Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
The German Air Force has received its 53rd (and final) Airbus Defence and Space A400M Atlas, closing out Germany’s ordered batch more than a decade after the first aircraft entered service in 2014. The deliveries were managed under the OCCAR multilateral program.
The War Zone
• Joseph Trevithick
By The War Zone: Collaborative Combat Aircraft will "bridge" the Marines to a family of new capabilities that could include a sixth-generation fighter.
Breaking Defense
• General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
By Breaking Defense: The MQ-9B is uniquely suited to meet the challenges of modern conflict.
Reuters
• Gianluca Lo Nostro, Mateusz Rabiega
By Reuters: France and Poland will build a telecommunications satellite for the Polish military, the companies involved in the project said on Monday, as Paris and Warsaw strengthen their economic and defence ties.
Breaking Defense
• Carley Welch
By Breaking Defense: After the recent FY27 budget request drastically cut helicopter procurement funding, senior leaders and industry ensure foreign sales and reinvestment programs will keep the helo manufacturers afloat.
By saildrone.com: Saildrone’s largest, fastest, and most capable platform to date, Spectre is designed to fill a critical ASW capability gap and deliver high-speed and stealth kinetic strike.
DefenseNews.com
• Michael Peck
By DefenseNews.com: The HH-60W, recently used to rescue downed pilots in Iran, lacks a capable infrared countermeasure system, Air Force Material Command said.
FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
By FlightGlobal: The German’s navy’s first two Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft have undergone initial maintenance work at in-country partner Lufthansa Technik Defense’s Hamburg site.
lufthansa-technik.com
