AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
Sweden is equipping army brigades with Saab radar and air-defense command systems, centered on the Giraffe AMB for short-to-medium range tracking. Saab says the radar is optimized to track advanced aerial threats—rather than focusing on counter-drone coverage—covering ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and fixed-wing aircraft.
Via Satellite
• Laurence Russell
By Via Satellite: The date is April 10. Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation to strikes by the U.S. and Israel, triggering a regional war.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: Washington is reportedly discussing a broader NATO nuclear-sharing role as France promotes a European deterrence framework independent of F-35 procurement.
Breaking Defense
• Jennifer Petersen
By Breaking Defense: Lockheed Martin’s ACES platform delivers a shared virtual battlespace that strengthens readiness, interoperability, and faster decision-making through advanced, integrated modeling and simulation capabilities designed for evolving global threats.
FlightGlobal
• Ryan Finnerty
By FlightGlobal: The firm is pitching the Pentagon on small, ultra-agile rotor-driven drones that have proven a cheap and effective method for Ukrainian forces to defend against larger attack platforms.
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: Aircraft is the first of 45 new Typhoons ordered to replace part of Spain's the F-18 Airbus Defence and Space has unveiled the first Eurofighter Typhoon built for Spain under the Halcon I program , with the aircraft now preparing for engine tests and its maiden flight at the company's facility in Getafe, near Madrid.
The Air Current
• Carter Johnston
By The Air Current: Navy will resume operations on Wake Island — a largely dormant contingency airfield — after over 70 years of reduced staffing, as the service works to re-establish a competitive presence in the Pacific while a growing Chinese military deploys its Navy farther from home.
The War Zone
• Ian Ellis-Jones
By The War Zone: Here's where all of America's aircraft carriers and big-deck amphibious assault ships are as of June 1, 2026.
FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
