Daily Archives: Dec 17, 2025
F‑47: Stealth, Speed and AI to Redefine Air Combat
Few planes have ever vowed a leap so deep that it might redefine the geometry of air warfare itself. Boeing's F‑47, the United States Air Force's first combat sixth‑generation fighter, is being designed to do so bundling profound stealth, Mach 2‑plus speed, and AI‑led control of autonomous swarms of...
53 Minutes on Venus: How Venera 9 Defied a Planet Built...
"Venus is a planet intended to break machines," planetary scientist Colin Wilson once claimed, and in October 1975 the Soviet Union showed just how much one could design before nature reasserts itself. Venera 9, the first to transmit pictures from the surface on Venus, survived only 53 minutes in...
Largest U.S.-Allied Air and Space War Drill in Pacific Since Cold...
The thread of thread measure U.S. Space Force and Air Force exercise ever held in the Pacific or post-Cold War was hosted this summer, 3,000 miles of sea and over 12,000 soldiers, 500 planes, and seven allied nations. "No shock, we tested the system to its limits by bringing...
