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New York Times • Cade Metz

3,200 Boeing Machinists Strike at St. Louis Fighter Jet Facilities

About 3,200 IAMAW members have gone on strike at Boeing’s St. Louis defense factories after rejecting the manufacturer’s latest four-year contract proposal. The walkout across facilities assembling F-15 and F/A-18 fighters, T-7A trainers and MQ-25 drones is the first IAMAW strike at Boeing in nearly three decades.

2025-08-03T13:04:38.429243-07:00

Reuters

Airbus H1 2025 Profit Surges 85% to €2.2 B, Engine Shortages Stall Deliveries

2025-07-30T09:27:52.262173-07:00

Reuters

Turkey, UK Sign Preliminary Eurofighter Typhoon Sale After Germany Lifts Export Veto

2025-07-23T01:59:26.566974-07:00

European Spaceflight

Dassault Pushes VORTEX Reusable Spaceplane into ESA Pipeline

2025-07-25T02:31:39.589078-07:00

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AeroTime

Airbus CEO Signals Endgame for Europe’s FCAS Sixth-Generation Fighter Airbus Defence & Space chief Michael Schoellhorn told German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that “we no longer see any reason to continue” Europe’s €100 billion Future Combat Air System programme, raising fresh doubts about the viability of the Franco-German-Spanish sixth-generation fighter.

2025-08-03T20:02:09.760440-07:00

Airbus CEO Signals Endgame for Europe’s FCAS Sixth-Generation Fighter

New York Times

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3,200 Boeing Machinists Strike at St. Louis Fighter Jet Facilities About 3,200 IAMAW members have gone on strike at Boeing’s St. Louis defense factories after rejecting the manufacturer’s latest four-year contract proposal. The walkout across facilities assembling F-15 and F/A-18 fighters, T-7A trainers and MQ-25 drones is the first IAMAW strike at Boeing in nearly three decades.

2025-08-03T13:04:38.429243-07:00

3,200 Boeing Machinists Strike at St. Louis Fighter Jet Facilities

Air Data News

Embraer Pursues Lithuanian Industrial Partnerships Ahead of C-390 Millennium Contract Embraer is deepening ties with Lithuania’s aerospace industry as it prepares to finalise a deal for three C-390 Millennium tactical transports. The Brazilian OEM is laying groundwork for technology transfer, maintenance and sustainment partnerships to boost its footprint in Europe, even before the contract is signed.

2025-08-01T11:32:31.842738-07:00

Embraer Pursues Lithuanian Industrial Partnerships Ahead of C-390 Millennium Contract

Associated Press

Putin announces serial production of new hypersonic missile, slated for Belarus deployment President Vladimir Putin confirmed that Russia has begun serial production of its newest intermediate-range hypersonic missile following preliminary combat trials. He said the system will soon be stationed in Belarus to bolster defenses against Ukrainian and Western-supplied strikes.

2025-08-01T06:09:00.130721-07:00

Putin announces serial production of new hypersonic missile, slated for Belarus deployment

SpaceNews.com

Albedo Secures Stage II NRO Contract to Expand Commercial Imaging Services Albedo has been awarded a Stage II contract by the US National Reconnaissance Office to scale its commercial Earth observation imagery and analytics for national security missions. Building on successful Phase I work, the award funds expanded low-Earth-orbit collection and advanced geospatial intelligence capabilities.

2025-08-01T03:11:44.163507-07:00

Albedo Secures Stage II NRO Contract to Expand Commercial Imaging Services

Satellite Evolution

Eycore and Kongsberg NanoAvionics to Launch 2026 Sovereign SAR Demonstrator for NATO Defence Polish space defence startup Eycore and Norway’s Kongsberg NanoAvionics have signed an MoU to integrate systems and launch a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite demonstrator into low Earth orbit in 2026. The mission aims to deliver sovereign all-weather ISR capabilities for NATO and allied defence customers.

2025-07-31T02:26:03.290446-07:00

Eycore and Kongsberg NanoAvionics to Launch 2026 Sovereign SAR Demonstrator for NATO Defence

The War Zone

US Navy Declares Runway-Overrun P-8A Poseidon a Total Loss After Saltwater Immersion The US Navy has declared one of its Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft a total loss after a runway overrun in Hawaii in late 2023 inflicted extensive structural damage, which was compounded by roughly two weeks of immersion in salt water, making repairs uneconomical.

2025-07-30T15:17:50.965432-07:00

US Navy Declares Runway-Overrun P-8A Poseidon a Total Loss After Saltwater Immersion

The War Zone

The West Is Missing Critical Weapons-Development Lessons from Ukraine An American defense investor in Ukraine argues that Western militaries and defense contractors risk falling behind by overlooking Kyiv’s grassroots weapon design and rapid iteration model. Ukraine’s battlefield-driven innovation ecosystem has accelerated munitions and drone development cycles from months to weeks, reshaping modern arms procurement.

2025-07-30T10:57:33.250999-07:00

The West Is Missing Critical Weapons-Development Lessons from Ukraine

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