America’s Nukes May Move East
For sixty years, the map of American nuclear weapons in Europe has barely moved. Six nations — Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and, most recently again, the United Kingdom — quietly host U.S.-owned B61 gravity bombs under NATO’s...
MQ-25 Stingray Completes Maiden Flight
Boeing’s MQ-25A Stingray completed its maiden flight on 25 April at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport, flew for two hours, and demonstrated autonomous taxi, takeoff, flight, and landing under ground-controller command. Three weeks later, the Navy cleared it for...
CCA Engine Race: GE and Rolls-Royce
The engine that will power America’s autonomous combat drones does not exist yet — but six companies are now racing to build it. The US Air Force has awarded medium-thrust engine design contracts to GE Aerospace and Rolls-Royce for the Autonomous Collaborative...
Ukraine Drones Hit St. Petersburg
Ukrainian long-range drones struck St. Petersburg overnight on 3 June, setting an oil terminal ablaze and damaging a guided-missile corvette at Kronstadt naval base — all of it roughly 1,100 kilometres from the nearest Ukrainian-held territory, and hours before...
Bob Lodge Chose Death Over Capture
On 10 May 1972, Major Robert “Bob” Lodge was flying an F-4D Phantom over North Vietnam when enemy fire disabled his aircraft. He had the knowledge to eject. He had the time. He chose not to. Lodge carried classified information about tactics, capabilities,...
The Predator Is Back — Iran Shot It Down
The MQ-1 Predator was retired by the US Air Force in 2018. Eight years later, Iran just shot down a drone CENTCOM will only identify as an “MQ-1” over the Persian Gulf — quite possibly the Army’s still-serving MQ-1C Gray Eagle rather than a...
Russia Delivers New A-50U After Losing Three
Ukraine has destroyed or crippled three of Russia’s irreplaceable A-50U airborne early warning aircraft since January 2024. Now Moscow has quietly delivered a replacement. An image published by the Fighter-Bomber Telegram channel on 31 May shows a freshly...
729 Drones and Missiles Hit Ukraine
Russia fired 729 weapons at Ukraine overnight on 1–2 June in the largest single aerial assault since the full-scale invasion began. 656 drones. 73 missiles. Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia — all hit. At least 22 people are dead, including two children. More than...
Shot Down Twice in Five Weeks
The pilot of DUDE 44 is almost certainly the first US Air Force fixed-wing aviator to be shot down twice in the same conflict since Vietnam. He survived both times. The first shootdown was friendly fire. The second was enemy. Both happened within five weeks. On 2...
Iran Strikes Kuwait Airport
An Iranian drone punched through the roof of Terminal 1 at Kuwait International Airport on Wednesday, killing an Indian national and wounding 63 others in the deadliest attack on a Gulf state since the April ceasefire. Kuwait’s defence ministry said it detected 30...
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