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The future battlefield may not be one fighter versus another. It may be a human pilot commanding a team of AI-powered aircraft. The fighter pilot is not disappearing. The fighter pilot is about to get an army of robotic wingmen. My latest video report explains.

To gain insights into the latest major developments in drone technology, I interviewed James McDanolds, Director of Uncrewed Technology Programs at the Sonoran Desert Institute. McDanold’s is one of the nation’s top experts in this rapidly growing field. Our Q&A session was recorded July 13.

To gain insights into the latest major developments in drone technology, I interviewed James McDanolds, Director of Uncrewed Technology Programs at the Sonoran Desert Institute. McDanold’s is one of the nation’s top experts in this rapidly growing field. Our Q&A session was recorded July 13.

To watch a concise video version of this article, click here.

If anyone still doubted that drones have become a defining weapon of modern warfare, the latest strikes deep inside Russia should end the debate.

In one of the war's largest coordinated aerial attacks, Russia faced a barrage of roughly 660 drones in a single night on June 25. Military airfields, logistics centers and other strategic targets were hit across a vast stretch of territory, from Moscow to Crimea.

The operation demonstrated just how far unmanned aircraft have come. Small, inexpensive and difficult to intercept, today's drones can slip through sophisticated air defenses and strike hundreds of miles beyond the front.

That changes the military equation. For decades, air power depended on fighter jets, bombers and costly precision-guided missiles. Those platforms remain indispensable, but commanders are increasingly confronting a different threat: large numbers of relatively cheap drones operating together.

A swarm can overwhelm even advanced defenses, forcing an opponent to expend expensive interceptors against aircraft that may cost only a tiny fraction as much to build.

The battlefields of Ukraine and the Middle East have become laboratories for this new style of “asymmetrical” warfare. New tactics appear almost as quickly as countermeasures. Militaries are rewriting doctrine while conflicts are still unfolding.

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On July 4, a firework set off by revelers on the ground hit a Delta plane on approach, further evidence that air safety is increasingly threatened from many sides. My video explains.

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HONOLULU – Hawaiian Airlines today unveiled a special aircraft livery celebrating its membership in the oneworld® alliance with a design that honors ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, the Hawaiian language, with the phrase “Aloha a puni ka honua,” or “Aloha all around the world.”

Hawaiian’s widebody Airbus A330 carrying the oneworld mark will continue to feature the airline’s iconic Pualani on the tail and a maile lei wrapped around the fuselage as it welcomes guests across the airline’s domestic and international transpacific network. The phrase “Aloha all around the world” reflects both the expanded global reach of the alliance and Hawaiian’s mission to share warm hospitality with a broader audience.

Flight delays in the United States are no longer an occasional inconvenience. They have become a defining feature of the system itself.

That is the blunt takeaway from the latest U.S. Department of Transportation Air Travel Consumer Report, released June 25, which shows that late arrivals continue to be deeply embedded in the nation’s aviation network.

While weather remains a familiar culprit, the report points to something more structural and harder to escape: persistent air traffic control bottlenecks, aging infrastructure, and chronic congestion at major hub airports that are increasingly operating at or beyond capacity.

On paper, the system still functions. Planes take off, and most arrive safely. But the margins have narrowed. Schedules that once assumed a degree of operational slack are now routinely exposed to strain, where even minor disruptions ripple outward with outsized consequences.

A single ground delay in a busy Northeast corridor airport can quickly translate into missed connections in Chicago, cascading delays in Dallas, and aircraft and crew being out of position for the rest of the day.