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The cope cage is a Russian invention. It started as a piece of welded mesh hammered onto the turret of a T-72 in Ukraine in 2022, a frantic improvisation to detonate Ukrainian top-attack munitions a half-metre above the armour rather than against it. Since then it has...
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For more than a decade, the UK’s F-35B Lightning II programme has been chasing a single technical milestone that politicians, MPs, and the Royal Air Force itself have all asked about repeatedly: when will the F-35B be able to actually fire a British weapon. The...
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On 12 February 2023, a week after a Chinese spy balloon had been shot down over the Atlantic, two days after an object had been downed over Alaska, and one day after a similar object had been destroyed over the Yukon, a third unidentified aerial phenomenon was tracked...
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The Turkish Aerospace Industries Hürjet has, until this month, been pitched to international customers as an advanced jet trainer — the natural successor to the BAE Hawk, the South Korean KAI T-50, the Italian M-346. A 100% Turkish-designed, supersonic, twin-seat...
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The Diamond Nine is to the British what the Blue Angels’ Delta is to the Americans: a closing formation so tight and so visually unforgettable that for almost sixty years it has been the single most iconic shape in the sky over Britain. Nine red BAE Hawk T1s in...
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Eve Air Mobility has cleared its most critical test milestone yet. The Embraer-backed eVTOL developer announced that its full-scale engineering prototype has completed the entire hover and low-speed flight test phase, delivering the high-fidelity aerodynamic and...
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Twelve billion dollars. Gone. The top ten eVTOL companies have collectively burned through $12 billion in investor capital — four times what was lost during the very light jet craze of the 2000s, and more than Boeing earned even in its most profitable year. Not one of...
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It took losing an E-3 Sentry to Iranian missiles to make the Pentagon do what it should have done years ago. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has submitted a budget amendment to the White House adding funding for the E-7A Wedgetail to the fiscal year 2027 budget...
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The numbers are almost too clean to be believable. In a Chinese computer simulation pitting a lone J-20 stealth fighter against a simulated F-22, the win rate sat at a dismal 10 per cent. Add AI-controlled drone wingmen to the same scenario, and the win rate climbed...
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The F-35 can’t deliver on time. The F-15EX production line was kneecapped by a strike. And the Air Force needs both — desperately. Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina is pushing an amendment into the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that would authorise...
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The Pentagon’s vision of autonomous drone swarms just got real software. Shield AI — the San Diego company that built Hivemind, the only AI pilot to fly full-sized aircraft without GPS, communications, or a human operator — has been selected to integrate its...
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A C-17 Globemaster III pulls up to altitude, the ramp drops, and 45 cruise missiles slide out the back on pallets. That is no longer a concept video or a PowerPoint fantasy. The U.S. Air Force just turned it into a funded programme of record called Dragon Cart — and...
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