the boneyard, it stays in the boneyard. That has been the rule for a quarter of a century. Until last week. The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that a single B-1B has been pulled out of long-term storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in...
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The U.S. Air Force has just done something it almost never does: it has put F-22 Raptors on a runway in Japan. A package of Raptors landed at Kadena Air Base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa earlier this week, the most senior officials at Pacific Air Forces...
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The U.S. Navy has used a fighter jet to disable an oil tanker. Read that sentence again, because it is the kind of thing that simply does not happen in normal years. On 6 May 2026, an F/A-18E Super Hornet, operating from a U.S. Navy carrier in the Gulf of Oman, lined...
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If you happened to be standing on a desert ridge near Edwards Air Force Base in early May, you might have heard nothing at all. Which is precisely the point. The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency — better known as DARPA, the agency that funds the kind of...
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The Tomcat may fly again. Twenty years after the U.S. Navy retired its last F-14D and sent the survivors to museums, a bipartisan bill working its way through Congress would pull three of those airframes back out — and put one of them back into the sky. It is being...
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A Russian Tu-95MS Bear strategic bomber has been photographed carrying a Kh-101 air-launched cruise missile over the Barents and Norwegian Seas — the second time in twelve months that Moscow has publicly flaunted its premier stand-off weapon on a long-range patrol...
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