FlightGlobal
• Ryan Finnerty
The US Air Force has signed an $18 million contract with Aevex for the production of an undisclosed number and type of Group 3-sized one-way attack drones. The award expands USAF inventory into the rapidly growing one-way attack drone category as procurement shifts further toward expendable UAS.
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: A delegation from the Royal Thai Air Force visited Sweden this week to review progress on Thailand’s Gripen E/F fighter acquisition program, including the start of assembly work on the country’s first aircraft at Saab’s facility in Linköping.
Breaking Defense
• Michael Marrow
By Breaking Defense: “It’s a lot of money. Some of us watch that money very carefully,” said Rep. Clay Higgins.
Aviacionline
• Gastón Dubois
By Aviacionline: The Argentine Air Force officially grounded its A-4AR Fightinghawk fleet this Thursday, closing a 30-year chapter of military aviation to focus all institutional resources on the incoming F-16M Fighting Falcon.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: Michael Guetlein, director of the Golden Dome program, speaks May 14, 2026, at the 'Inside the Dome' conference in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON — Gen.
FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
By FlightGlobal: Latin American operator will add fifth Spartan to its airlifter fleet. Peru has placed an order to take a fifth C-27J Spartan tactical transport, with its contract with Leonardo also marking the airframer’s 100th sold example of the twin-turboprop type.
Aviation Today
• Frank Wolfe
By Aviation Today: As the U.S. Air Force prepares to modify two B-52H bombers later this year for the Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP), the bomber directorate’s contracting office at Tinker AFB, Okla., […].
Aviation Today
• Frank Wolfe
By Aviation Today: The nearly decade-long program to develop and field two VC-25B Air Force One planes by Boeing has a price tag thus far of more than $4.2 billion, but the service estimates that the cost to modify the 747-8i formerly used by Qatar’s emir to be used as a VC-25B bridge aircraft is less than $400 million.
Financial Times
• George Hammond, Sylvia Pfeifer
