US Air Force C-17 carried CIA director on secret Moscow trip
A United States Air Force (USAF) Boeing C-17A Globemaster III was tracked flying from Riga International Airport (RIX)…
Romania records 25 drone incursions in 2026, nearly triple 2025 total
Romania recorded 25 unauthorized drone incursions into national airspace or territorial waters during 2026, against nine in the…
Montreal airport worker dies after being hit by aircraft
A worker was seriously injured after being struck by an aircraft on the apron at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport…
Saab renews Canadian Gripen production pitch as orders mount
Saab has given Canada a detailed plan for domestic Gripen E production, as Ottawa continues reviewing the size…
ICEYE sets up India arm, plans local radar satellite production
Finnish synthetic aperture radar (SAR) operator ICEYE announced on August 24, 2026, that it has formally established ICEYE…
Bulgaria neutralizes GPS jammer that suppressed Sofia Airport signals
Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security (DANS) said it located and neutralized a powerful jammer that was suppressing…
Archer and AEG plan downtown Los Angeles vertiport at L.A. LIVE
Archer Aviation and AEG announced on August 24, 2026, that they will develop a vertiport at L.A. LIVE,…
Indonesian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30 runs off runway at Makassar airport
An Indonesian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30 fighter left the paved surface of runway 13 at Sultan Hasanuddin International…
US Navy reveals long-range AIM-424 Malice missile that fits inside an F-35C
The US Navy published official specifications for the AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile (LRAAM) on August 22, 2026,…
UK military helicopter fleet sheds 27 aircraft in one year
The UK’s rotary-wing military aircraft inventory fell to 249 platforms as of April 1, 2026, down 27 from one year earlier, according to annual statistics published…
Russian Il-20 suspected of flying nearly 9 km into Finnish airspace
Finland’s Ministry of Defense suspects a Russian aircraft of violating Finnish airspace over the western Gulf of Finland…
Romanian Gepard tracks US Army drone in Poland counter-drone drill
During joint counter-drone training at Bemowo Piskie Training Area in Poland on August 18, 2026, US Army drone operators flew first-person-view aircraft for Romanian crews to…
Switzerland seeks $1.2B to reserve air defense production slots
On August 19, 2026, Switzerland’s Federal Council announced that it is to ask parliament for an additional 970 million Swiss francs (about $1.2 billion) to secure delivery slots…
Russian attacks damaged nearly one in three buildings in Kyiv
Russian attacks have damaged about 4,000 of Kyiv’s roughly 12,000 buildings, or nearly one in three, since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February…
Trump unveils granite helipad to protect lawn from new Marine One
US President Donald Trump led reporters onto the White House South Lawn on August 19, 2026, to show…
Romanian F-16 fires cannon at sea drone near Black Sea gas platform
Two Romanian Air Force F-16s were sent against a small maritime drone drifting inside Romania’s exclusive economic zone…
Castelion raises $1B to mass-produce Blackbeard hypersonic missiles
Castelion has raised $1 billion in Series C financing at a $13 billion valuation, capital the company said will enable it to reach…
US Air Force adds GE-Kratos F143 as second engine source for JASSM
The GEK800 turbofan, jointly developed by GE Aerospace and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, has been assigned the…