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August 19, 2026
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Aviation Capital Group (ACG) has delivered the first of four Airbus A321neo aircraft to Wizz Air under a new sale-and-leaseback (SLB) agreement. The aircraft was delivered at the Airbus Delivery…
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Under the Defence Investment Plan, published on June 30, the UK Government will allocate an investment of £360 million to replace the…
Finnair is changing two positions on its Executive Board, with Arti Zeighami becoming Chief Digital Officer on August 19, 2026, and Kaarina Ståhlberg taking over as Senior Vice President and General…
A flight by US carrier Delta Air Lines from France to the US West Coast turned into an unusually long journey on 13 August 2026…
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The Indian Navy is set to strengthen its maritime surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities with the induction of two MQ-9B Sea Guardian High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) remotely piloted…
The US Army has selected the Robinson R66 as the proposed training helicopter for its Flight School Next (FSN) program at Fort Rucker, Alabama. The Army intends to award the contract to M1 Support…
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Japan appears to be enhancing its maritime strike capabilities, with the recent sighting of a new, long-range, stealthy, air-launched, anti-ship missile undergoing flight testing. A Mitsubishi F-2B…
The DJI Flip is back at $349 on Amazon, with the RC 2 bundle at $509, two weeks before Trump's 25% drone tariff takes effect on September 3.
Improper loading can cause an aircraft to fail to take off on time. But the load plan of the Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787 now shows: in the incident at Munich Airport, this…
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German charter airline Leav Aviation is launching scheduled connections between Cologne/Bonn Airport and destinations in Syria. The airline has recently begun operating the route…
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American Airlines is overhauling its short- and medium-haul fleet. All seats will get their own entertainment screens, while it also expands…
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The toll of the wildfires in Gironde and the Landes has quickly come to light. France is experiencing its worst wildfire season this year, with the largest…
"It's not enough to simply have technical training, to know how to program, to know how to manage these systems; something key is also needed, which is that capacity for tactical judgement, the…
The EU Space Act will shape the conditions for accessing this market, which is why its practical implications for operators and their advisers are of the first order…
Among them is Sergei Bashkov, director of Irz-Sviaz, a company the EU considers a systemically important manufacturer of navigation receivers for GPS systems and the…
Two ISS astronauts manage to remove a faulty antenna, but run out of time to install the replacement
A new spacewalk is scheduled for next Tuesday, and flight controllers are considering whether to include installation of the replacement antenna in that mission or whether, instead…
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The aircraft carrier Liaoning (CV-16) of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) was detected sailing in the Yellow Sea in recent days, in what appeared to be a brief…
The manufacturer places its total payload capacity at 1,746 kg, of which up to 1,361 kg corresponds to external loads. The platform can integrate electro-optical and infrared sensors…
In addition to precise individual strikes, the system supports swarm operations to simultaneously attack multiple targets or to "saturate", deliberately overloading the systems of…
The Ministry of Defence states that the system can cover more than 2,000 kilometres, a distance that allows it to operate at a depth far greater than that of the conventional battlefield. The…
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The United States has lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft since the start of the war with Iran, a figure that represents roughly a quarter of the US fleet…
However, by the end of July the Portuguese industrial sector itself acknowledged that it still had no detailed information on which specific companies would take part or what economic…
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The current launch pad, which will be redesignated LC-36A, will keep operating for the New Glenn 7x2 version, which has already flown three orbital missions…
These sessions take place on cabin mock-ups that realistically simulate the passenger and cargo cabin of large aircraft, such as the Airbus 310-304. Systems courses for the…
According to figures cited by the US outlet based on Pentagon data, 18 US servicemen have died since the start of the war, all of them outside the territory…
Mexico and the United States have signed a non-binding declaration of intent that will allow Mexico's National Defense Secretariat to access the US Army's digital marketplace…
Among them is Sergei Bashkov, director of Irz-Sviaz, a company considered by the EU to be a systemically important manufacturer of navigation receivers for GPS and…
A QF-16 can provide a target of similar size and performance to a fourth-generation fighter, but it is not designed to replicate the low-observability characteristics of…
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