Flying Magazine
• Jack Daleo
Eight pilots of AH-64 Apache helicopters were suspended following flights low over a beach in South Carolina. The Pentagon subsequently reviewed the incident and lifted the suspensions, according to reporting tied to the service’s review process.
The War Zone
• Howard Altman
By The War Zone: The F-22s are part of a larger retrograde of airpower out of the CENTCOM region while at the same time the prospects of renewed fighting grow.
The War Zone
• Joseph Trevithick
By The War Zone: E-2 pilots and foreign student pilots still need to do carrier qualifications, but huge changes to the naval aviation training landscape are looming.
Wall Street Journal
• Wall Street Journal
By Wall Street Journal: WSJ joins the British military on its flagship aircraft carrier as it deploys to the Arctic to try to deter an escalating hybrid war in the High North.
Reuters
By Reuters: Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that Turkey hopes to achieve a result on lifting U.S. sanctions and its desire to purchase F-35 fighter jets soon, adding there should be no defence industry restrictions between allies.
Aviation Week
The War Zone
• Thomas Newdick
By The War Zone: Ankara is reportedly eyeing the transfer of the Russian-made SAM systems to a Gulf country in a bid to have Washington lift its F-35 embargo. Reports say Ankara is weighing the transfer of the Russian-made air defense systems to a Gulf country in a bid to persuade Washington to lift sanctions.
Wall Street Journal
• Alexander Ward, Anat Peled, Andrew Tangel, Marianne LeVine
By Wall Street Journal: A lack of defensive capabilities aboard President Trump’s new luxury jet led him to fly home from Turkey aboard an older Air Force One plane this week after U.S.
Breaking Defense
• Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
By Breaking Defense: The Pentagon's new target is to remove Anthropic department-wide by end of September, even as the AI titan is suing the government to overturn it.
Bloomberg
• Catherine Lucey, Hadriana Lowenkron
New York Times
• Adam Goldman, Eric Lipton, Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager
