AirInsight
• Addison Schonland
India has chosen Boeing 767 tanker conversions delivered through a partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries, passing over the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus. The decision is framed as cost-driven fleet planning, reshaping India’s aerial-refuelling recapitalisation approach and setting a new pathway for how the program is industrialised.
Breaking Defense
• Agnes Helou
By Breaking Defense: "SAHA has evolved from a national showcase into a genuine global meeting point for the defense and aerospace industry, and the 2026 edition will reflect this maturity," one expert said.
DefenseNews.com
By DefenseNews.com: A tally of international defense spending shows continued budget increases around the globe. Plus, the Air Forces orders up more advanced fighters.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: Foundation DENVER — About a year into the job, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency director Stephen Winchell is looking to reshape the agency’s space portfolio, arguing it must function less as a collection of high-risk experiments and more as a conduit to a fast-moving commercial market.
Breaking Defense
• Carley Welch
By Breaking Defense: The company said in a release today that it will be providing its Switchblade 400 product, a portable, anti-armor loitering munition with medium range.
Flying Magazine
• Jack Daleo
By Flying Magazine: Founder and CEO Mukund Karanjikar tells FLYING how CycloKinetics is flipping the script in aerospace design.
politico.eu
• Ferdinand Knapp
By politico.eu: The officials are suspected of using satellite equipment installed on the rooftops of Russian diplomatic buildings to spy on targets in Vienna.
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner
By SpaceNews.com: SAN FRANCISCO – Vantor will operate and enhance the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (GEGD) platform, an unclassified web-based system, under a $70 million award announced May 4.
defence-industry.eu
• Martin Chomsky Air
The War Zone
• Ian Ellis-Jones, Tyler Rogoway
