Code 7500: Bulgaria’s MiG-29 Scrambles

Code 7500: Bulgaria’s MiG-29 Scrambles

At 1:54pm on June 30, a Bulgarian MiG-29 lit its afterburners and clawed off the runway at Graf Ignatievo. Three minutes later it had formed up on the wing of a civilian Airbus A320 that had just transmitted the four digits every air-defence controller dreads:...
1,300 F-35s, a Pipeline Built for 800

1,300 F-35s, a Pipeline Built for 800

The Marine general who runs the F-35 program walked into a Senate hearing this week and said the quiet part out loud: the most expensive weapons program in history has outgrown the system built to keep it flying.It landed weeks after a Government Accountability Office...