Military Aviation, News
The United States Air Force just invited the tech industry to build artificial intelligence data centres on some of the most remote military installations in America. The offer: 4,700 acres of underutilised land across three bases in Alaska. The requirement: at least...
Military Aviation, News
A company that did not exist seven years ago just raised $350 million to build unmanned aircraft that fly faster than any operational military jet on Earth. Hermeus, a defence aviation startup founded in 2018, closed its Series C round on April 7, 2026, reaching a $1...
Military Aviation, News
The United States Air Force’s next air superiority fighter — the Boeing F-47, the centrepiece of the Next Generation Air Dominance programme — is slipping further behind schedule. Senior lawmakers and defence analysts now project that the aircraft will not reach...
Military Aviation, News
On April 10, 2026, the Swedish Armed Forces released photographs that tell a story in a single frame: two JAS 39 Gripen fighters flying overwatch above a Russian Kilo-class submarine as it transited the Kattegat — the narrow strait between Sweden and Denmark that...
Military Aviation, News
On March 3, 2026, an Iranian ballistic missile struck one of the most valuable single pieces of military hardware the United States has ever deployed overseas. The target was not a warship, not an airfield, and not a command centre. It was a radar — a three-faced,...
History & Legends, News
There is only one left that can fly. Out of the hundreds of PB4Y-2 Privateers that the US Navy operated across the Pacific during the final years of World War II, a single airworthy example survives — based in Casa Grande, Arizona, maintained by a small crew of...
Aviation World, News
The price of Jet-A fuel in the United States averaged $8.63 per gallon in April 2026. That is $1.77 more than March. It is $2.03 more than a year ago. And it is more than double what it cost before Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February. For anyone who...
Aviation World, News
It began life as a Canadian underdog. Bombardier’s CSeries was the aircraft that wasn’t supposed to survive — a small, clean-sheet design from a company that had never built anything bigger than a regional jet, taking on Boeing and Airbus on their home turf....
Aviation World, News
At 8:07 PM Eastern Time on April 10, 2026, a blackened capsule trailing a wake of superheated plasma punched through Earth’s atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour and splashed into the Pacific Ocean forty miles off the coast of San Diego. Inside were four people who had...
Military Aviation, News
The man who will shape the next generation of Air Force officers has 2,500 flight hours, 300 of them in combat, and has flown two of America’s most formidable fighters: the F-15C Eagle and the F-22 Raptor. Col. Brandon J. Tellez, a 2001 Air Force Academy graduate and...
Military Aviation, News
Thirty-nine aircraft. More than 13,000 sorties. Five weeks of sustained air combat over and around Iran. The War Zone has published a comprehensive, open-source tracking of every US aircraft confirmed lost or damaged during Operation Epic Fury — and the numbers tell a...
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In February 2026, a C-17 Globemaster III lifted a nuclear reactor off the tarmac at March Air Reserve Base in California and flew it to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The reactor, built by Valar Atomics, was small enough to fit inside a standard cargo bay. It was the...
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