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…
Read More
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 More
A military aircraft crashed in Moscow’s suburbs, with unconfirmed reports identifying it as an Su-57 Felon. A military aircraft crashed near Moscow, in Russia, on Jul. 23, 2026. Russian press and defense commentators identified the aircraft as an Su-57 of the Russian Aerospace Forces (RuAF), although this was not yet officially confirmed at the time…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Pentagon’s cost estimate for the Iran war has risen to $37.5 billion, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a congressional committee July 21—and without emergency supplemental funding, the military will have to “curtail” training to cover those costs, he added. Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine appeared before the…
The House of Representatives passed its version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization bill and a new reconciliation package with $60 billion for the Pentagon on July 22, but both the policy and funding legislation face uncertain futures in the Senate. Both pieces of legislation passed in largely party-line votes—the NDAA vote was 216-212 and…
The Air Force has stood up the first rapidly deployable units of Airmen designed to protect air bases in the Pacific or other potential hotspots from aerial attack. These point defense flights are typically made up of roughly 20 enlisted Airmen with aviation and battle management backgrounds and could protect permanent installations in the United…
General Atomics plans to pitch a brand new design for a low-cost, attritable drone to take on missions now carried out by its MQ-9 Reaper. In a July 21 statement to Air & Space Forces Magazine, General Atomics spokesman C. Mark Brinkley confirmed the company will propose a clean-sheet approach in response to a Pentagon…
