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It took the Navy six days to say it out loud. The MQ-4C Triton that vanished over the Persian Gulf on April 9 is not coming back. The U.S. Navy has officially confirmed the loss of the unmanned surveillance aircraft near the Strait of Hormuz, ending nearly a week of...
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The U.S. Air Force just showed the world something it has guarded for years: the top of the B-21 Raider. On April 14, the Air Force released two photographs of its next-generation stealth bomber conducting aerial refueling tests with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Edwards...
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Everybody talks about the F-47. Every defence reporter, every think-tank panel, every congressional hearing. Boeing’s clean-sheet sixth-generation fighter for the Air Force gets the headlines and the money and the Trump tweets. Meanwhile, across the river at...
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Follow-up to our April 1 post, “Navy’s $10 Billion Trainer Race Begins.” Two weeks ago, the U.S. Navy’s hunt for a new jet trainer was a rumour with a price tag. This week it is a formal contest. NAVAIR issued the long-awaited Undergraduate Jet...
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The Precision Strike Missile was supposed to be the Army’s long-reach wonder weapon — a 500-kilometre knife that could punch through anything ATACMS couldn’t reach. On April 1, 2023, Lockheed Martin delivered the first production rounds. Three years later,...
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On Friday, April 11, 2026, the FAA and Pentagon quietly shook hands on something unprecedented: a federal framework allowing the U.S. military to operate high-energy laser weapons against drones in civilian airspace without forcing emergency airport closures. It...
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On April 13, 2026, Air National Guard leaders delivered a stark message to Congress: the U.S. Air Force is “the oldest, the smallest, and the least ready in its 78-year history.” To fix that, they say, America needs to buy 100 new fighters per year....
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In late April 2026, the U.S. Navy quietly initiated what may be the most consequential mine-clearing campaign since Operation Desert Storm. After weeks of escalating tensions and failed diplomacy with Iran, two Avenger-class minesweepers—USS Chief (MCM 1) and USS...
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The Navy’s been studying seagliders for littoral ops. The Air Force frets over contested zones. But on April 13, 2026, the Marines—historically the force that thinks different—just flew something that looks like a distant cousin of the Soviet Caspian Sea...
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It costs $20,000 to kill a $20,000 drone. That sounds like break-even. It is, in fact, the most important number in air defence right now. For a decade, Western air forces have wrestled with an asymmetry as deep as any in modern warfare: their premier air-defence...
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The morning of April 3, 2026, started like a hundred others at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. But as the final class of A-10C Thunderbolt II student pilots walked across the tarmac after their last sortie, something shifted. The schoolhouse that had trained every...
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Here is a number that should stop you mid-scroll: 62 percent. That is how much American Airlines reduced contrail formation on 2,400 transatlantic flights using nothing but artificial intelligence and minor altitude adjustments. The fuel cost? An extra 0.3 percent....
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