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The AGM-188A weighs 225 kilograms, flies at high subsonic speed, and strikes targets at ranges exceeding 930 kilometres. It costs a fraction of a Tomahawk. And the United States Air Force just launched it from an F-16 over the Gulf of Mexico. The weapon is called...
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Tianrui Liang had a problem. The 21-year-old aeronautical engineering student from the University of Glasgow had just spent his spring break photographing some of the most sensitive military aircraft in the United States — and now the FBI was waiting for him at JFK....
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On April 19, 2026, the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance put a 5-inch shell through the engine room of an Iranian cargo ship. The vessel — M/V Touska — had been steaming at 17 knots toward Bandar Abbas, ignoring six hours of warnings from the U.S. Navy. When the...
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Iraq is about to buy French. After years of relying almost exclusively on American fighter jets, Baghdad is in the final stages of negotiations with Paris for 14 Dassault Rafale F4 fighters — the latest and most capable variant of France’s omnirole combat...
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France has just announced the largest peacetime increase in military spending in its modern history. An additional €36 billion — approximately $42 billion — will flow into the armed forces between 2026 and 2030, targeting the three domains where the war in the Middle...
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For the first time in the history of the Atlantic Alliance, a non-American military unit has earned the stamp of approval from the most demanding special operations air force on the planet. The Italian Air Force’s 17° Stormo Incursori — the Raiders Wing, based...
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It took the Navy six days to say it out loud. The MQ-4C Triton that vanished over the Persian Gulf on April 9 is not coming back. The U.S. Navy has officially confirmed the loss of the unmanned surveillance aircraft near the Strait of Hormuz, ending nearly a week of...
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The U.S. Air Force just showed the world something it has guarded for years: the top of the B-21 Raider. On April 14, the Air Force released two photographs of its next-generation stealth bomber conducting aerial refueling tests with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Edwards...
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Everybody talks about the F-47. Every defence reporter, every think-tank panel, every congressional hearing. Boeing’s clean-sheet sixth-generation fighter for the Air Force gets the headlines and the money and the Trump tweets. Meanwhile, across the river at...
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Follow-up to our April 1 post, “Navy’s $10 Billion Trainer Race Begins.” Two weeks ago, the U.S. Navy’s hunt for a new jet trainer was a rumour with a price tag. This week it is a formal contest. NAVAIR issued the long-awaited Undergraduate Jet...
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The Precision Strike Missile was supposed to be the Army’s long-reach wonder weapon — a 500-kilometre knife that could punch through anything ATACMS couldn’t reach. On April 1, 2023, Lockheed Martin delivered the first production rounds. Three years later,...
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On Friday, April 11, 2026, the FAA and Pentagon quietly shook hands on something unprecedented: a federal framework allowing the U.S. military to operate high-energy laser weapons against drones in civilian airspace without forcing emergency airport closures. It...
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