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Note the steel toe booties. It's important to avoid injuries from stubbing your toe while posing in front of a 360-kiloton nuclear bomb.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

New episode just posted (featuring @thedewline.bsky.social):

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

Here's the full transcript of President Trump's remarks today in Doha, revealing a proposed twin-engine F-55 variant of the F-35 and his thoughts on single-engine aircraft and stealth aircraft design, in general. Trump, Ortberg & Culp are there due to blockbuster Boeing/GE order by Qatar Airways.

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

President Donald Trump proposed new “super upgrade” programs for the Lockheed Martin F-35 and F-22 fighters during a May 15 press conference in Doha, Qatar. aviationweek.com/defense/airc... via @thedewline.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Here's the transcript, for those interested.

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A U.S. Navy flight test announcement revealed work is underway to revive a decades-old concept to miniaturize missiles by combining an air-breathing ramjet with a solid fuel rocket. aviationweek.com/defense/miss... via @thedewline.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Northrop says higher cost reflects "a manufacturing process change to enable accelerated production ramp, and increased general procurement costs" aviationweek.com/defense/airc... via @thedewline.bsky.social

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Ukraine’s long-suffering aerospace giants look to Europe to break free from Russian orbit kyivindependent.com/ukraines-lon...

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They’re talking about mining manganese modules off the Pacific floor again. Maybe it’s time for the CIA to dust off Project Azorian plans? Elon Musk could reprise the role of the crazy investor played by Howard Hughes. Any Russian or Chinese subs sink recently? www.ft.com/content/2205...

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

I love an aircraft model with a tail number inspired by an ‘80s pop song. Behold the UH-72 model on the Airbus booth at SeaAirSpace this week.

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The U.S. Air Force starts looking what comes after LAIRCM as it seeks a new countermeasure system to defeat a range of IR-guided missiles and air vehicles targeting fleets of large fixed-wing transports, special mission aircraft etc aviationweek.com/defense/miss... via @thedewline.bsky.social

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

MLB.tv will never be forgiven for today.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

The Swiss population doesn’t want to buy the F35 anymore, given everything that’s going on in Trump’s US. In 2020, a 50,1% majority had voted for the acquisition in a referendum. www.watson.ch/schweiz/wirt...

submitted 73 days ago • 14 comments

Interior gives me EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle vibes.

submitted 73 days ago • 4 comments

An >80% Pk of older RF and IR missiles versus Shahed drones and Russian cruise missiles is a helpful data point.

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RAAF to put Boeing's MQ-28 Ghost Bat through its paces this year to define its path forward on CCAs aviationweek.com/defense/airc...

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Podcast: NGAD Win Puts Boeing Back in the Game With The F-47 aviationweek.com/podcasts/che... via @thedewline.bsky.social and Matt Jouppi

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

The last clean-sheet fighter design that entered service under the Boeing brand was this baby. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_...

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

New episode just posted (featuring @thedewline.bsky.social):

submitted 79 days ago • 14 comments

Waited about 13 years to write this story. aviationweek.com/defense/airc...

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An update on the war following a recent trip. The situation has improved compared with Fall 2024. Russian offensive momentum slowed significantly over the winter, though it is premature to claim that the front has stabilized, especially following AFU withdrawal in Kursk. /1

submitted 79 days ago • 12 comments

NGAD decision comes later today … stay tuned.

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

A reminder for people who can’t keep all the acronyms straight

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Can the ALQ-167 be a roar-ing success on larger platforms? aviationweek.com/defense/sens... via @thedewline.bsky.social

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a weird year when I’m genuinely interested in the results of a parliamentary election in Greenland.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

On F-35 fears, I get it - there is real dependency. But if all your targeting capacity, BLOS comms, penetrating/orbital ISR and the munitions you assume you’d fight with in a war are US-provided; then dependency on the US for MDFs and ALIS/ODIN for F-35 isn’t your main problem.

submitted 90 days ago • 15 comments

Ça devient un classique ce combo Rafale Ariane 6

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Don't laugh. I hear the Chinese air force is working on a five-seater. sam.gov/opp/318f202a...

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"In a heavily contested EW environment, at the front-end of power projection efforts over great distances where each available airframe and weapon counts for a huge amount, there is likely to be outsized value in having even a relatively small number of NGAD or J-36-style crewed combat aircraft..."

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This is bad

submitted 95 days ago • 26 comments

The Mach Industries concept envisions a transformation in the striking power of the Army’s company or battalion-sized maneuver units. aviationweek.com/defense/miss... via @thedewline.bsky.social

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Von der Leyen has just announced the Commission's "Rearm Europe" plan. The most important parts target national fiscal space: The Commission will activate the national escape clauses in the fiscal rules and put a new loans-based instrument on the table. Here is what it means:

submitted 96 days ago • 8 comments

The lady behind me in the boarding line brought a bag of Cinnabon rolls on board and gave them to the airline crew just to be nice. She was already in first class. I’m recording it here to slightly offset all the videos of misbehaving passengers and callous crew.

submitted 96 days ago • 13 comments

EPAWS 2.0 breaks cover (sort of) aviationweek.com/defense/sens... via @thedewline.bsky.social

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Random discovery in Ohio today.

submitted 103 days ago • 11 comments