US Air Force bombers have left RAF Fairford for their home bases after six arrests in a British terror inquiry, over a threat Trump says is linked to Iran. The move protects the aircraft, but Britain keeps the base and an Iran-linked proxy threat that its own officials say was already active.
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Northrop's self-funded YFQ-48A completes its first flight entirely under autonomy
Northrop Grumman flew its uncrewed YFQ-48A Talon Blue from taxi to landing with no remote human intervention. Air Force buyers can now judge the jet's autonomy in flight, while the low-cost production Northrop promises is still a claim on paper.
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Former airmen Chijioke Timothy Odimegwu and Harafat Mogaji got a combined 189 months in federal prison for BEC scams that diverted a $1.68 million wire. Their scheme worked wherever a payer accepted new bank details on the strength of an email.
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British police arrested five men over a suspected terrorist plot at RAF Fairford, the airfield US bombers use to strike Iran. Reports split on a Tehran motive, while a UAE presidential adviser says Iran's attacks have made US bases more important to Gulf hosts.
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Washington's embassy urged Americans in Britain to exercise caution after police arrested five men near RAF Fairford on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act. Its warning covers US-linked organisations and gatherings in Britain, well beyond the Gloucestershire cordon.
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Pentagon task force to supply Cape Canaveral with new counter-drone capability, integrated with existing systems
Cape Canaveral's counter-drone capability will come from a Pentagon task force that selects and fields it, while the station supplies the integration and the shift crews it is still asking the Air Force to provide.
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The Air Force has until March 2027 to price a factory it closed in 2015
Restarting C-17 production begins with finding out what tooling survived, and the only public cost estimate for a stop-and-restart dates to 2006. The cheap alternative, better maintenance on 220 airframes, buys back a handful of jets.
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The Air Force cut its B-52 parts backlog from more than 450 shortages to about 160
Interesting Engineering reports that the North Star campaign made 40 percent more B-52s flyable by pulling supply, engineering and depot work into a single effort, on a fleet that is still about 76 airframes.
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Air Force secretary says the US has deployed 'on-orbit space control weapons'
Troy Meink made the disclosure at a conference in Maryland on Sept. 14. Since then the only quantified reaction on the record is a Live Science poll in which more than 280 self-selected readers voted.
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AVIC shows a fighter laser aiming system under 838 pounds beside an image of the J-36
An AVIC institute put a weight and a partly masked power figure on its fighter laser display in Beijing. The display masked the dynamic tracking accuracy, the figure that tells you whether the beam holds on a maneuvering missile.
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Army Corps awards $74.9 million for Whiteman's first B-21 building
Whiteman Air Force Base now has its first building specific to the B-21, a radio-frequency hangar sized for one aircraft at a time, and the same contractor already has the equivalent job under way at Ellsworth.
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Lockheed links two F-16 infrared pods to estimate range without switching on a radar
Two F-16s over Tucson flew Legion infrared pods wired together by a pre-production L3Harris link and combined their tracks to sharpen a range estimate. Lockheed Martin describes the effect as depth perception.
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GE runs the XA102 on one digital model its suppliers have to be able to read
GE Aerospace says the Air Force NGAP contender is its first engine defined by a machine-readable model from design through assembly, and it is now working with suppliers so they can use that same model for machining and inspection.
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Troy Meink said the US has fielded on-orbit space control weapons, the first American acknowledgement of the kind, though he gave no detail on the weapons or their targets, leaving the consequence in the UN argument over a ban.
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Army dentists want dental emergencies written into war-game casualty models
Army dental leaders argue in professional articles that most major exercises leave dental emergencies out of their casualty scenarios, even though such cases were 19% of treatment at hospitals near the front line in Iraq.
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Army, Navy, Air Force and SOCOM switch off the advertising ID on issued devices
The identifier that lets data brokers follow one handset from app to app is now disabled on government-issued phones at four US military organisations, after months of pressure from Senator Ron Wyden.
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Impossible Objects raises $40M to scale a carbon-fiber printer with five orders to date
The Series B, led by Inflection Equity, pays for more CBAM 25 units, deployments and service staff. Three of the four named recipients so far are research or university organisations, and the performance figures are the company's own.
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General Atomics aims Wildfire at the Air Force's $10 million cap for the Reaper's successor
The Massed Modular Aircraft solicitation pairs a roughly $10 million airframe price with an 8,000 nautical mile self-deploy and 2,800 pounds of payload. GA-ASI says its clean-sheet drone clears all of it years before fiscal 2031.
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Honeywell's magnetic navigation prototype flew four hours over the Pacific without GPS
Honeywell's sensor read the Earth's crust well enough to navigate an Embraer 170 home over open water, and the notable part is how little of the aircraft had to change. A civil version has no date yet.
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buildOne report1 publisher Incremental sheet forming cleared an airworthiness gate on a crewed C-17
Machina Labs formed a C-17 nose panel without dies and the Air Force flew it on July 30, 2026. What got approved was one article on one aircraft, and the cycle times being quoted start from a moment nobody names.
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