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At 9:04 in the morning Eastern time, mission control in Houston sent five people in orbit an instruction no astronaut wants to hear: get into your spacecraft, put on your suits, and be ready to leave. Not for a drill. Because the International Space Station is losing...
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Update, June 5, 2026: Project Fear has released the full video — now embedded below. On the evening of June 2, a YouTube channel best known for sleeping in haunted asylums posted a single thermal-camera frame and lit the aviation internet on fire. The image, captured...
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The missile is pink. That is the first thing you notice in the test footage Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point released this week: a bright flamingo-pink rocket leaping off its launcher and carving through a “fully controlled maneuvering flight.” The colour...
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Something is missing from the submarine that appeared at Shanghai’s Jiangnan Shipyard at the end of May: the sail. Satellite imagery captured on June 1 by Vantor shows a boat roughly 120 metres long — longer than most nuclear attack submarines — with...
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For one second — literally one second of footage — Turkey’s most secretive military aircraft flashed across the screen. The clip, buried in a Ministry of National Defense video marking the 115th anniversary of the Turkish Air Force on June 1, gave...
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Two days after the last five Marine Corps Harriers shut down their engines forever, the man flying their replacement sat down to explain what comes next. Major William “Braankles” Horn grew up in Rochester, New York, spent a year on a commercial fishing...
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The U.S. Air Force tanker fleet flew through Iranian missile barrages and one-way drone attacks during Operation Epic Fury — and brought most of its battered KC-135s home. The latest two casualties at RAF Mildenhall, though, never left the ground. They were...
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On Wednesday evening, a factory-fresh Airbus slipped onto the runway at Tampa International after ten hours over the North Atlantic. No water-cannon salute, no press conference — United and Airbus didn’t even put out a statement. But make no mistake: the...
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Somewhere behind the front lines in occupied Ukraine, Russian supply trucks have started looking like escaped zoo animals. Photos that surfaced on social media in early June show Ural and KamAZ heavy trucks painted nose to tail — wheels and tires included...
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The Pentagon just paid SpaceX $4.16 billion to start putting the AWACS out of a job. On May 29, the U.S. Space Force handed Elon Musk’s company the first major award under its Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator programme — SB-AMTI — a...
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For nine years, one subfleet of Emirates A380s held a record nobody else wanted: 615 seats, the densest passenger configuration ever flown on a commercial aircraft. Two classes, no frills up top — just row after row of economy stretching across both decks of the...
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A delta wing flickers along a tree line in eastern Ukraine, so low it seems to brush the branches, then hauls up into a steep, sudden climb. The silhouette is unmistakable to anyone raised on French aviation: a Dassault Mirage 2000. And the manoeuvre is just as...
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