Test Pilots Return From the Moon

Test Pilots Return From the Moon

At 8:07 PM Eastern Time on April 10, 2026, a blackened capsule trailing a wake of superheated plasma punched through Earth’s atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour and splashed into the Pacific Ocean forty miles off the coast of San Diego. Inside were four people who had...
Nuclear Reactors Are Coming to Air Force Bases

Nuclear Reactors Are Coming to Air Force Bases

In February 2026, a C-17 Globemaster III lifted a nuclear reactor off the tarmac at March Air Reserve Base in California and flew it to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The reactor, built by Valar Atomics, was small enough to fit inside a standard cargo bay. It was the...
Mystery Weapon Appears on Navy Destroyer

Mystery Weapon Appears on Navy Destroyer

A photograph taken at Pearl Harbor on March 29 showed something unusual on the aft deck of the USS Carl M. Levin (DDG-120): a launcher that nobody outside the Navy could immediately identify. Mounted between the destroyer’s port-side torpedo tubes and its rear Mk 41...
Portugal Bets on a Tiny Italian Trainer

Portugal Bets on a Tiny Italian Trainer

The next generation of Portuguese military pilots will learn to fly in an aircraft that weighs less than a family car. On April 9, 2026, Tecnam and Spanish aviation services provider World Aviation announced that the Portuguese Air Force has selected the Tecnam...