AeroTime
• Stephen Pope
The U.S. Air Force has grounded its T-38 Talon training fleet following a crash in Alabama involving a jet assigned to Columbus Air Force Base. Both pilots ejected safely. Officials have not yet released their names or specified which squadron was operating the aircraft.
Reuters
• Mike Stone
By Reuters: Lockheed Martin broke ground on Thursday on an 87,000-square-foot Munitions Production Center at its Troy, Alabama campus, as part of a U.S. push to expand missile output and strengthen the defense industrial base.
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury has defended the use of European-made military equipment as Portugal prepares to launch a competition for a new fighter aircraft, with the Eurofighter Typhoon expected to compete against the Lockheed Martin F-35.
The War Zone
• The War Zone
By The War Zone: Special ops MH-47 Chinooks that could refuel other aircraft midair would give the Night Stalkers their own organic tanker capability. Special ops MH-47 Chinooks that could refuel other aircraft midair would give the Night Stalkers their own organic tanker capability.
AeroTime
• Stephen Pope
By AeroTime: The US Missile Defense Agency conducted a hypersonic flight test using Stratolaunch’s Talon-A3 vehicle and a modified Boeing 747-400.
FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
By FlightGlobal: Combination is described as the 'world's first unmanned AEW solution'. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has flown a company-owned MQ-9B remotely piloted aircraft for the first time carrying pod-housed airborne early warning (AEW) radar arrays produced by Saab.
The Aviationist
DefenseNews.com
• Michael Scanlon
By DefenseNews.com: The remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper was the workhorse in the U.S. air campaign against Iran, Air Force leaders told Congress on May 20, even as the service’s fiscal 2027 budget request still pours the bulk of aircraft dollars into crewed fighters.
DefenseNews.com
FlightGlobal
• Ryan Finnerty
By FlightGlobal: The potential option involves Special Operations Command completing modifications to bring in-production C-130Js to the MC-130J standard.
Vertical Mag
• FlySight Press Release
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
