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Berlin is arming its F-35s with Scandinavian precision. On May 18, 2026, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace announced a contract worth approximately NOK 3.5 billion — some $380 million — for a second tranche of Joint Strike Missiles destined for Germany’s future...
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The Air Force has finally given Boeing the green light to start building T-7A Red Hawks in earnest. On April 23, 2026, the service approved Milestone C — the gate that authorizes low-rate initial production — and awarded Boeing a $219 million contract for the first 14...
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GE Aerospace has been awarded a contract for the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the GE426 turbofan engine, purpose-built for the U.S. Air Force’s medium-thrust Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP). The contract, announced May 19, marks a decisive step in...
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In late April 2026, a white, six-rotor aircraft lifted off from John F. Kennedy International Airport, tilted its propellers forward, and landed at the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan seven minutes later. No jet fuel. No noise complaints. No two-hour...
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They left on a Tuesday in late June, 4,500 sailors waving from the flight deck as the Virginia coastline shrank behind them. It was supposed to be a routine deployment to Europe — six months, maybe seven, the kind of schedule Navy families have learned to set their...
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There is a number that keeps the people who manage America’s drone fleet awake at night, and that number is 189. That is the minimum number of MQ-9 Reapers the Air Force says it needs to sustain its worldwide intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and...
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The entire U.S. Air Force T-38 Talon fleet has been grounded. Every single one of the venerable white-and-blue trainers — the jet that has taught virtually every American fighter pilot since the Kennedy administration how to fly fast — is sitting silently on ramps...
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On May 14, Israel’s Ministry of Defense signed a $34 million contract with Cyclone, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, to develop and integrate external fuel tanks for the F-35I Adir. It is a deal born not of peacetime planning but of hard operational lessons —...
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The B-1B Lancer is getting the biggest weapons upgrade in its operational history. The U.S. Air Force’s Load Adaptable Modular (LAM) pylon program will restore six dormant external hardpoints on the bomber, boosting its total precision weapons capacity by...
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Somewhere on a taxiway at a Northrop Grumman test facility, something remarkable happened last week — and nobody was in the cockpit. The YFQ-48A Talon Blue, Northrop Grumman’s contender for the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program,...
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The Navy’s long wait for an autonomous flying gas station just ended. Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao confirmed during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on May 19 that the MQ-25 Stingray — Boeing’s uncrewed, carrier-based aerial refuelling...
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At Wallops Island, Virginia, on the evening of 27 February 2026, a Rocket Lab HASTE rocket lifted off from Pad 2 carrying a 3.5-metre Australian aircraft tucked inside its nose fairing. Six minutes later, somewhere above the Atlantic at 32 kilometres altitude, the...
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