F-16V Block 70

Peru Abandoned Gripen for F-16 Block 70 as Political Collapse, Impeachment Fallout, and US Strategic Pressure Reshaped Its Fighter Choice

Peru’s decision to abandon the Saab Gripen E in favour of the Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 represents one of the most consequential fighter procurement reversals in modern Latin American defence history. What began as a technically grounded, cost-conscious modernisation...
Avro Arrow

Was Canada’s Indigenous Fighter Jet Sabotaged by the US and Secretly Smuggled to Britain? The Avro Arrow Mystery Revisited

By any measure, Canada’s long and tortured decision to buy the F-35 fighter jet has become more than a procurement dispute. It has turned into a national reckoning—one that has dragged a 66-year-old wound back into the open and reignited...
US Navy AIM-174B air-launched missile

US Navy’s AIM-174B Emerges as Counter to China’s PL-15 and PL-17 in Expanding US–China Long-Range Air Battle Over Indo-Pacific

The United States Navy’s public unveiling of the AIM-174B ultra–beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 exercise marked a rare and deliberate disclosure of a capability normally kept shrouded in ambiguity. Far from a routine weapons...
SSN-AUKUS

Australia’s $368 Billion AUKUS Bet in Doubt: With Nuclear Submarines Nowhere in Sight, Can B-2 Bombers Step In to Counter China?

More than four years after the AUKUS security pact was unveiled with fanfare, serious doubts are deepening in Australia over whether its most ambitious promise — nuclear-powered submarines — can ever be delivered as planned. While the United States and...
F-47

Boeing F-47 Gamble: How Trump’s NGAD Fighter Award Gave Crisis-Hit Aerospace Giant a Lifeline-And Sparked Deep Fears Over America’s Sixth-Generation Air Superiority

In March 2025, just weeks into his second presidency, US President Donald Trump handed Boeing the most consequential military aviation contract of the decade: the engineering and manufacturing development deal for the crewed sixth-generation fighter under the US Air Force’s...
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Should Testify Before US Congress as New Epstein Files and Images Rekindle Scrutiny

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Should Testify Before US Congress as New Epstein Files and Images Rekindle Scrutiny

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should be prepared to testify before the US Congress about his past association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that any investigation must put victims first. Speaking to reporters, Starmer...
US Judge Orders Release of 5-Year-Old Boy and Father from Texas Detention- Condemns “Cruelty” of Immigration Policy

US Judge Orders Release of 5-Year-Old Boy and Father from Texas Detention, Condemns “Cruelty” of Immigration Policy

A U.S. federal judge has ordered the release of a five-year-old boy and his father from a Texas immigration detention centre, sharply criticizing the government’s handling of their case as a manifestation of “the perfidious lust for unbridled power.” The...
US Coast Guard

Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Crew After Fishing Vessel Sinks Off Massachusetts

The search for missing crewmembers from a commercial fishing vessel that sank off the coast of Massachusetts has been suspended, the US Coast Guard said on Saturday, bringing a somber pause to a multi-day rescue operation that gripped the New...
Pentagon

Mystery Box Vending Machine Briefly Appears Inside Pentagon, Prompting Review Over Gambling-Like Concerns

A brightly colored vending machine dispensing collectible “mystery boxes” made a brief and unusual appearance inside the Pentagon late last year, raising questions about consumer protections, gambling-like mechanics, and the appropriateness of chance-based retail inside the nerve center of the...
Pentagon CTO Selects Six Defense Technology Experts to Drive Research and Deployment Across Six Critical Tech Areas

Pentagon CTO Selects Six Defense Technology Experts to Drive Research and Deployment Across Six Critical Tech Areas

The Pentagon has announced the officials who will lead research into its six top “Critical Technology Areas” (CTAs), two months after Defense Department Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael streamlined the list from 14 to just six priorities. The newly appointed...
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