DefenseNews.com
New Delhi is selling air defense missiles to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan as it seeks customers in a region long supplied by Russia and increasingly by China. The deals mark an effort to expand India’s defense-export presence in Central Asia.
The War Zone
• Joseph Trevithick
By The War Zone: The Coyote Block 2 is already combat proven, but more capable kamikaze drones have driven a need to fly faster and farther.
Reuters
• Sabine Siebold
By Reuters: Airbus has carried out the first test flight in Europe of a US-built drone that it hopes to team with Eurofighter jets, but without yet incorporating its European mission system, the CEO of its defence division said.
DefenseNews.com
• Military Times staff
By DefenseNews.com: China’s design to use a Laotian airport for joint military training has put much of Southeast Asia on guard about how far the PLA will extend its reach.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: Cummings Aerospace has demonstrated sequential launches of Hellhound S3 jet-powered attack drones, with a single operator supervising both flights.
Reuters
• Michael Holden
By Reuters: British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday that a suspected plot targeting the RAF Fairford air base in Britain was "highly likely" to have been coordinated in Iran, and almost certainly directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Reuters
By Reuters: Deliveries of some US weapons systems to Poland are set to be delayed, including interceptors for the Patriot air defence system, Polish army operational commander General Ireneusz Nowak said on Monday.
Vertical Mag
• Oliver Johnson
By Vertical Mag: The CEO of Airbus Helicopters says he would be open to partnering with Leonardo on NATO’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability program.
The Daily Debrief
One concise daily briefing across aviation, defense and space—key developments, corroborating sources, and the context leaders need to act.
SpaceWatch Global
• Christophe Bosquillon
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
Air Data News
• BAE Systems, Ricardo Meier
Space.com
• Mike Wall
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
Breaking Defense
• Breaking Defense
