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On the morning of 5 May 2026, in a vast exhibition hall on the European shore of Istanbul, something quietly extraordinary happened. Turkey’s Ministry of National Defence unveiled — with little prior warning to the international press — a full-scale mockup of...
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There is a sound that no aviation fan forgets. A rising howl of twin Pratt & Whitney TF30s at full afterburner, the variable-geometry wings sweeping back as the jet accelerates from a carrier deck at a rate that seems almost physically offensive — as if physics...
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Rheinmetall’s stock peaked above €2,000 in early October 2025. It is trading today at around €1,180 — a fall of roughly 40 percent in seven months. BAE Systems is down 22 percent over the same period. Saab is down 18 percent. Leonardo is down 14 percent. Thales is...
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The Lufthansa Crane has been the airline’s mascot since 1918, longer than the airline has been called Lufthansa. The bird first appeared on Deutsche Luft-Reederei aircraft when commercial aviation was only weeks old. It has been redrawn three times in the...
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Atlas Air is the world’s largest operator of Boeing 747 freighters. The carrier flies more 747-8Fs and 747-400s than any other airline on Earth. The 747 is, in many ways, the brand. So when Atlas walks into Toulouse and signs a $7-billion order for 20 firm and...
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The aircraft is the size of a Cessna 172 but flies itself. There is no pilot. There is no cockpit. There is no second seat for an emergency manual override. Pyka’s Pelican Cargo just took off, flew a 200-kilometre route over central California, and landed itself...
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The General Electric J85 first ran on a test stand in 1956. Eisenhower was president. The Soviets had not yet launched Sputnik. Seventy years later, the same engine — virtually unchanged in its core architecture — is being kept alive by more than $178 million in...
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The F-15E Strike Eagle has worn the same paint scheme since 1988. Three shades of grey, low-visibility national insignia, and the squadron’s tail flash. It looks the way fighter jets are supposed to look — neutral, businesslike, slightly bored. This week, that...
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For 18 years, somewhere over Afghanistan, Iraq, or — more recently — the Black Sea, an unremarkable-looking Bombardier business jet has been flying loops at 45,000 feet doing the most important job in modern American air combat: making everyone talk to everyone. The...
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STARK is a Berlin-headquartered defence start-up nobody had heard of three years ago. Today it makes one of Germany’s most important loitering munitions — and as of this week, those drones can hunt in coordinated AI-driven packs. STARK confirmed this week that...
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The AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon was supposed to be America’s first operational air-launched hypersonic missile. It was effectively killed in March 2023 — after three failed booster tests in 2021 and a failed all-up round test that month — when...
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Argentina has not had real combat air power since 1982. Forty-four years after the Falklands, the country flew its last operational Mirage in 2015 and has been making do with subsonic A-4 Skyhawks and IA-63 Pampa trainers ever since. That is finally over: the F-16...
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