Payload
• Douglas Gorman
Austria is preparing to launch its first military satellite to detect and counter interference with GPS and other GNSS services. The program aims to protect positioning, navigation and timing capabilities from jamming and spoofing, reflecting broader European efforts to harden sovereign PNT and space resilience.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: Zelenskyy says no direct request was made for Ukrainian drone-defense experts after UK PM Starmer said they would help Gulf partners counter Iranian drones.
New York Times
• Cade Metz, Sheera Frenkel
By New York Times: Palmer Luckey, who founded the defense tech start-up Anduril, has become the It Guy as President Trump aims to modernize the U.S. military with autonomous weapons.
Vertical Mag
By Vertical Mag: Under the contract, Curtiss-Wright’s Mississauga, Ontario, facility will manufacture the systems and provide technical field support to the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center.
FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
By FlightGlobal: The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) has edged closer to reinstating its lapsed airborne early warning and control capability, following the arrival of an Indra-produced simulator at its Lossiemouth base in Scotland.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: Social media footage suggests a US Air Force F-15E crashed in Kuwait in what is reported as a friendly fire incident. Both crew members ejected and survived.
FlightGlobal
• Dominic Perry
By FlightGlobal: A project involving six NATO members aiming to develop a next-generation military helicopter has agreed around 90% of the requirements ahead of the release of a request for proposals to industry this summer.
Reuters
By Reuters: A drone strike hit a British air base in Cyprus overnight, causing limited damage and no casualties, Cypriot and British officials said on Monday, in a marked escalation effectively dragging an EU member state into the conflict surrounding Iran.
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
Reuters
• Catherine Cartier, Eleanor Whalley, Maria Laguna
