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China has built the largest airborne early warning aircraft in its inventory — and possibly the most capable radar plane on earth that is not American. The KJ-3000, based on the indigenous Y-20 strategic transport, represents a generational leap from the handful of...
Military Aviation, News
Somewhere in the Nevada desert, a Boeing 737 sits in a hangar that does not officially exist. It looks almost normal from a distance — the familiar cigar fuselage, the low-slung JT8D engines, the T-tail absent because this is a 737, not a DC-9. But look closer and...
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The head of the United Nations aviation agency stood before a room of airline executives, intelligence analysts, and government officials in Malta and said what many of them already feared: the skies are no longer safe in the way the industry has assumed for decades....
Aviation World, News
A narrowbody aircraft has no business offering lie-flat beds across the Atlantic. And yet here it is. On April 24, Air Canada took delivery of its first Airbus A321XLR in Hamburg — and with it, a cabin configuration that would have seemed absurd five years ago: 14...
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Northrop Grumman is putting its own money where the Air Force’s bomber fleet is. The defence giant has committed $2.5 billion in company-funded investment to accelerate production of the B-21 Raider, the most advanced stealth bomber ever built, by 25 percent per...
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A Vietnamese low-cost carrier just became the most significant international customer for a Chinese-built airliner. Vietjet signed a finance lease for 10 COMAC C909 regional jets on April 16, during a Vietnamese state visit to Beijing — a deal that is as much about...
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The Air Force is bleeding pilots, and two senators think they know how to stop it — with more jets, more money, and a radical idea: let fighter pilots take a year off and come back. Senators Ted Budd (R-NC) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced a bipartisan three-bill...
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Emmanuel Macron arrived in Athens on April 24 with a proposal he clearly thought was elegant: hand over your Mirage 2000 fleet for Ukraine, and France will give you a preferential deal on new Rafales. A swap of old for new, West for East, legacy iron for cutting-edge...
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Lockheed Martin just turned in its worst quarterly earnings surprise in years, and the culprits are two of the most iconic names in military aviation. The F-16 Fighting Falcon and the C-130 Hercules — workhorses that have defined American air power for decades —...
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Four J-20 stealth fighters in tight formation, flanking a massive grey transport aircraft over the East China Sea. The image, released by Chinese state media on April 22, was staged for maximum impact — and it worked. China’s Y-20B strategic airlifter, powered...
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Am 25. März 2026 rollte bei Korea Aerospace Industries in Sacheon das erste Serienexemplar der KF-21 Boramae aus der Montagehalle. Nicht ein weiterer Prototyp. Nicht eine Vorserienmaschine. Das erste Exemplar einer geplanten Bauserie von 120 Maschinen, bestimmt für...
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Twelve companies. $3.2 billion. Interceptors that kill missiles from orbit. The U.S. Space Force just awarded the first major contracts for Golden Dome’s space-based interceptor layer, and the list of winners reads like a who’s who of Silicon Valley...
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