politico.eu
• Milena Wälde
Austria has barred U.S. military aircraft from its airspace for operations linked to Iran, invoking a national neutrality law that forbids flights tied to ongoing conflicts. Vienna says the measure legally restricts overflights and further narrows European transit and basing options for U.S. military movements.
Aviation Today
By Aviation Today: The Army’s SkyFoundry initiative to manufacture thousands of its own cheap drones on a monthly basis has recently “evolved,” with an official telling sister publication Defense Daily the program is “100 […].
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: Embraer will display the KC-390 Millennium and the A-29 Super Tucano at FIDAE 2026, Latin America’s main aerospace exhibition, scheduled for April 7-12.
Aviation Today
• Frank Wolfe
By Aviation Today: A “Talon IQ” Model 437 aircraft by Northrop Grumman‘s Scaled Composites has flown a mission autonomy test flight using the company’s Prism software and Hivemind software by Shield AI, the companies […].
Reuters
By Reuters: Russia's Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, one of country's largest export gateways, lost at least 40% of its storage facilities in Ukrainian drone attacks last month, U.S.
FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
By FlightGlobal: The three-nation Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) is moving into its next phase of activity, following the award of a contract worth £686 million ($904 million).
FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
By FlightGlobal: France and the UK are to launch study work on a joint successor to the MBDA Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile currently employed by their respective fleets of Eurofighter Typhoons and Dassault Aviation Rafales.
Vertical Mag
By Vertical Mag: The company announced it has been awarded a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by the U.S. Army to advance development of hydrogen fuel cell electric propulsion system for helicopters and cargo drones.
The War Zone
• Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick
