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India has chosen the Rafale. Again. But this time, the numbers are staggering: 114 aircraft, $39 billion, and a production line in Nagpur that will make India one of the largest Rafale operators on Earth. The Defence Acquisition Council approved the purchase in...
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The AGM-86B entered service in 1982. Ronald Reagan was president. The Space Shuttle had flown exactly three times. Top Gun was four years from release. And the Air Force fully expected this nuclear cruise missile to be retired within two decades. It is 2026, and the...
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A small circular disc on the dorsal spine of an F-15E Strike Eagle, just aft of the speed brake — that is the most significant piece of new hardware photographed on an American combat aircraft in months. The disc is a Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna, or CRPA, and...
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On the first of April — no joke intended — the United Kingdom, Japan, and Italy signed the most significant European-Asian defence contract in a generation. The Global Combat Air Programme, or GCAP, awarded £686 million to Edgewing, the newly created trinational...
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For the first time, the U.S. Air Force is asking Congress for money to actually buy — not just develop — autonomous combat drones designed to fly alongside human pilots. The number: $996.5 million. The year: fiscal 2027. The programme: Collaborative Combat Aircraft,...
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Somewhere in the eastern Atlantic, the USS George H.W. Bush is making 30 knots toward the Mediterranean. Behind her steam three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and a Ticonderoga-class cruiser. Ahead of her, already on station in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf, sit the...
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The number is 850. That’s how many Tomahawk cruise missiles the United States has fired at Iran in roughly thirty days of war. Each one costs about $2 million. Each one is irreplaceable in the short term. And the Pentagon is running out. The U.S. military...
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The photographs are jarring. A KC-135R Stratotanker — the aircraft that keeps every American warplane in the sky — sits on the apron at RAF Mildenhall, England, covered nose to tail in metal patches. Dozens of them. Each one marks a shrapnel hole punched by an Iranian...
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For twenty-one hours, diplomats talked. Vice President JD Vance sat across from Iranian and Pakistani negotiators in Islamabad, working through the night on what was supposed to be a path out of the war. By Sunday morning, the path was gone. The sticking point —...
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On April 2, 2026, test pilot Paul Stone strapped into the cockpit of an aircraft that took off like a helicopter, tilted forward, and flew away like a plane. He was at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire, England. The aircraft was Vertical Aerospace’s full-scale...
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At 11:30 on the night of April 8, 2026, the pilots of Frontier Flight 3216 were taxiing their Airbus A321neo toward the runway at Los Angeles International Airport when two ground trucks cut directly across their path. The captain slammed on the brakes. The 224 people...
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Seventy-five hours. More than three days. That is how long the K1000ULE unmanned aircraft can stay airborne on a single mission — circling, watching, and relaying intelligence without landing. On April 7, 2026, U.S. Air Forces Central Command awarded Kraus Hamdani...
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