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Once a B-1B Lancer goes to the boneyard, it stays in the boneyard. That has been the rule for a quarter of a century. Until last week. The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that a single B-1B has been pulled out of long-term storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in...
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The U.S. Air Force has just done something it almost never does: it has put F-22 Raptors on a runway in Japan. A package of Raptors landed at Kadena Air Base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa earlier this week, the most senior officials at Pacific Air Forces...
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The U.S. Navy has used a fighter jet to disable an oil tanker. Read that sentence again, because it is the kind of thing that simply does not happen in normal years. On 6 May 2026, an F/A-18E Super Hornet, operating from a U.S. Navy carrier in the Gulf of Oman, lined...
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If you happened to be standing on a desert ridge near Edwards Air Force Base in early May, you might have heard nothing at all. Which is precisely the point. The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency — better known as DARPA, the agency that funds the kind of...
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The Tomcat may fly again. Twenty years after the U.S. Navy retired its last F-14D and sent the survivors to museums, a bipartisan bill working its way through Congress would pull three of those airframes back out — and put one of them back into the sky. It is being...
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A Russian Tu-95MS Bear strategic bomber has been photographed carrying a Kh-101 air-launched cruise missile over the Barents and Norwegian Seas — the second time in twelve months that Moscow has publicly flaunted its premier stand-off weapon on a long-range patrol...
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DARPA and the U.S. Air Force are building something that sounds like it belongs in a science fiction novel: a reusable hypersonic strike aircraft that flies above Mach 5, launches from a conventional runway, strikes targets thousands of miles away, and lands back at...
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A 21-year-old Chinese national studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Glasgow was arrested by the FBI after allegedly photographing restricted military aircraft at one of America’s most sensitive air force bases. The arrest highlights a growing...
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The most expensive weapons programme in history may soon deliver fighter jets without radars. Block 4 development delays have pushed the F-35’s next-generation APG-85 radar so far behind schedule that new production aircraft could roll off the Lockheed Martin...
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The Air Force wants to give its tankers and cargo planes teeth. A new programme worth more than $500 million through 2031 will fit KC-46 Pegasus tankers and C-17 Globemaster transports with onboard sensors and weapons capable of detecting, tracking, and destroying...
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After $1.8 billion in Boeing losses, years of ejection seat deficiencies, flight control software problems, and supply chain nightmares, the T-7A Red Hawk has finally crossed the finish line. The Air Force approved the jet for low-rate initial production on May 4,...
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The Air Force wants 22 EA-37B Compass Call electronic attack aircraft — nearly doubling a fleet that did not exist five years ago. The FY2027 budget request includes $660 million for three new jets, with plans to buy seven more through 2031. It is the biggest bet on...
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