Daily Archives: Mar 13, 2026
India’s Rafale F4 Push: Speed, Technology, and Industrial Power
The weakness was exposed in May 2025. Under Operation Sindoor, the Indian Air Force's 36 Rafale jets carried out precision bombing deep into enemy lines, but the stress on its shallow fleet was palpable. With squadron numbers already reduced to 31 far short of the approved 42 and to...
Louisiana’s $3B Coastal Keystone Falls to Politics, Engineering Future Uncertain
Louisiana's scientists and coastal engineers have long warned that without major sediment diversions, the state's wetlands will continue to vanish into the Gulf of Mexico. Now that the abrupt cancellation of the $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, one of the nation's most ambitious environmental engineering projects, has become a...
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...
