BloombergAnthony Capaccio

US Space Force Awards Classified Prototype Contracts for 'Golden Dome' Space‑Based Interceptors

Bloomberg reports: The US Space Force awarded multiple small contracts to develop prototypes for space-based interceptors, looking for progress with a technology that has yet to be proven but forms a crucial part of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile-defense umbrella.

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Reuters

Romania Scrambles Fighter Jets After Multiple Drones Breach Airspace Near Ukraine Border

By Reuters: Romanian and German NATO fighter jets were scrambled on Tuesday near Romania's border with Ukraine to respond to a drone incursion that penetrated deeper than ever into Romanian airspace, in what Bucharest called a Russian provocation.

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SpaceWatch GlobalTorsten Kriening

#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Germany’s Space-Defense Ambitions Meet NATO’s Hard Lessons on Transformation

By SpaceWatch Global: In Brussels, Norfolk, or Berlin, the debates sound familiar: new threats, shrinking timelines, and overstretched forces.

2025-11-25T01:17:05.901372-08:00
FlightGlobalGreg Waldron

Baykar Kizilelma conducts simulated F-16 shoot-down in Turkish trials

By FlightGlobal: Baykar's Kizilelma unmanned combat aircraft has successfully conducted a simulated shoot-down of a Turkish air force F-16 fighter using a beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile during trials east of Istanbul.

2025-11-24T21:24:27.800814-08:00
ReutersChristian Martinez

US approves possible sale of Navy satellite communication terminals to UK, Pentagon says

By Reuters: The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale of Navy Multiband Terminals, a maritime military satellite communications system, and related equipment to the United Kingdom for an estimated cost of $200 million, the Pentagon said in a statement Monday.

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