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August 20, 2026
Joint venture with Eyeonix SA will create a foundation for local production capabilities in support of Greek, European, and U.S. defense priorities. ATHENS, Greece, AUGUST 21, 2026— AeroVironment…
Elroy Air has been awarded a $46 million, multi-year contract by the U.S. Army to develop an autonomous hybrid-electric vertical The post Elroy Air Secures $46 Million U.S. Army Contract for…
The first two of 66 F-16V Block 70 fighter jets Taiwan purchased from the United States departed the… The post Taiwan’s first two F-16V Block 70 jets depart US, expected to arrive soon appeared…
The advances the company has achieved in its robot dogs are backed by unwitting American funding, according to several researchers involved in this type of project and a…
At a meeting with Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov, Lockheed Martin acknowledged that delivery of the next eight F-16 fighters could slip into the s…
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Today, August 20, 2026 at 20:57, there will be a bright pass of SpaceX's Starlink satellites (a very close-together train). Often, looking up...
The Swift observatory will now re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, after a mission to boost it higher failed
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The Starlink 10-39 mission includes the 2,000th Starlink satellite to fly this year. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled at 11:38 a.m. EDT (1538 UTC).
A United Airlines pilot was caught on a hot mic cursing out the flight attendants towards the end of a 15-hour flight from Cape Town to Washington Dulles – perhaps he was feeling a little tired and…
SR-71 The SR-71, unofficially known as the “Blackbird,” is a long-range, advanced, strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft. During its operational…
TUI fly Nederland is ready to welcome the Boeing 737-10 into its fleet. The Dutch subsidiary of the TUI group plans to replace the six 737-8s it currently operates with six…
The US Air Force is preparing to buy several Chinese-made DJI drones for an unusual reason: to help protect one of America’s most sensitive military installations from the very drones it has spent…
Shortly before landing in Antalya, two Boeing 737s came significantly too close to each other. In the TUI Airways aircraft, the collision warning system sounded an alarm.
The mission to save NASA's sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year.
For more than 30 years, the Boeing 757 was one of the most familiar aircraft…
The two branches pay similar salaries but serve very different roles.
WestJet's narrow-body fleet is now uniform. The Canadian carrier announced it has completed the retrofit program for the Boeing 737s that were still single-class (economy)…
GENEVA — A United Airlines flight bound for the United States was forced to declare an emergency and turn back shortly after departure on Thursday morning. United Flight UA957, operated by a Boeing…
CEO John Rodgerson says Pratt & Whitney engine issues no longer keep the type grounded, although individual aircraft can still be unavailable for maintenance
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have decided to abandon the attempt to capture the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory space telescope and raise its orbit. The decision comes after…
After the publication, months ago, of a new National Security Strategy, as well as a Defense Strategy and a Defense Industrial Strategy, from the United…
Switzerland's stealth fighter fleet keeps taking shape. In the US the first Lockheed Martin F-35A is in final assembly, and production is also under way in Europe.
Amazon announced on Wednesday its plan to expand its aerial drone delivery network to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities. The initiative aims to let customers…
Iran saw around 100 of its civilian aircraft damaged or destroyed during the first 40 days of the war against the United States and Israel, the Transport Minister reported…
NASA’s decade table puts the umbral magnitude at 0.930, deeper than any other partial lunar eclipse between 2021 and 2030 except one. The 96 percent figure in circulation measures the Moon’s area…
A lawsuit against ExxonMobil over coastal damage has concluded, clearing the way for new usage rights over 526 km² on Pecan Island. Lousiana's governor Jeff Landry invites next…
Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) Editor’s Note: To watch John’s video version of this article, click here. A recent close encounter involving Marine One and a…
The U.S. Air Force is looking for a new family of drones to serve as aerial targets for test missions, ranging from cheap, expendable quadcopters to large, reusable aircraft that can mimic…
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Have you ever noticed a 777 enter the runway, then proceed to take off without stopping? Here is why that happens, and why sometimes it does not.
Performance Drone Works (PDW), which last week received a conditional loan commitment from the Defense Department to supercharge its capacity and capabilities for making key drone components…
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