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It was supposed to be Europe’s answer to the F-35. A continental sixth-generation fighter, jointly built by France, Germany and Spain, flanked by drone wingmen and tied together by a “combat cloud” stretching from Brest to Bavaria. Six years and...
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For 75 years, Italy had its own flag carrier. From the founding of Alitalia in 1946 to its 2021 liquidation, the airline was a national institution — and, for the last three decades of its life, a national embarrassment. Repeated state bailouts, repeated insolvencies,...
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Sun Country Airlines never expected to become an airline-industry case study. Founded in 1982 by laid-off Braniff pilots, it spent thirty years quietly running ski charters out of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Las Vegas package tours, and the occasional NCAA bowl-game ferry...
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Most African airlines have spent the last decade trying to survive. Ethiopian Airlines has spent the last decade trying to outgrow every other airline on its continent — and then a few off it. The Addis Ababa-based carrier flies more international passengers than any...
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The United States Marine Corps has flown the F/A-18 Hornet since 1983. Every Marine fighter pilot of the last four decades trained on it. The Corps used it over Iraq, over Afghanistan, over the Balkans. It flew from U.S. Navy supercarriers in regular squadron...
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On 15 May 2026 the U.S. Navy quietly awarded Lockheed Martin one of the largest single-line modernisation contracts in the entire F-35 programme: $991 million for 432 electronic warfare modification kits, distributed across the U.S. Air Force, Marines, Navy, and...
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In May 2026, an unmarked Pakistan Air Force C-130J landed in Dhaka and unloaded a single very heavy crate. Inside was a fully operational combat simulator for the JF-17 Thunder Block III — the latest variant of Pakistan’s Chinese-built lightweight fighter. The...
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For the better part of a quarter-century, Lockheed Martin has held a hard line on one engineering principle of the F-35 Lightning II: no external fuel tanks. The aircraft was designed to be stealthy, and stealth means an unbroken radar cross-section. The moment you...
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For more than five years, the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile has been one of the most carefully guarded weapons programmes inside the United States Department of Defense. There were no public photographs. No leaks. No images on any test range. The Pentagon...
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For 60 years, the Argentine Air Force flew the A-4 Skyhawk. The compact little Douglas attack jet — designed in California in 1952 for the United States Navy — became a Latin American workhorse, a Falklands warrior, and one of the last vintage combat aircraft in...
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The dream of an all-British advanced jet trainer is over. On Friday 15 May, two administrators from Buchler Phillips walked into Aeralis Limited and began dismantling the company. Around 30 staff lost their jobs. With them went six years of carefully assembled...
Military Aviation, News
On 16 May 2026 a single photograph surfaced on the Telegram channel FighterBomber, the unofficial-but-well-sourced mouthpiece of Russia’s aerospace forces. It showed a familiar planform — the flat upper deck, the twin canted tails, the engine spacing of Sukhoi’s...
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