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It took losing an E-3 Sentry over Iran 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 request —...
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The numbers are almost too clean to be believable. In Chinese military exercises pitting a lone J-20 stealth fighter against simulated adversaries, 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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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 picked up activity at Russian strategic launch sites with only a few hours of advance...
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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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