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UPDATE — 3 June 2026: This post updates our earlier coverage of the Harrier retirement. Read the original article here. At 10:00 Eastern this morning, five AV-8B Harrier IIs from Marine Attack Squadron 223 — the “Bulldogs,” the last operational Harrier...
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The most expensive aircraft program in American history just kicked into a higher gear. Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force have signed a $4.5 billion deal to increase B-21 Raider production capacity by 25 percent, compressing delivery timelines for the...
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For the first time in nearly a decade, the U.S. Air Force’s primary fighter fleet has fallen below the minimum size that Congress wrote into law. The number that was supposed to be a floor has become a ceiling, and the gap between what America needs in the air...
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On the first day of June, under the sharp Castilian sun, a new chapter in European combat aviation was written at the Airbus Defence and Space assembly line in Getafe, just south of Madrid. Spain rolled out its first Tranche 4 Eurofighter Typhoon, a twin-seat aircraft...
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At 9:00 p.m. EDT on May 28, 2026, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket erupted in a colossal fireball at Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. All seven BE-4 methane engines had ignited for a routine static fire test. Seconds later, the first stage of...
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The U.S. Navy has quietly embarked on one of its most urgent fleet-wide upgrades in decades. Radar-guided AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles and Coyote interceptor drones are being rushed to carrier strike groups centered on the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Theodore...
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On 13 January 2026, South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration quietly announced what amounts to a seismic shift in the global fighter market: the KF-21 Boramae had completed its flight test programme. Two months ahead of schedule. 1,600 sorties...
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The Pentagon is done talking about the missile gap — it is buying its way out. In a move that would have been unthinkable five years ago, the Department of Defense has signed framework agreements with four contractors to procure more than 10,000 low-cost cruise...
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Suspended by overhead cables inside a cavernous anechoic chamber, the MQ-28 Ghost Bat looked less like a combat aircraft and more like a museum exhibit frozen in mid-flight. But the data streaming off that motionless airframe told a story Boeing has been waiting years...
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America’s next earth-penetrating superweapon has a name. On June 1, the Air Force Materiel Command formally designated the Next Generation Penetrator as the GBU-76/B, posting a sources-sought notice that invited industry to line up behind a weapon designed to...
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Somewhere on a Russian military airfield, ground crews recently rolled out a freshly painted Beriev A-50U — the latest modernized airborne early warning aircraft to join the fleet, and a replacement Russia desperately needed. An image first shared on May 31 by the...
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The signs are supposed to be obvious. Slurred words at the gate. A stumble down the jet bridge. A voice that carries a little too far across the boarding area. Federal rules give airline staff one job in that moment: do not let that passenger on the plane. On May 26,...
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