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The Pentagon just killed a $6 billion programme that was supposed to modernise the ground infrastructure controlling every GPS satellite in orbit. The Next Generation Operational Control System — OCX — has been cancelled after years of cost overruns, schedule slips,...
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While American F-15Es and F/A-18s bomb Iranian military targets from the Persian Gulf, a handful of Grumman F-14A Tomcats sit in hardened shelters at Iranian air bases — the last operational Tomcats on earth. Built in the United States, sold to the Shah, abandoned by...
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El Al is stretching its wings to the bottom of the world. Israel’s flag carrier has announced its longest-ever scheduled route: a 7,604-mile nonstop from Tel Aviv to Buenos Aires, operated by Boeing 787 Dreamliners with three classes of service. At 16.5 hours...
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It has marble showers, plush VIP suites, and a price tag approaching $400 million for the conversion alone. It was built as a flying palace for the Emir of Qatar. And by this summer, it will carry the President of the United States — with one critical capability...
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The war in Iran is now grounding flights in Frankfurt. Lufthansa Group announced on April 21 that it will cancel 20,000 short-haul flights through October 2026, saving 40,000 metric tonnes of jet fuel as the Iran conflict sends energy prices into territory not seen...
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Somewhere in a field exercise, a small drone lifts off, scans the ground with artificial intelligence, spots a downed enemy UAV, extends a robotic arm, grabs it, and flies back to base with the prize. That’s Project RED — Recovery Exploitation Drone — and the US...
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The US Navy’s most important aircraft isn’t a fighter. It’s a turboprop with a dinner-plate radar on its back — and it just received the most significant upgrade in 25 years. Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have completed testing of the Digital...
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A cruise missile the size of a 500-pound bomb, manufactured almost entirely by 3D printers, can now fly over 1,000 nautical miles. CoAspire unveiled the RAACM-ER — the extended-range variant of its Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile — at the Sea-Air-Space...
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The tactics manual was wrong. The Western instructors who trained Ukraine’s first F-16 pilots handed them a playbook forged in Desert Storm, honed over Iraq and Afghanistan, and perfected against adversaries who couldn’t shoot back from beyond visual...
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For the first time since the Imperial Japanese Navy’s carriers were sent to the bottom of the Pacific, Japan has a warship designed to launch fixed-wing combat aircraft. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force released photographs on April 20 showing JS Izumo with...
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The Royal Australian Air Force just received the most advanced electronic warfare system ever mounted on a fighter jet. Raytheon confirmed on April 22 that the RAAF has taken delivery of ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer — Mid Band (NGJ-MB) pods for its fleet of EA-18G...
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A 500-pound bomb flew 200 nautical miles, hit within metres of its target, and cost a fraction of a cruise missile. Boeing’s GBU-75 Joint Direct Attack Munition — Long Range didn’t just extend the range of a dumb bomb. It turned one into a powered,...
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