Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
The Royal Canadian Air Force has received the first two of 19 Pilatus PC-21 turboprop trainers, which will support a new military aircrew training system. Canada also plans a separate PC-21 fleet to replace the Snowbirds’ CT-114 Tutor jets.
Reuters
• Toby Shepheard
By Reuters: An Iranian-linked motive is considered the most likely, a source familiar with the investigation said, while a Russian sabotage operation or an Islamist plot were also being looked at.
Air & Space Forces Mag
Bloomberg
• Bloomberg News
By Bloomberg: China‘s People’s Liberation Army Southern Theater Command conducted a joint naval and air training exercise in the waters and airspace around Scarborough Shoal on Sept.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — KBR is putting a veteran defense executive in charge of a $5 billion-plus government technology business as it prepares to spin off operations spanning national security, NASA and military space into an independent public company.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — The United States has secured authority to establish Golden Dome missile-defense capabilities in Greenland, opening the way for the Pentagon to expand a homeland defense network around Pituffik Space Base, where the U.S.
The War Zone
• Howard Altman
By The War Zone: With the job of launching giant tubes packed with explosives and extremely expensive national security payloads on top, if anywhere could use lasers, it's the Cape.
The War Zone
• Joseph Trevithick
By The War Zone: The Navy is pushing to get Blackbeard, a lower-cost and fast-to-produce standoff weapon, into operational service by 2028 at the latest.
The War Zone
• Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway
By The War Zone: What we know and don’t know, and the potential security impacts, regarding the real possibility China has major F-35 components in its possession. What we know and don’t know, and the potential security impacts, regarding the real possibility China has major F-35 components in its possession.
The Daily Debrief
One concise daily briefing across aviation, defense and space—key developments, corroborating sources, and the context leaders need to act.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
The War Zone
• Thomas Newdick
The War Zone
• Joseph Trevithick
Bloomberg
• Anthony Capaccio, Danny Lee
