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No crew quarters. No mess hall. No bridge watch. Just 170 feet of autonomous warship carrying Tomahawk cruise missiles in a hidden deck compartment, capable of crossing an ocean without a single human aboard. Saildrone’s Spectre is the kind of vessel that sounds...
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Am 24. April 2026 formalisierten das Department of the Air Force und das niederländische Verteidigungsministerium — but this story belongs in English because its implications are transatlantic. The Netherlands has become the first European nation to join the United...
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If Washington goes dark — nuclear strike, decapitation attack, catastrophic disaster — the first aircraft in the sky won’t be Air Force One. It will be a helicopter lifting VIPs from the Pentagon, the Capitol, and secure locations across the National Capital...
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A Soviet-designed passenger turboprop, built to ferry 17 commuters between regional airports, now hunts kamikaze drones at night over Ukraine. The Antonov An-28 — a boxy, twin-engine workhorse that first flew in 1969 — has been converted into an airborne interceptor...
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The order dropped on Truth Social like a depth charge. On April 23, President Trump told the U.S. Navy to “shoot and kill any boat” caught laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz — “no hesitation.” It is the most direct threat of lethal force...
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Boeing says the 737-7 and 737-10 will be certified this year. After a saga of groundings, door plug failures, production freezes, and congressional investigations, the two remaining MAX variants are in their final certification phases — with deliveries expected to...
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Southwest Airlines just posted a $227 million net profit for the first quarter of 2026. Across the Atlantic, Lufthansa is slashing 20,000 flights. Air Transat, WestJet, and Air Canada are cutting capacity. The European Commission is scrambling to guarantee jet fuel...
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Finland wants the legal authority to host nuclear weapons on its soil. Three years after joining NATO, Helsinki has submitted a proposal that would allow the import and storage of nuclear warheads — a radical departure for a country that spent seven decades as a...
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The Pentagon wants $75 billion for drones. Not over a decade. Not as a theoretical line item. Seventy-five billion dollars in a single budget year — the largest investment in autonomous systems any military has ever proposed. The fiscal year 2027 budget request,...
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Iran claimed it shot down an American F-35 stealth fighter. Then it displayed the wreckage for the cameras. There was just one problem: the debris clearly belonged to an F-15E Strike Eagle — a completely different aircraft that is not stealth, not single-engine, and...
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Boeing’s MQ-25 Stingray — the U.S. Navy’s first carrier-based unmanned tanker — has completed high-speed taxi tests and is days from its maiden flight. After years of delays, budget overruns, and engineering challenges, the aircraft that will fundamentally...
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Saab is building Gripens faster than at any point in the fighter’s three-decade history — and it is not fast enough. On April 23, CEO Micael Johansson told investors that production is heading toward 20 to 30 aircraft per year, up from roughly 15 today, with a...
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