Reuters
Reuters reports: Japan said it scrambled jets on Friday to monitor Russian warplanes, including strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons, which had flown along the edge of Japanese airspace up its coast.
Last Updated: Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, 5:01 AM PDT
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Reuters
• Mike Stone
By Reuters: Defense startup Castelion said on Friday it has won contracts to integrate its Blackbeard hypersonic strike weapon with current U.S. Army systems, the first step toward allowing the military to place the powerful and nearly unstoppable weapons around the world.
FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
By FlightGlobal: European interest in Saab's GlobalEye surveillance aircraft is continuing to build, as the Swedish company awaits the finalisation of a deal to supply the platform to the French air force.
FlightGlobal
• Greg Waldron
By FlightGlobal: Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) is pursuing its first international sale of the KF-21 Boramae fighter while advancing development of a single-seat FA-50 variant and exploring an ambitious tactical transport project.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Payload spoke with a handful of European venture capital firms to determine the impact of the merger between Airbus, Thales, and Leonardo.
Associated Press
• Associated Press
By Associated Press: The U.S. military has flown a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela. Thursday's flights come a little over a week after another group of American bombers made a similar journey as part of a training exercise to simulate an attack.
Reuters
• Johan Ahlander
By Reuters: Swedish defence group Saab can meet demand for its Gripen fighter jets even if a landmark deal for up to 150 planes to Ukraine becomes reality, the defence group's CEO said on Friday.
FlightGlobal
• Greg Waldron
By FlightGlobal: Deliveries of 66 Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 fighters for Taiwan have been delayed again, with the aircraft now unlikely to arrive before late 2026 and possibly extending into 2027.
