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The crash that killed three UPS crew members and 12 people on the ground at Louisville’s Worldport hub in November 2025 has just become a multi-defendant lawsuit. New filings name UPS, Boeing, the late captain’s estate, and several other parties — and the...
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The Airbus A220 has been the most underestimated commercial airliner of the past decade — a Canadian-designed jet (originally the Bombardier C Series) that quietly piled up loyal customers and stellar dispatch reliability while the headlines went to bigger aircraft....
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Lufthansa Group doubled down on its dual-source widebody strategy this week with a single, perfectly-balanced announcement: 10 Airbus A350-900s and 10 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. Same order. Same press release. Same Monday morning. It is one of the most diplomatically...
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Homestead Air Reserve Base sits 30 miles south of Miami. It survived Hurricane Andrew in 1992 by losing nearly every building it had. It has spent the three decades since flying F-16s on a quiet but consequential mission: counter-drug intercepts over the Caribbean and...
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The Pentagon has finally put a date on the test that proves America can shoot down a hypersonic missile. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) confirmed this week that a counter-hypersonic live-fire intercept test, known as Project Maverick, is now scheduled for fiscal...
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A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II transmitted an emergency 7700 code on its transponder while flying over the Gulf of Oman last week. The aircraft was at 10,500 feet over open water — well below normal F-35 cruising altitude — when it began squawking the universal...
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Africa’s most populous nation just seen the first jet of a fleet that will reshape its air force. The first Leonardo M-346FA for the Nigerian Air Force has been formally rolled out at Leonardo’s plant in Italy — a light fighter built in Italy that combines...
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The U.S. Air Force has very few weapons that nobody else can match. The EA-37B Compass Call is one of them — a Gulfstream business jet stuffed with classified electronic-attack hardware that can shut down enemy radios, command nets, GPS, and air-defence radars across...
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The MQ-9 Reaper is famous for one thing: putting a Hellfire missile through a window from 30,000 feet. But Hellfires cost about $150,000 each, and the Air Force has burned through them at a rate the budget can no longer sustain. Enter the APKWS — a $20,000...
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The 9 May Victory Day Parade is Vladimir Putin’s annual showpiece — the moment when Russia’s military prowess is paraded through Red Square and broadcast to the nation. Tanks. Missiles. Soldiers in step. And, traditionally, a thundering flyover of Russian...
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Kill marks on a fighter are not just paint. They are a public statement — the Air Force confirming that this airframe, with this pilot, killed that target. New images released this week of a U.S. Air Force F-16 show something nobody has seen on a USAF Viper in...
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The Pentagon is not letting another sixth-generation fighter slip the way the F-35 did. In a quiet but significant move on May 7, 2026, the Defense Department’s top acquisition official took direct oversight of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX next-generation...
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