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The Pentagon wants $75 billion for drones. Not over a decade. Not as a theoretical line item. Seventy-five billion dollars in a single budget year — the largest investment in autonomous systems any military has ever proposed. The fiscal year 2027 budget request,...
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Iran claimed it shot down an American F-35 stealth fighter. Then it displayed the wreckage for the cameras. There was just one problem: the debris clearly belonged to an F-15E Strike Eagle — a completely different aircraft that is not stealth, not single-engine, and...
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Boeing’s MQ-25 Stingray — the U.S. Navy’s first carrier-based unmanned tanker — has completed high-speed taxi tests and is days from its maiden flight. After years of delays, budget overruns, and engineering challenges, the aircraft that will fundamentally...
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Saab is building Gripens faster than at any point in the fighter’s three-decade history — and it is not fast enough. On April 23, CEO Micael Johansson told investors that production is heading toward 20 to 30 aircraft per year, up from roughly 15 today, with a...
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Europe’s largest missile manufacturer is doubling its output of Aster air defence interceptors and lifting overall production by 40 percent this year. MBDA is also committing €5 billion in new investment and hiring 2,800 people. The continent is rearming — and...
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In 40 days of sustained air strikes against Iran, the Israeli Air Force dropped approximately 19,000 munitions. Now the bill has arrived — and Israel is restocking at speed. On April 22, the Israeli Defense Ministry awarded Elbit Systems contracts worth approximately...
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Two Russian supersonic bombers, ten escort fighters, and the combined air forces of six NATO nations. For four hours over the Baltic Sea on April 20, one of the largest airspace confrontations since the Cold War played out in real time. NATO tracked two Tupolev...
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Germany wants the most powerful conventional military in Europe. By 2039. That is not a think-tank fantasy — it is now official government policy, backed by legislation, funded by billions, and documented in the most comprehensive overhaul of Bundeswehr planning in...
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A crewless boat just shot down a drone. No sailors aboard. No anti-aircraft battery. Just a Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel, a compact interceptor called the Sting, and a Russian Shahed that never reached its target. On April 19, Ukraine’s 412th...
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Emmanuel Macron arrives in Athens today with a proposal that reads like a Cold War arms bazaar: give us all 43 of your Mirage 2000 fighters, and we will sell you Rafales at a discount. The Mirages? They are going to Ukraine. The deal, first reported by Le Parisien,...
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French Rafale fighters armed with nuclear-capable ASMP cruise missiles will soon rehearse strikes on targets near St. Petersburg. The exercise partner is Poland. The theatre is the Baltic Sea. And the message is aimed squarely at Moscow. According to the Polish news...
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Two cabinet ministers are out. A president is backpedalling. And at the centre of it all sits a $3.5 billion order for 24 fighter jets that Peru’s military desperately wants — and Peru’s politicians can’t agree on. On April 22, Peru’s Defence...
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