Civil aviation news
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August 10, 2026
An explosive-laden drone found at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany on August 5 was used in an attempted attack on an Ukrainian Antonov Airlines cargo aircraft at the airport, according to… Continue…
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Rheinmetall is establishing an independent system integration hub in Germany for Boeing’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat CCA.
British defence-tech start-up Cambridge Aerospace has today closed its Series C funding round worth $300 million at a $3.4 billion valuation. With the…
Germany has found a new role for two old military aircraft that spent decades transporting troops and equipment. Retired from Luftwaffe service, the Transall C-160D aircraft are being…
The companies propose the Australian-developed aircraft as an accelerated platform for the Luftwaffe to develop its Collaborative Combat Aircraft capability before 2029
Representatives from Germany, Norway and Canada, along with the companies TKMS, KONGSBERG and Multiconsult, met in Kiel in late July for a first joint planning event for the 212CD program…
Rheinmetall said on August 10, 2026, that it is establishing an independent system integration capability for the Boeing MQ-28 Ghost… The post Rheinmetall sets up Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat integration…
The incident involving an explosive-laden unmanned aircraft at Leipzig/Halle Airport heightens alert over sabotage and espionage…
Boeing and Rheinmetall have stepped up their push for Germany to adopt collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) capabilities before 2029, with the MQ-28 Ghost Bat proposed as the platform for…
Companies propose Australian-developed aircraft as a fast-track platform for the Luftwaffe to develop Collaborative Combat Aircraft capabilities by 2029
India’s Ministry of Defence has told a parliamentary committee that it has started work on joining the French-led… The post India moves to join France’s FCAS after split with Germany appeared first…
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August 9, 2026
A large wildfire broke out on Saturday afternoon near the western Slovak town of Senica (German: Markt Senitz). Dozens of fire crews, a drone and a firefighting helicopter were deployed.
August 8, 2026
According to an Armed Forces spokesperson, the drones were detected around 10pm on Thursday at the base in Mechernich, North Rhine-Westphalia…
August 7, 2026
With the end of the summer holidays in the German states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Austrian motorway operator Asfinag is preparing for increased traffic on the…
European defense procurement agency OCCAR has tasked ARTEC GmbH, a joint venture between KNDS Deutschland and Rheinmetall, with manufacturing and delivering 69 more Schakal armored vehicles for the…
Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) handled a total of 11,920,851 passengers in the first half of 2026, 1.2 percent fewer than in the same period last year. While domestic traffic…
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Some (French) critics will say it's more German than Franco-German — and they'd be wrong! The best-selling Airbus Helicopters H145M continues its integration into…
Danish airline DAT is adjusting its flight times on the Saarbrücken–Berlin route from 31 August. The afternoon flight will be moved forward by one hour, so that the last…
Berlin Brandenburg Airport recorded a total of 2.46 million passengers in July 2026. This represents an increase of around 95,000 passengers, or four percent, compared to…
For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic, passenger numbers in Germany have fallen again in a first half of the year: 97.7 million passengers – 0.8 percent fewer than in the same period…
Since Jörg Mendel's departure at the end of January, the top post at Germany's highest aviation authority had been vacant. Alexander Schott, a lawyer, now takes over leadership of the LBA, which…
In Germany, the investigation into the explosive drone at Leipzig Airport is proceeding at full speed. Experts suspect the terror state Russia is behind the attempted bombing…
Sgt. Ryan Minton’s concerns about soldiers’ survival in the drone-dominated combat of the future initially led him to his basement, where he started tinkering with electronics he bought online. Now…
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August 6, 2026
In a more than discreet manner, the German naval company ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, TKMS, has delivered what is now the most modern and powerful submarine of the Israeli navy, the "Drakon", with…
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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo — A Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 carrying passengers from South Africa to Germany declared an inflight emergency on Thursday evening, forcing the crew to divert to…
<p>Police investigators work on the tarmac with a robot that is capable, amongst other things, of defusing explosives, near to Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Aug. 5, 2026…
Following the collapse of Skyhub PAD, the route to Munich is once again history. Now the Hungarian city of Pécs is trying to recover at least part of the subsidies from the insolvent…
Flughafen München GmbH relies on technology from Munich-based software company Celonis to manage its ground and logistics processes. As the operator of Germany's second-largest…
A drone suspected of carrying explosives was found near an Antonov Airlines An-124-100 at Leipzig/Halle Airport, in Germany, triggering a major…
Vini, the passenger brand of Flyvbird GmbH, is planning, with Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport, to trial a flight connection to the Berlin region starting October 2026. The…
