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It was meant to be the aircraft that bound Europe together — a tailless, sensor-fused sixth-generation fighter, flanked by swarms of loyal drones, sharing one encrypted combat cloud, flying off French and German runways by 2040. On Monday, the Élysée Palace ended it...
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Iran fired ballistic missiles at Israel on Sunday evening — the first direct attack since the ceasefire halted the U.S.-Israeli war with Tehran in April. Hours later, Israel struck back with air raids on central and western Iran, including targets near Tehran. The...
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Airports around the world are quietly repainting their runways. Not because the paint is fading — because the numbers are wrong. Magnetic north is drifting, and the compass heading that defined a runway when it was built twenty or thirty years ago no longer matches...
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Update: This article provides the latest on the investigation into the Lufthansa 787 nose gear collapse at Frankfurt Airport. For our initial coverage, see Brand-New Lufthansa 787 Drops on Its Nose. Germany’s Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation...
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The Air Force wants $3.2 billion more than its current budget to fix aircraft that are breaking faster than they can be repaired. Vice Chief Gen. John Lamontagne told lawmakers that the service’s demand for new airplanes is outstripping contractors’...
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Two lieutenant colonels at Joint Base San Antonio just became the most important instructor pilots in the U.S. Air Force. In an announcement on 3 June 2026, Air Education and Training Command said Lt. Col. Michael Trott and Lt. Col. Phillip Bourquin of the 99th Flying...
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For decades, the global fighter market had two aisles: American and Russian. You bought F-16s or you bought MiG-29s. China was a buyer, not a seller — importing Russian engines, Israeli avionics, and Western design philosophy to build aircraft it could not yet export....
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France’s ambassador to Sweden has confirmed what defence analysts suspected and Kyiv desperately hoped: Dassault Rafale F4 fighters will join the Ukrainian Air Force. The announcement, made by Ambassador Thierry Carlier in early June 2026, places the most...
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In a closed-door meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, a senior Pentagon official told European allies what many had feared but few expected so bluntly: the United States is pulling a third of its fighter jets out of NATO’s crisis-response pool, withdrawing...
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The Air Force wanted the A-10 dead by 2026. Congress just told them to keep it alive until at least 2030 — and to maintain the training pipeline, the Weapons School billets, and the testing infrastructure the service had already started dismantling. The Warthog...
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Two F-35Bs rolled out of Fleet Readiness Center East at Cherry Point with new brains, new eyes, and new reflexes. Airframes BF-105 and BF-88 are the first operational Lightning IIs to receive the Technology Refresh-3 retrofit — the hardware backbone that transforms a...
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A Rafale punched through Mach 1 over the DGA missile test range on 1 June and released an MICA NG infrared missile into the markedly hotter airflow that supersonic flight generates. The seeker locked. The missile guided. France just proved its next-generation...
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