July 2026

Type 212CD German Submarine Industry Handout Photo

Aerospace & Defense

Canada’s Type 212CD Submarine Purchase from Germany Was Correct. Now Ottawa Needs to Decide What to Do With Them

Canada has finally chosen a submarine matched to the three oceans and opening Arctic it has to defend. The decision is sound. But a...

Andrew LathamJuly 8, 2026

A U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle II assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, flies a training mission over southeast United States, March 23, 2026. The 96th Test Wing and 53rd Wing perform developmental and operational test series on the platform including next-generation survivability, radars, sensors and networking capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Blake Wiles)

Aerospace & Defense

‘There’s Nothing Like It’: The Air Force’s Newest Fighter Looks Exactly Like a 1970s F-15. Almost Everything Inside It Is New

Park the Air Force's newest fighter beside one built in the 1980s and you cannot tell them apart. That is exactly the misunderstanding. Beneath...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 7, 2026

A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft takes off at a base in the Middle East, April 28, 2026. The F-15 is an all-weather, extremely maneuverable, tactical fighter designed to permit the Air Force to gain and maintain air supremacy over the battlefield. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Nathan Lipscomb)

Aerospace & Defense

The U.S. Navy Almost Bought an Aircraft Carrier Version of the F-15 Instead of the F-14. One Missile Killed the Idea

The F-15N Sea Eagle was faster, nimbler, and cheaper to run than the Tomcat. It couldn't carry the one weapon the Navy actually needed.

Brandon WeichertJuly 7, 2026

This composite image, from NASA's Galileo and Mars Global Survey orbiters, of Earth and Mars was created to allow viewers to gain a better understanding of the relative sizes of the two planets.

Space and Technology

Mars once had rivers, lakes, and possibly oceans, and it lost all of them for one reason — its molten core cooled, its magnetic field died, and the solar wind stripped the planet’s air into space.

Mars wasn't always frozen and barren. Billions of years ago it had flowing rivers, standing lakes, and possibly oceans. It lost all of it...

Harrison KassJuly 7, 2026

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer prepares to refuel behind a KC-135 Stratotanker during a bomber air demonstration over the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility Oct. 23, 2025. The demonstration showcased Southern Command’s ability to quickly mobilize and enable the rapid establishment of credible, combat-ready forces with effective and overwhelming force.(U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Daniel Harrell)

Aerospace & Defense

Airpower Did Not Fail in Iran — Simplistic Thinking Did

Retired Lt. Gen. David Deptula rebuts the argument that Operation Epic Fury proved air power's limits, calling it a failure of "land-centric thinking," not...

David DeptulaJuly 7, 2026

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Russia’s Biggest Oil Refinery Just Went Dark After a Ukrainian Drone Struck It Deep in Siberia — and Kilometer-Long Gas Lines Followed

A single Ukrainian drone forced Russia's largest refinery, in Omsk, to halt operations, knocking out units that make roughly 75 percent of its output...

Reuben JohnsonJuly 7, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

America’s B-1B Bombers Just Got a Ship-Killing Missile — and China Must Wonder if a Day One Strike on Its Navy Is Now in the Cards

The Air Force validated the AGM-158C LRASM on the B-1B Lancer at Dyess Air Force Base, giving the Cold War-era bomber a ship-killing role...

Brent M. EastwoodJuly 7, 2026

U.S. Air Force Maj. Sean “Rambo” Loughlin, pilot of the F-35A Demonstration Team, performs aerial maneuvers at the Luke Days Airshow at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, March 21, 2026. The team travels worldwide to showcase the power and capabilities of the U.S. Air Force’s most advanced fifth-generation fighter and its Airmen. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Rupiper)

Aerospace & Defense

The Air Force Already Cannot Finish the F-35 Upgrade It Paid For. Now, It Is Being Asked to Fund Three More Stealth Programs at Once

Lockheed Martin is pitching a "fifth-generation-plus" F-35 packed with sixth-generation technology — roughly 80 percent of a sixth-gen fighter at half the cost. But...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 7, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

F-47 NGAD: A Tailless Aircraft Was Photographed Over Area 51 at Night — and It’s Probably America’s Next Fighter

The grainy photos show a tailless shape with canards slipping through the Nevada night, and the internet reached for aliens. Aviation experts reached for...

Brandon WeichertJuly 7, 2026

Space and Technology

In January 2005 a European probe named Huygens fell for two and a half hours through the orange haze of Titan and landed on a plain of ice — the most distant touchdown in history, and no spacecraft has ever gone back.

Most probes orbit worlds or fly past them. In January 2005, Europe's Huygens did something far rarer: it landed. Carried across the solar system...

Harrison KassJuly 7, 2026

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Aerospace & Defense

Canada’s Type 212CD Submarine Purchase from Germany Was Correct. Now Ottawa Needs to Decide What to Do With Them

Aerospace & Defense

‘There’s Nothing Like It’: The Air Force’s Newest Fighter Looks Exactly Like a 1970s F-15. Almost Everything Inside It Is New

Aerospace & Defense

The U.S. Navy Almost Bought an Aircraft Carrier Version of the F-15 Instead of the F-14. One Missile Killed the Idea

Space and Technology

Mars once had rivers, lakes, and possibly oceans, and it lost all of them for one reason — its molten core cooled, its magnetic field died, and the solar wind stripped the planet’s air into space.

Aerospace & Defense

Airpower Did Not Fail in Iran — Simplistic Thinking Did

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Russia’s Biggest Oil Refinery Just Went Dark After a Ukrainian Drone Struck It Deep in Siberia — and Kilometer-Long Gas Lines Followed

Aerospace & Defense

America’s B-1B Bombers Just Got a Ship-Killing Missile — and China Must Wonder if a Day One Strike on Its Navy Is Now in the Cards

Aerospace & Defense

The Air Force Already Cannot Finish the F-35 Upgrade It Paid For. Now, It Is Being Asked to Fund Three More Stealth Programs at Once

Aerospace & Defense

F-47 NGAD: A Tailless Aircraft Was Photographed Over Area 51 at Night — and It’s Probably America’s Next Fighter

Space and Technology

In January 2005 a European probe named Huygens fell for two and a half hours through the orange haze of Titan and landed on a plain of ice — the most distant touchdown in history, and no spacecraft has ever gone back.

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