Canada Receives First Two F-35s for Training as Gripen Debate Continues
Canada’s first two CF-35A fighters are now at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, giving Royal Canadian Air Force personnel…
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Retired Air Force KC-10 Tanker Leaves Arizona Boneyard Without Refueling Boom
A retired U.S. Air Force tanker has flown out of long-term storage, but it did so without the equipment that…
Lockheed Selected to Develop HIMARS Missile Targeting Ships 621 Miles Away
621 miles is the target range for a new U.S. Army missile that would launch from the familiar HIMARS mobile…
USS Colorado Will Start Regular Australian Submarine Rotations in Late 2027
The 7,800-ton USS Colorado will become the first U.S. nuclear-powered submarine assigned to a regular allied rotation through Australia beginning…
Lockheed Martin’s 850-Jet F-35 Agreement Still Needs Congress
At least 850 F-35 fighter jets over 10 years and a stated production pace of 156 aircraft annually form the…
3D-Printed Thermal Cloak Makes Complex Objects Disappear From Infrared Images
Heat entering the new composite does not take the direct route through its center. A precisely shaped aluminum lattice conducts…
Türkiye Shipwreck’s Hull Vanished, but 4,700-Year-Old Trade Jars Survived
A wooden trading vessel believed to have sunk off southern Türkiye as much as 4,700 years ago has effectively disappeared,…
REDMOD AI Finds Pancreatic Cancer Signs 475 Days Before Diagnosis
An artificial-intelligence system identified CT signatures associated with pancreatic cancer an average of 475 days before patients received a clinical…
Sole-Source Supplier Dispute Halts Boeing 777 Freighter Production for Nearly Two Months
A small Florida supplier became the stopping point for one of Boeing’s largest cargo-aircraft lines. A commercial dispute with Vaero,…
Boeing-Owned Spirit Defense Joins FQ-42 Drone Fighter Production
An advanced uncrewed fighter can pass flight tests and still face a more conventional constraint: how to build enough airframes…
Castelion Studies Whether F-16 Can Carry Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile
Castelion will study whether its Blackbeard hypersonic missile can be carried by the F-16, potentially extending the weapon to one…
BAE Cargo Drone Intercepts Several Attack Drones Without Landing to Reload
BAE Systems says its modified TRV-150 cargo drone intercepted several one-way attack drones during a single flight without landing to…
Air Force Awards $694 Million Hypersonic Missile Contract After Failures, Withholds Order Size
The U.S. Air Force calls its decision to produce the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon a “turning point,” but the public…
Air Force Gives Natilus $3.5 Million for Plane Between Cessna and C-130
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Natilus $3.5 million to advance KONA, an optionally piloted cargo aircraft intended to operate…
FAA Orders 1,987 Boeing 737 Tail Checks Over Control Hazard
Airlines wanted more time and flexibility, but the Federal Aviation Administration kept mandatory tail inspections on schedule for 1,987 U.S.-registered…
Air Force Plans $1.057 Billion F-47 Test Campus at Nellis
The U.S. Air Force plans to spend $1.057 billion on a test and maintenance campus for Boeing’s F-47 fighter at…
SpaceX Plans $40 Billion AI Chip Lease as Moon and Mars Funding Remains Unclear
$40 billion is the scale of SpaceX’s next computing commitment. The company has reached a binding commitment for an approximately…
USS Ronald Reagan Controls Tanker Drone From 2,100 Miles Away
More than 2,100 miles separated the sailors aboard USS Ronald Reagan from the MQ-25A Stingray they controlled. The aircraft was…