More than five years after The Black Vault filed a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request seeking a fresh review of the CIA’s historic KUBARK Counterintelligence…
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Date of discovery: July 26, 2026Location of sighting: Mars Source: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/03393/mcam/3393ML1015160341305084C00_DXXX.jpgGuys, this is a unexploded missile laying on the surface of Mars just meter from the…
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Date of discovery: July 27, 2026Location of discovery: In orbit between Jupiter and MarsSource: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA07881/PIA07881~orig.jpgI found a comet in the NASA index and I wanted to…
Read MoreOneworld carrier sees breakeven for the full-year in the face of $6 billion fuel headwind. American Airlines has become the latest US carrier to report a slump in second-quarter profits as the surge in fuel costs following the Iran conflict continues to hit airline financials The Oneworld carrier posted an operating profit of $446 million…
Pan American aircraft fatally sank after departing Puerto Rico in April 1952. Wreckage of a Douglas DC-4 which fatally ditched and sank in the Atlantic, while attempting a return to Puerto Rico nearly 75 years ago, has been discovered during a deep-sea search. Operated by Pan American World Airways, the four-engined aircraft (N88899) was located…
Cockpit crew’s licences suspended by Icelandic authority. Icelandic regulators have disciplined two pilots who carried out an unauthorised low pass in a Boeing 757-200 while conducting a scheduled flight from Frankfurt. The Icelandair aircraft was bound for Reykjavik on 11 April. But it descended from the normal altitude to pass over Vestmannaeyjar airport on the…
Modified twinjet recently joined up with RAF Typhoons for formation flight. The UK’s Excalibur flight test aircraft has completed the initial phase of a campaign following a second round of major airframe modifications made to the unique Boeing 757. Prepared in support of the UK’s Future Combat Air System programme for Team Tempest, the twinjet…
Output is due to reach seven annually by end of 2027. Airbus’s defence unit has an unannounced new buyer for its A330 multi-role tanker transport (MRTT), the company has disclosed. “We have an undisclosed customer – and we have more to come,” Airbus Defence & Space head of air power Jean-Brice Dumont revealed at the…
Sensor update brings “fifth-gen” capabilities into existing fleets. Elbit Systems is offering to provide operators of legacy fighters such as the Lockheed Martin F-16 with an “F-35-like” situational awareness and self-protection capability, with the company showcasing its technology at the Farnborough show. Named EO DAS (for electro-optical distributed aperture system), it “brings fifth-gen capabilities into…
The framework could see Embraer more than double the number of Gripen E/F fighters it currently plans to assemble. Swedish defence manufacturer Saab and Brazilian airframer Embraer are in talks to expand the scope of their partnership on the Gripen E/F fourth-generation fighter. Under a framework deal signed at the Farnborough air show on 21…
TB3-based platform is first output from LBA Systems joint venture with Baykar Technologies. LBA Systems has started building the first TB3-derived Astore Levante uncrewed air vehicles for the Italian air force, with the Leonardo-Baykar Technologies joint venture now declared fully operational. Revealing the milestone, Leonardo chief executive Lorenzo Mariaini says “the first two or three…
Chief executive Faury stresses importance of predictability as monthly aircraft output rises. Airbus has initiated measures to halve instances of quality problems in its production operation over the next year. Speaking during a briefing in London on 21 July, chief executive Guillaume Faure highlighted last year’s A320neo fuselage panel issue which, he says, “created a…
Deliveries of Italian-built jets in Block 20 standard will commence in 2030. Indonesia has ordered 12 Leonardo M-346F light fighter aircraft, firming a letter of intent signed in February. Deliveries are due to begin in 2030, with Jakarta taking the aircraft in the latest Block 20 standard. This features an active electronically scanned array radar,…
