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Its Landing Gear Does Not Even Retract: Why Cessna Built the SkyCourier in the 21st Century
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At the Air, Space & Cyber Conference in September 2026, Textron Aviation and Merlin unveiled a rather unusual version of the Cessna 408 SkyCourier. The ...

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One Aircraft Could Drop 28 Soldiers Behind Enemy Lines: How the C-47 Made Paratroopers One of the Symbols of World War II
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On the night of June 5–6, 1944, something was happening over the English Channel that would have seemed like military science fiction only twenty years ...

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Saab Put a Second Person Back in the Fighter: Why the Gripen F Needs an Extra Seat in the Age of AI and Drones
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On August 28, 2026, a new fighter took off from Saab’s airfield in Linköping. The flight lasted only 40 minutes. The aircraft did not demonstrate a new ...

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Gripen Finally Gets Its Long-Range Spear: Why Sweden Needed Taurus After 20 Years
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For more than two decades, this combination has existed in Saab promotional materials: the compact JAS 39 Gripen carrying two massive Taurus KEPD 350 cruise ...

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India Could Revive the Il-214: Why a Failed Project Has Suddenly Become Very Interesting for Russia Again
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Sometimes an aircraft project is abandoned because nobody needs the aircraft anymore. With the Il-214, almost the opposite happened. The transport aircraft ...

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The F-117 Was Retired 18 Years Ago. Why Is the U.S. Buying Explosives for It Again?
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The F-117 Nighthawk officially left U.S. Air Force combat service in the spring of 2008. Eighteen years have passed since then. The F-22 and F-35 have arrived, ...

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A 109-Meter Aircraft: When Will the Giant WindRunner Actually Take Flight?
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Throughout aviation history, giant transport aircraft have almost always been created to solve extraordinarily large logistical problems. The Antonov An-225 ...

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A $100 Million Fighter Against a Cheap Drone? Embraer Wants to Bring the Turboprop Back Into Air Defense
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Modern air defense has encountered a rather strange economic problem. It is capable of destroying extremely sophisticated targets — ballistic missiles, cruise ...

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The Fighter Is More Than Half a Century Old — Yet It Reached a U.S. Base: What Iran’s F-5 Attack Revealed
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Imagine a modern American military base in the Middle East. Around it is a network of radars, air-defense systems, airborne early-warning aircraft, fighters, ...

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The Last Days of the Warthog: Why the A-10 Will Keep Flying Even Though Its Era Is Already Over
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It was designed around a massive seven-barrel cannon and built to hunt Soviet tank armies in Europe. Instead, the A-10 Thunderbolt II spent nearly half a ...

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Hitler’s Flying Giant: Why Germany Built a 45-Ton Monster Aircraft
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At first glance, the Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant looked like one of the strangest aircraft ever built. Slow, enormous, and covered largely in fabric, it seemed ...

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India Closes the Door on the Su-57. But Has Russia Really Lost Its Biggest Fighter Market?
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New Delhi's decision to reject Russia's fifth-generation fighter is a major setback for Moscow's aerospace industry. Yet delays in India's own AMCA program ...

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