Europe’s flagship fighter jet program might need a reset, or at least Airbus thinks so.
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), being spearheaded by France, Germany, and Spain, has been described as a “system of systems” built around a New Generation Weapon System.
FCAS Artist Photo Creation. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
FCAS Photo Artist Image. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
The plans would have crewed fighters, uncrewed remote carriers, and other platforms linked via a secure combat cloud.
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The next iteration of the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class fast attack submarine — Block VI — is designed to carry Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic weapons by 2028, operate Unmanned Underwater Vehicles like the Barracuda sea drone for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and hug the contours of the seafloor to evade enemy detection. The submarines will continue to use the Virginia Payload Module — the 80-foot hull insert that carries an additional 28 Tomahawk cruise missiles. Dr.
In November 2009, an Emirati pilot flying a French-built Mirage 2000 notionally shot down a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor during a joint wargame at Al Dhafra in the United Arab Emirates. The exercise included French Rafales and British Eurofighter Typhoons. The U.S. Air Force confirmed the single F-22 loss happened in close-quarters combat after the Raptor pilot made a tactical error. American pilots won six simulated dogfights against French Rafales and drew five more. The F-22 dominated almost every other engagement of the wargame.
Nobody asked Polaris to build a six-wheeled tactical vehicle that fits inside a helicopter, carries more payload than a Humvee, and can launch loitering munitions before the enemy figures out it left the ground. Then again, nobody had to; however, maybe there were some clues.
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Customers started showing up with problems their four-seater couldn’t solve, and Polaris answered the only way an engineering company knows how: Slap an extra axle on it.
The MRZR Alpha 6×6 is a pre-production prototype, technically speaking.
Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet pitched the F-55 Ferrari concept — a supercharged F-35 incorporating technology from the company’s failed sixth-generation fighter demonstrator — after losing the Next Generation Air Dominance program to Boeing’s F-47 in 2025. The F-35 took more than 20 years and over $1 trillion to develop, and its current readiness rating sits at barely 50%. The Technology Refresh-3 upgrade required for the full Block 4 modernization is years behind schedule.
Army Pfc. Mace Veit knew completing four of the Army’s most distinguished training courses in less than six months, including the rigors of Ranger School, would be tough.
Constant testing. Brutal fitness standards. Lack of sleep. He knew he was ready for all that.
What Veit didn’t expect was the growing number of funny looks he’d get from fellow soldiers as he moved from school to school.
A recently resurfaced Kremlin video shows Russian President Vladimir Putin coughing repeatedly and struggling through a recorded International Women’s Day speech in March 2026. The original upload was quickly removed and replaced with an edited version that cut the coughs out entirely. BBC producer Ben Tavener said multiple outlets believed the Kremlin accidentally uploaded the unedited footage. Speculation about Putin’s health has intensified since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Fire remains the most dangerous threat to a U.S. aircraft carrier — and the U.S. Navy’s newest, the USS Gerald R. Ford, just proved it. During the Operation Epic Fury campaign against Iran, a fire in the carrier’s laundry burned for 30 hours, displaced more than 600 sailors from their berthing racks, injured 3 directly, and caused as many as 200 cases of smoke inhalation. The carrier withdrew to Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Greece for repairs. The historical record runs deep: Japan lost all four of its aircraft carriers to fire at Midway in June 1942.
On May 20, 2026, Airbus Defence rolled out the latest Tranche 4 Eurofighter Typhoon for the German Air Force at its Manching facility in Bavaria. More than 600 Typhoons are now in service across 9 operators. The aircraft Britain, Germany, Italy, and Spain built after France walked out of the joint Future European Fighter Aircraft program in 1985 has accumulated genuine combat experience across Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and now Iran. An RAF FGR4 scored Britain’s first military air-to-air kill since the 1982 Falklands War over Syria in December 2021.
