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One hundred stealth bombers. That has been the number since the B-21 Raider programme was announced — the minimum buy the Air Force said it needed to replace the aging B-2 Spirit and B-1B Lancer fleets. One hundred was already ambitious. Now the man who controls the...
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Buried beneath hundreds of metres of rock and reinforced concrete, Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment plant survived the most intense conventional bombing campaign in modern history. The 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators dropped by B-2 Spirit...
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Imagine a C-17 Globemaster — the workhorse cargo plane that usually hauls Humvees and MREs — opening its rear ramp at 25,000 feet and disgorging a stream of cruise missiles that fan out across the sky, each steering itself toward a separate target hundreds of miles...
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The satellite image is dated March 26, 2026. Two enormous flying-wing aircraft sit on the apron of a secretive test facility in the deserts of Xinjiang, western China. One has a wingspan analysts estimate at 173 feet — roughly the width of a Northrop Grumman B-2...
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For three decades, it was the worst-kept secret in American aviation. A gruelling desert hike, a scramble up a 7,915-foot peak, a pair of good binoculars, and you could see it: the runways, the hangars, the taxiways of the most classified airfield on Earth. Now the...
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The video is grainy, shot from a chase plane banking hard over the grey North Sea. A Belgian F-16 rolls in, and six stubby rocket pods glow briefly as a volley of precision-guided munitions streaks toward a target drone. The drone disintegrates. The Belgian Air Force...
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Three months after Israeli fighter jets struck targets deep inside Iran, Jerusalem is doubling down on airpower. On May 3, Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Procurement approved the purchase of two full squadrons — 25 F-35I Adir stealth fighters and 25 F-15IA...
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Every military aircraft, ship, and guided weapon in the American arsenal depends on GPS. And every adversary with a $50,000 jammer can degrade or deny that signal across an entire operational area. This vulnerability — demonstrated by Iran during Operation Epic Fury,...
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When governments on both sides of a conflict control the narrative — denying strikes, minimising damage, and curating imagery — how does the world know what actually happened? Bellingcat’s answer is a tool that bypasses official channels entirely: the Iran...
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On April 24, the US Navy announced that USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) had completed sea trials following a 15-month maintenance availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The carrier — known universally as “IKE” — is back in fighting shape and widely...
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There is a city in North Carolina that has never had a non-stop flight to Europe. On April 13, Aer Lingus changed that — launching Dublin to Raleigh-Durham service with the Airbus A321XLR, operating up to five times per week. The route would have been economically...
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Akasa Air is two years old, operates 38 aircraft, and has just signed a firm order for 226 Boeing 737 MAX jets — with 188 more in the pipeline. For a startup that did not exist before 2022, the numbers are staggering. They also tell a story about India’s...
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