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• Joseph Dainty
China Airlines, Hebei Airlines, Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways selected MRO providers for multi-year support covering A350 landing gear, CFM56-7B engines, Boeing 787 components and 777 landing gear. HAECO also signed landing-gear agreements with ANA, JAL and Garuda Indonesia through 2030.
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China Airlines, Hebei Airlines, Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways selected MRO providers for multi-year support covering A350 landing gear, CFM56-7B engines, Boeing 787 components and 777 landing gear. HAECO also signed landing-gear agreements with ANA, JAL and Garuda Indonesia through 2030.
Flight-tracking data initially appeared to show a Safran Patroller operating near Poland’s border with Belarus. The aircraft was likely a crewed Stemme operated by Poland’s Border Guard, highlighting the risks of identifying military and security aircraft from incomplete or misclassified tracking data.
Safran Landing Systems has expanded its Singapore MRO center after a $22 million investment, increasing landing-gear overhaul capacity and adding nearly 100 jobs by 2030. Separately, ReGEN opened a components hub at Changi Airfreight Centre to improve used serviceable material access for Asia-Pacific airlines and MRO providers.
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Avio completes the second successful Vega C launch of 2026, deploying the European Space Agency’s FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C Earth-observation satellites from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The mission places two science and environmental-monitoring spacecraft into orbit and demonstrates continued Vega C operations.
France has begun Rafale F5 development with contracts for Dassault Aviation, Thales, MBDA France and Safran, targeting qualification around 2033. In parallel, Pegase 2026 is deploying Rafale fighters alongside A330 MRTT Phénix tankers and A400M transports to Alaska via the Arctic.
France has ordered the MBDA-Safran Thundart guided rocket system, designed to replace the Army’s LRU and reach 150 km, while Sweden and Croatia pursue different rocket-artillery solutions. Australia has also declared initial operational capability for the AGM-158C LRASM and AGM-158B JASSM-ER.
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MBDA and Safran won approval to supply France’s new long-range land-strike capability, while the U.S. expanded military connectivity with 21 PWSA Tranche-1 satellites. Separate awards include up to $4.84 billion for Northrop Grumman’s CIRCM system, $4.7 billion to L3Harris for PAC-3 MSE propulsion and $343.2 million for T56 sustainment.
India is seeking access to critical fighter-engine technology available to only a handful of countries, as Rolls-Royce and Safran vie to support its next-generation fighter program. The competition could center as much on technology access as on the engine itself.
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