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rocket planes

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plural of rocket plane

as in aerospace planes

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China holds a trump card in rare earths — critical minerals necessary for making many items, from smartphones to electric vehicles and fighter jets.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
In a series of Facebook posts, Romanian defense minister Radu-Dinel Miruţă said F-16 fighter jets destroyed a marine drone in the vicinity of the Neptun Deep gas project in the Black Sea on Thursday.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026

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First developed during the Cold War to counter American strategic bombers, the Tu-160 remains the largest and heaviest combat aircraft ever built, the fastest operational bomber in the world, and one of the most heavily armed aircraft ever placed into service.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026
Neither Diego Garcia nor Fairford, the key forward operating base for US strategic bombers in Europe, was used in last June’s one-time B-2 bomber strike on Iranian nuclear sites.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026

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In addition to the main event, there will also be a prerace show and flyovers of military aircraft, which swooped and boomed over the city during the July Fourth celebrations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Similar experiments have already shown that photons can be transmitted from aircraft to ground stations, pointing toward mobile and satellite-based quantum networks.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026

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