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• Clement Charpentreau
Sweden plans to send Gripen fighters to patrol areas near Finland’s border with Russia after Helsinki requested military support, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports. The deployment would expand Nordic air-policing cooperation amid heightened security concerns along Finland’s frontier.
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Sweden plans to send Gripen fighters to patrol areas near Finland’s border with Russia after Helsinki requested military support, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports. The deployment would expand Nordic air-policing cooperation amid heightened security concerns along Finland’s frontier.
MBDA says three Akeron anti-tank missiles seized from a French-registered van at the port of Bari in June 2026 were inert test units rather than live rounds. The claim addresses the status of the weapons involved in the Italian seizure, though no further details were provided.
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Air New Zealand reported a NZ$242 million after-tax loss for the year ended June 2026, its first loss since the pandemic-affected 2022 result. High fuel costs, Trent 1000 and PW1100G durability issues, elevated aviation-system charges and heavy maintenance spending weighed on profitability, despite fewer engine-related groundings.
Five drones crossed Moldovan airspace hours before Moldova’s Independence Day parade, with two dropping off radar inside the country, according to the report. The incident underscores the exposure of national airspace and major public events to unmanned-aircraft incursions, without establishing the drones’ origin or intent.
A year into Canada’s review of a planned purchase of as many as 88 F-35s, a provincial premier is questioning the logic of buying American combat aircraft amid President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs. The comments add political pressure to a procurement decision already under government reassessment.
Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said a reported 13th package of military assistance for Ukraine had not been adopted and did not exist as a formal act at the time of his statement. The clarification puts the reported €3 billion air-defense commitment in question.
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Qantas will begin phasing out its 10 Airbus A380s in 2028, roughly four years earlier than previously planned, as rising maintenance costs and incoming A350s and 787s drive long-haul fleet renewal. Older A330s will also gradually leave the fleet, while the airline reports rebounding Australia-U.S. demand.
A Polish institute recorded a sharp rise in deliberate satellite-navigation signal interference around Gdańsk during the first half of August, with significant disruption occurring on almost two-thirds of days. The findings point to sustained degradation of positioning and timing services along Poland’s northern coast.
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