FlightGlobal
• Ryan Finnerty
Northrop Grumman has disclosed that the U.S. Air Force paid $371 million for a company-owned B-21 test article. The company confirmed the sale in April but had not previously put a value on the transfer.
FlightGlobal
• Ryan Finnerty
By FlightGlobal: The company's YFQ-48A Talon Blue jet logged its first flight in recent weeks. Military airframer Northrop Grumman is bullish on its prospects to secure a competitive win in future opportunities to build uncrewed fighter jets.
Wall Street Journal
• Bojan Pancevski
By Wall Street Journal: BERLIN—A massive cargo plane, used to carry military assistance to Ukraine and parked at an airfield in eastern Germany, was attacked by explosive-packed drones in early August.
The War Zone
• Joseph Trevithick
By The War Zone: The ex-USAF KC-10 is now headed for a second career in the private sector with Omega Air Refueling. Add TWZ (opens Google in a new window or tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.
politico.eu
• Veronika Melkozerova
By politico.eu: The Ukrainian president complained about delayed air defense deliveries, the U.S. no longer warning of ballistic missile attacks and a slowdown in crucial Starlink services.
Wall Street Journal
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force wants its busiest launch ranges to eventually handle surges of five to eight major operations a day under a modernization plan aimed at keeping aging infrastructure from becoming a constraint on space activity.
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: Test connected USS Ronald Reagan in the Pacific with the unmanned tanker at Boeing's facility U.S. Navy has remotely controlled a Boeing MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling aircraft from an aircraft carrier located more than 2,100 miles (3,380 km) away.
Bloomberg
• Christina Kyriasoglou, Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro, Yazhou Sun
By Bloomberg: Helsing is in advanced talks to invest in peer Destinus at a valuation of around €6 billion ($6.7 billion), according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that would bring two of the region’s most prominent dronemakers closer.
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• Ricardo Meier
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• Kenneth Chang
