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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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 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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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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Kratos says its TDI-J85 was drawn for a weapon like this before Boeing asked. What binds the program now is a 22,500-square-foot plant in Michigan and an order book nobody has sized.
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Xos's first Air Force contract is a prototype agreement for a deployable battery unit that charges electrified equipment without fixed infrastructure. The deliverable says where electrification is stuck.
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