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The world’s largest military airshow is dead for 2026. The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust Enterprises confirmed today that the Royal International Air Tattoo — the crown jewel of the global airshow calendar — will not take place this July. The reason: American...
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Over Edwards Air Force Base earlier this year, a modified F-16 received a simulated surface-to-air missile warning at high speed. The two human pilots in the cockpit did exactly nothing. They sat with their hands clear of the stick and watched as the aircraft snapped...
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For three years, Ukrainian Air Force Su-24 Fencers and Su-27 Flankers have been launching American-made GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs and JDAM-ER kits at Russian positions inside occupied Ukraine. Every one of those bombs comes with a U.S. export licence, a U.S. supply...
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For decades, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International has been the busiest airport in the world. Over 100 million passengers a year. The single most important screening checkpoint in the United States. And throughout the recent government shutdown, more than a third...
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The Boeing 777-9 was supposed to be the airliner that finally cemented Boeing’s widebody recovery after the 787 debacle and the 737 MAX disaster. It was going to be the world’s largest twin-engined jet, the most efficient on a per-seat basis, the only credible direct...
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Russia held a nuclear weapons exercise this week. The Pentagon did not see it coming. The British Ministry of Defence did not see it coming. NATO indications and warning channels reportedly picked up activity at Russian strategic launch sites only shortly before the...
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The Eurofighter Typhoon is old enough to vote in most European elections. Conceived in 1983, first flown in 1994, in service since 2003 — by every conventional metric it is a fourth-generation aircraft that should already be giving way to fifth. Instead, on 20 May...
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Every Patriot launch costs the U.S. Army about $4 million. Every Iranian Shahed drone costs about $20,000 to build and a few thousand more to ship. The math has been broken for years. The Iranian and Houthi campaigns of 2024-2026 broke it in public, on television,...
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The U.S. Navy has been talking about putting lasers on warships since the Reagan administration. For most of those forty years it was vapourware — promising prototypes, expensive demonstrators, headlines that never quite turned into deployed systems. That changed...
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Nobody saw it coming. The Royal Swedish Navy has spent forty years building its surface fleet around shallow-draft, locally-built corvettes optimised for Baltic archipelago warfare — the legendary Visby class, the new Lulea concept, decades of indigenous Saab-Kockums...
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The Navy SEAL underwater raid has not fundamentally changed in fifty years. Eight operators in a six-metre swimmer delivery vehicle, breathing through rebreathers, no propeller noise above the threshold, no radio emissions, no daylight. They infiltrate, do the job,...
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Most Americans have never heard of it. That is the point. The C-146A Wolfhound — a militarised Dornier 328 in unmarked colour schemes — is the quietest workhorse in the entire U.S. military aviation inventory. On any given day, a handful of Wolfhounds are dropping...
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