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U.S. Should Stop Treating China’s Lunar Ambitions as a Race

Framing China’s lunar ambitions as a head‑to‑head race with the United States risks pushing Washington into reactionary policies that prioritize speed over sustainable strategy, international cooperation and durable cislunar governance. Policymakers should recalibrate rhetoric and planning to balance competition, collaboration and resilient capabilities.

2025-12-09T06:05:18.489844-08:00

AeroTime

Crash likely ends service of Russia’s last airworthy An‑22 heavy transport

2025-12-09T03:03:43.638191-08:00

Aviacionline

‘Cartagena maneuver’: Plus Ultra, Laser and Estelar restart non‑direct EU flights to bypass Venezuela air blockade

2025-12-07T18:23:51.729994-08:00

Space Policy Online

Former NASA chief tells Congress Artemis is 'doomed' and the US has 'lost a lot of time' — warns of losing Moon to China

2025-12-04T20:45:36.140539-08:00

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AirForceTimes

US Air Force seeks cloud-based, AI 'digital sandbox' to run wargames up to 10,000× real time The U.S. Air Force is developing a cloud-based, AI-powered "digital sandbox" to generate and run wargames and support force design, aiming to simulate scenarios up to 10,000 times faster than real time to accelerate analysis, doctrine development and capability trade-offs.

2025-12-09T14:46:20.850603-08:00

US Air Force seeks cloud-based, AI 'digital sandbox' to run wargames up to 10,000× real time

Stars and Stripes

U.S. Navy F/A-18s tracked flying over Gulf of Venezuela Public flight‑tracking sites recorded two U.S. Navy F/A‑18 fighter jets conducting a flight over the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday, a sortie described in reporting as a routine training mission. The movements were visible on open‑source trackers amid elevated U.S.–Venezuela tensions.

2025-12-09T13:48:48.924015-08:00

U.S. Navy F/A-18s tracked flying over Gulf of Venezuela

SpaceNews.com

U.S. Should Stop Treating China’s Lunar Ambitions as a Race Framing China’s lunar ambitions as a head‑to‑head race with the United States risks pushing Washington into reactionary policies that prioritize speed over sustainable strategy, international cooperation and durable cislunar governance. Policymakers should recalibrate rhetoric and planning to balance competition, collaboration and resilient capabilities.

2025-12-09T06:05:18.489844-08:00

U.S. Should Stop Treating China’s Lunar Ambitions as a Race

aircargoweek.com

Chapman Freeborn expands flexible air‑charter offering as trade lanes and e‑commerce shift air freight Facing shifting trade lanes, softer e‑commerce volumes and geopolitical disruptions that are reorienting global supply chains, Chapman Freeborn is expanding flexible air‑charter services and adapting its business model to capture diverted freight flows and mission‑centric, short‑notice demand as the market recalibrates.

2025-12-09T04:04:31.438932-08:00

Chapman Freeborn expands flexible air‑charter offering as trade lanes and e‑commerce shift air freight

AeroTime

Crash likely ends service of Russia’s last airworthy An‑22 heavy transport A Russian Antonov An‑22 heavy transport crashed during a post‑maintenance test flight near Ivanovo (about 250 km northeast of Moscow), killing all seven on board. Authorities say the aircraft — reportedly the last airworthy An‑22 — broke up in flight, likely ending the type's active service.

2025-12-09T03:03:43.638191-08:00

Crash likely ends service of Russia’s last airworthy An‑22 heavy transport

Reuters

South Korea scrambles fighters after nine Chinese, Russian warplanes enter KADIZ near Tsushima Nine Chinese and Russian military aircraft entered South Korea’s Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ) near Japan’s Tsushima Island and remained in the zone for about an hour on Tuesday. Seoul dispatched fighter jets to shadow the formation; authorities said sovereign airspace was not breached.

2025-12-08T23:21:23.334218-08:00

South Korea scrambles fighters after nine Chinese, Russian warplanes enter KADIZ near Tsushima

DVIDS / U.S. DoD

U.S. Navy recovers F/A-18F Super Hornet and MH‑60R Seahawk sunk off USS Nimitz in South China Sea On Dec. 5, 2025 the U.S. Navy recovered an F/A-18F Super Hornet and an MH‑60R Seahawk that sank in the South China Sea after separate October 26 crashes from USS Nimitz. Both aircraft went down within about 30 minutes; salvage teams retrieved wreckage to prevent compromise.

2025-12-08T20:33:56.491830-08:00

U.S. Navy recovers F/A-18F Super Hornet and MH‑60R Seahawk sunk off USS Nimitz in South China Sea

Aviation Week

Chinese Scientists Advance Research on Space‑Based Interceptors While Beijing publicly condemns the U.S. pursuit of space‑based missile interceptors as reckless, Chinese academic institutions are quietly researching similar space‑based interceptor concepts — signaling a dual narrative in which official diplomacy diverges from parallel technical exploration within China's research community.

2025-12-08T11:07:16.631922-08:00

Chinese Scientists Advance Research on Space‑Based Interceptors

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