Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
The U.S. Air Force is removing a KC-135 Stratotanker from long-term storage at the Davis-Monthan aircraft boneyard to restore fleet readiness after a tanker was destroyed in an earlier crash, military officials confirmed. The move underscores the need for rapid tanker regeneration to maintain aerial-refueling capacity.
The War Zone
• Joseph Trevithick
By The War Zone: The persistent surveillance capabilities the glider-like ULTRA offers are in high demand, especially amid MQ-9 losses in fighting with Iran.
FlightGlobal
• Greg Waldron
By FlightGlobal: Poland aims to operate a total of 32 F-35As from two bases. Poland has marked the arrival of its first three Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters at a local air base.
aviationnews.eu
AeroTime
• Joshua R. Kroeker
By AeroTime: Europe’s critical infrastructure faces a growing drone threat, but resilience must move beyond compliance paperwork and into operational readiness.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: An RAF Dassault Falcon 900LX carrying UK Defense Secretary John Healey from Estonia had its GPS jammed for three hours, with Russia suspected.
ch-aviation
• Dominik Sipinski
By ch-aviation: This article is only available with a subscription for Commercial Aviation News, Operator & Airport Data.
Associated Press
• Efrem Lukatsky, EVGENIY MALOLETKA
By Associated Press: Russia used the powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile during a mass drone and missile attack on Kyiv on Sunday that killed at least two people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, marking its third use in the war.
politico.eu
• Gabriel Gavin
By politico.eu: The visit comes after the three Baltic nations sounded the alarm over airspace incursions.
