AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
Thales UK says its RapidDestroyer radio-frequency weapon neutralized 80 drones in new trials, using an upgraded four-panel effector. The test result positions the system as a kinetic-free counter-UAS option aimed at improving effectiveness against high drone volumes while supporting scalable defensive deployments.
AeroTime
• Jean Carmela Lim
By AeroTime: How the RAAF keeps its eight C-17A Globemasters flying through smarter overhaul scheduling, engine preservation, and a spare parts pool shared by nine nations.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Ukraine rewrote the economics of conflict. When an adversary can field cheap drones by the thousand every month, you can’t answer them with million-dollar interceptors and exquisite platforms, you answer mass with mass.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: French Rafale jets deployed from Lithuania as part of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission shot down a drone over Latvia after air threat alerts were issued.
Politico
• Associated Press
By Politico: The airspace around the country’s main airfield in Tehran was closed after the Israeli attack.
Times of India
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The War Zone
• Tyler Rogoway
By The War Zone: Boeing's NGAD demonstrator's unique planform was hinted at on a patch, just like its progenitor, the Bird of Prey.
Aviation Week
• Steve Trimble
By Aviation Week: The U.S. government has approved a $1.5 billion export of five Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawks and related equipment to New Zealand.
FlightGlobal
New York Times
• Eric Schmitt, Riley Mellen
By New York Times: Scientists and U.S. military briefers have linked short, widespread interference incidents to Russia, revealing vulnerabilities in a technology essential to everyday society.
