Military Aviation, News
For more than a decade, the Air Force tried to kill the Warthog. Every budget cycle, every force structure review, every strategic pivot toward great-power competition included the same recommendation: retire the A-10 Thunderbolt II. Congress said no. The Warthog flew...
Military Aviation, News
The Marines are in the sixth-generation fighter business. Quietly, without fanfare, the Marine Corps included a post-2041 sixth-generation combat aircraft in its 2026 Aviation Plan — the first time the service has formally acknowledged that it wants a successor to the...
Military Aviation, News
Northrop Grumman just showed the world what its next fighter jet might look like. On April 20, 2026, the company released a concept video of its F/A-XX proposal — the Navy’s next-generation carrier-based stealth fighter — and the internet immediately noticed...
Military Aviation, News
A CH-47F Chinook helicopter touched down on a runway with all four wheels in exactly the right place. Nobody in the cockpit moved a finger. Boeing announced in April 2026 that its Approach-to-X (A2X) software successfully guided an Army Chinook through a complete...
Military Aviation, News
They borrowed a thrust-vectoring nozzle from a 1990s experimental F-16 — retrieved, as one official put it, Indiana Jones style — bolted it onto a GE F110 turbofan, and pointed it straight down. That is how you make a fighter jet take off like a helicopter. Shield...
Military Aviation, News
The Army’s best missile is going to sea. On April 21, 2026, Lockheed Martin announced a $200 million contract to integrate the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement — the most advanced air defence interceptor in the U.S. arsenal — into the Navy’s Aegis Combat...
Military Aviation, News
The AGM-188A weighs 225 kilograms, flies at high subsonic speed, and strikes targets at ranges exceeding 930 kilometres. It costs a fraction of a Tomahawk. And the United States Air Force just launched it from an F-16 over the Gulf of Mexico. The weapon is called...
Military Aviation, News
Tianrui Liang had a problem. The 21-year-old aeronautical engineering student from the University of Glasgow had just spent his spring break photographing some of the most sensitive military aircraft in the United States — and now the FBI was waiting for him at JFK....
News
On April 19, 2026, the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance put a 5-inch shell through the engine room of an Iranian cargo ship. The vessel — M/V Touska — had been steaming at 17 knots toward Bandar Abbas, ignoring six hours of warnings from the U.S. Navy. When the...
Military Aviation, News
Iraq is about to buy French. After years of relying almost exclusively on American fighter jets, Baghdad is in the final stages of negotiations with Paris for 14 Dassault Rafale F4 fighters — the latest and most capable variant of France’s omnirole combat...
Military Aviation, News
France has just announced the largest peacetime increase in military spending in its modern history. An additional €36 billion — approximately $42 billion — will flow into the armed forces between 2026 and 2030, targeting the three domains where the war in the Middle...
Military Aviation, News
For the first time in the history of the Atlantic Alliance, a non-American military unit has earned the stamp of approval from the most demanding special operations air force on the planet. The Italian Air Force’s 17° Stormo Incursori — the Raiders Wing, based...
English
Recent Comments