- June 7th, 2026
The United States Navy and Marine Corps are confronting a growing challenge that military leaders increasingly view as a long-term threat to aviation readiness: retaining qualified pilots. While the naval services continue to operate one of the largest military aviation...
Few military aircraft have generated as much fascination, mythmaking, and debate as the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk. Emerging from one of the United States' most secretive Cold War programs, the angular jet became the world's first operational low-observable combat aircraft and...
While Russia’s Su-57 stealth fighter continues to dominate international headlines—often for its export struggles, limited production, and persistent questions about its maturity—another Russian combat aircraft has been fading from global attention almost entirely unnoticed. The MiG-35, once promoted as an...
A United States Air Force E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft was severely damaged during a reported Iranian strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, in an incident that, if confirmed, would mark the first combat...
In contemporary great-power competition, exposure rarely comes in the form of theft. It arrives through continuity, maintenance ecosystems, and long-term technical proximity. The United States is attempting to anchor the security architecture of the Indo-Pacific through its partnership with India,...
The Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier, the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, has suffered a technical breakdown while deployed in the North Atlantic, forcing urgent repairs in Norway and raising renewed questions about the reliability of Britain’s carrier fleet...
Growing concerns over the capacity of the United States’ nuclear shipbuilding industrial base have prompted lawmakers to seek assurances that the Navy’s proposed Trump-class nuclear-powered battleships will not further strain an already overburdened system responsible for constructing aircraft carriers and...
A new amendment to the House Armed Services Committee’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) could reshape the future of the U.S. Air Force’s iconic A-10C Thunderbolt II, ensuring the aircraft’s operational knowledge is preserved even as the...
The U.S. Air Force is moving to acquire a small number of unused MQ-9 Reaper drones from manufacturer General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. as it grapples with significant combat losses of the aircraft during sustained operations against Iran and Iranian-backed...
A grainy thermal video circulating online has ignited renewed debate in aviation circles over what may be a previously unseen advanced aircraft configuration potentially linked—at least in speculation—to Boeing’s next-generation fighter efforts under the U.S. Air Force’s NGAD (Next Generation...
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