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The number is 10,000. Pentagon procurement officers, briefing reporters at the Department of War on 13 May 2026, used that number with the casual fluency of a Costco executive describing a quarterly shipment. Ten thousand low-cost cruise missiles in three years, plus...
Military Aviation, News
For 43 years, the radar discs that watched the skies above Europe wore American badges. Fourteen NATO Boeing E-3A Sentries, based at Geilenkirchen in Germany, flew under the NATO flag with mixed crews from 16 nations. They were one of the most visible symbols of...
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For a country that operates the most expensive combat aircraft ever built, Britain has spent the last decade flying it with surprisingly few things to drop. The Royal Air Force’s F-35B Lightning fleet — designed around a 25-year roadmap of cutting-edge British...
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For more than a decade, the KC-46 Pegasus has been the most expensive tanker the U.S. Air Force can’t quite use. Boeing has delivered roughly 90 of them. They cost the taxpayer about $200 million apiece. They are supposed to be the spine of American long-range...
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For most of the last twenty years, the MQ-9 Reaper was the single most-flown weapon in the U.S. Air Force inventory. From Afghanistan to Yemen, from Niger to Syria, the Reaper turned every minor military problem into a 24-hour-orbit problem solved by a Hellfire. Then...
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For roughly a decade, the U.S. Army has been quietly anxious about one math problem it could not solve: a Tomahawk cruise missile costs about $2 million a copy, the Pentagon’s stockpile keeps shrinking after every Middle East flare-up, and the Indo-Pacific...
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The shepherd noticed the helicopters first. In a stretch of the western Iraqi desert so empty that locals call it “the silence” — 180 kilometres southwest of Najaf, where the dunes give way to dry lake beds and not much else — he heard rotor blades where...
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It was supposed to be Europe’s answer to the F-35. A continental sixth-generation fighter, jointly built by France, Germany and Spain, flanked by drone wingmen and tied together by a “combat cloud” stretching from Brest to Bavaria. Six years and...
Aviation World, News
For 75 years, Italy had its own flag carrier. From the founding of Alitalia in 1946 to its 2021 liquidation, the airline was a national institution — and, for the last three decades of its life, a national embarrassment. Repeated state bailouts, repeated insolvencies,...
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Sun Country Airlines never expected to become an airline-industry case study. Founded in 1982 by laid-off Braniff pilots, it spent thirty years quietly running ski charters out of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Las Vegas package tours, and the occasional NCAA bowl-game ferry...
Aviation World, News
Most African airlines have spent the last decade trying to survive. Ethiopian Airlines has spent the last decade trying to outgrow every other airline on its continent — and then a few off it. The Addis Ababa-based carrier flies more international passenger-kilometres...
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The United States Marine Corps has flown the F/A-18 Hornet since 1983. Every Marine fighter pilot of the last four decades trained on it. The Corps used it over Iraq, over Afghanistan, over the Balkans. It was the only Marine fighter to fly from a U.S. Navy...
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