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After 22 years, two of European aviation’s most recognisable blue tail-fins may be about to disappear from the cover of their own annual report. Air France-KLM Group — the holding company born in 2004 from the merger of France’s flag carrier and the...
Military Aviation, News
Helicopters do something fixed-wing aircraft cannot. They land on rooftops, in jungles, on the back of a destroyer, on a forest road, on a Pacific atoll smaller than a basketball court. The price they pay is speed. A helicopter that cruises at 150 knots is unusual....
Military Aviation, News
Building a sixth-generation fighter is, in many ways, an engine problem dressed up in a stealthy airframe. The F-47 — Boeing’s Next Generation Air Dominance fighter, now in early manufacturing — needs an engine that does three things at once: it has to produce...
Military Aviation, News
They had been in the raft for five hours when the helicopter found them. Eleven Bahamians, mostly families, drifting in the Atlantic somewhere off the coast of central Florida. The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air they had boarded that morning at Marsh Harbor in the...
Military Aviation, News
For most of the year, the Trump administration’s Golden Dome — the most ambitious continental missile defence project since SDI — has run on a single sticker price: $185 billion. That number was the Pentagon’s. The Congressional Budget Office took a look...
Military Aviation, News
The number is 10,000. Pentagon procurement officers, briefing reporters at the Department of War on 13 May 2026, used that number with the casual fluency of a Costco executive describing a quarterly shipment. Ten thousand low-cost cruise missiles in three years, plus...
Military Aviation, News
For 44 years, the radar discs that watched the skies above Europe wore American badges. Fourteen NATO Boeing E-3A Sentries, based at Geilenkirchen in Germany, flew under the NATO flag with mixed crews drawn from 17 participating nations — and as many as 19...
Military Aviation, News
For a country that operates the most expensive combat aircraft ever built, Britain has spent the last decade flying it with surprisingly few things to drop. The Royal Air Force’s F-35B Lightning fleet — designed around a 25-year roadmap of cutting-edge British...
Military Aviation, News
For more than a decade, the KC-46 Pegasus has been the most expensive tanker the U.S. Air Force can’t quite use. Boeing has delivered roughly 90 of them. They cost the taxpayer about $200 million apiece. They are supposed to be the spine of American long-range...
Military Aviation, News
For most of the last twenty years, the MQ-9 Reaper was the single most-flown weapon in the U.S. Air Force inventory. From Afghanistan to Yemen, from Niger to Syria, the Reaper turned every minor military problem into a 24-hour-orbit problem solved by a Hellfire. Then...
Military Aviation, News
For roughly a decade, the U.S. Army has been quietly anxious about one math problem it could not solve: a Tomahawk cruise missile costs about $2 million a copy, the Pentagon’s stockpile keeps shrinking after every Middle East flare-up, and the Indo-Pacific...
Military Aviation, News
The shepherd noticed the helicopters first. In a stretch of the western Iraqi desert so empty that locals call it “the silence” — 180 kilometres southwest of Najaf, where the dunes give way to dry lake beds and not much else — he heard rotor blades where...
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