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A Boeing KC-46 Pegasus Boom Jammed in the Receptacle of an F-22 Raptor 100 Miles Off Virginia on July 8, 2025, Struck the Tanker After the Aircraft Separated, and Broke Off Into the Atlantic. The Air Force Put the Damage at $9,980,000.
5+ hour ago (684+ words) On May 12 the Air Force and Boeing announced a readiness plan with an unusual first item: five early-production KC-46s that were not due in operational service until 2031 will instead be broken up for spare parts and test support. The Air…...
China Bolted an Electromagnetic Railgun to the Bow of a Type 072III Landing Ship in December 2017 and Has Kept It at Sea Ever Since. The US Navy Spent About $500,000,000 Over 15 Years, Never Got Its Gun to Sea at All, and Cancelled the Program in July 2021.
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1350+ words) The American railgun needed a new barrel after about two dozen shots. Chinese researchers claim 120 consecutive rounds without a failure. That one number is the whole argument....
France and Germany Launched FCAS in 2017 to Field a €100,000,000,000 Sixth-Generation Fighter Like the F-47 NGAD by 2040. They Killed the Aircraft in June 2026 Because Dassault and Airbus Could Never Agree on Who Was in Charge.
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (497+ words) France needed a carrier-capable jet that could carry its nuclear deterrent. Germany has neither a carrier nor an independent deterrent. The companies were arguing about two different aircraft. That was the end of FCAS...
General Dynamics Is Delivering All 250 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams Tanks to Poland in About 24 Months. Warsaw Ordered Them for $4,750,000,000 Along With 17 Bridge Layers and 26 Recovery Vehicles.
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (724+ words) General Dynamics Land Systems will finish delivery of the M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks ordered by Poland just two years ago, shipping all 250 Abrams off to Warsaw in just 24 months. Now one of NATO’s biggest defense spenders, Poland ordered the tanks…...
Japan's Electromagnetic Railgun Has Fired More Than 100 Shots Without Replacing Its Rails. The US Navy Spent About $500,000,000 on Its Own Railgun and Shut the Program Down in 2021.
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (709+ words) At times, the electromagnetic railgun has looked like the future of naval warfare. Replacing gunpowder and rocket propulsion with electrical currents that generate magnetic forces sufficient to accelerate a projectile down two conductive rails, the railgun promised to offer so…...
A Laser Shot Costs a Few Dollars. The US Navy Estimates the First Real Shipboard Laser Program Would Cost About $1,000,000,000 Before a Single Destroyer Is Fitted With One.
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (730+ words) The Navy’s reasons for pursuing laser weaponry are obvious. Conventional air defense systems rely on expensive physical ammunition. For example, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer can carry roughly 90–96 missiles in its Vertical Launch System (VLS) cells. Once those missiles are depleted,…...
The Government Accountability Office Reviewed All 13 Programs in the US Air Force's $21,000,000,000 B-52 Modernization and Found 10 of Them in Trouble. The Engine Replacement Went From $3,000,000,000 to $15,400,000,000.
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (756+ words) It is the oldest bomber in the United States Air Force, and it is set to keep flying into the middle of this century — and potentially even beyond. The B-52 Stratofortress, the workhorse of the United States nuclear deterrent against…...
'We Are Not Effectively Allowed to Do Much at All With the Airplane': A Ukrainian Defense Executive on the F-16, and Why Ukraine's Industry Would Rather Have Sweden's JAS 39 Gripen
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (885+ words) As of today, the Ukrainian Air Force (PSU) operates two Western, 4th-generation fighter aircraft. These are the US-made F-16 and the French Dassault Mirage 2000. Both platforms are used models donated to Ukraine, with Belgium set to provide another seven F-16s by the…...
Turkey Was Thrown Out of the F-35 Program in 2019 and Built Its Own Fifth-Generation Fighter. The Kaan Flies on 2 American General Electric F110 Engines Producing Roughly 29,000 Pounds of Thrust Each.
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (395+ words) Turkey built the Kaan to end its dependence on Washington. It flies on 2 American GE F110 engines, and every one Turkey wants to export needs US government approval....
Trump Posted a Map With the American Flag Over All of Canada. The US and Canada Have 3 Border Disputes They Never Settled, Because They Trusted Each Other Enough Not To.
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (1209+ words) The US and Canada have 3 unsettled maritime disputes: the Beaufort Sea, the Northwest Passage, and a rock in the Bay of Fundy. None was ever resolved, and none had to be. In 1988 Washington simply agreed to ask before sending icebreakers…...