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Last Updated: Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, 5:46 AM PST
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SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
Space is key to the Army’s long march to a connected force
By SpaceNews.com: Space is key to the Army’s long march to a connected force.
Breaking Defense
• Tim Martin
Eurofighter CEO: Turkish order could outsize home‑nation commitments and spark further exports
By Breaking Defense: One major upside for the consortium, should the wave of additional contracts arrive, is that the volume of export aircraft on order would be greater than those signed by the Eurofighter home nations of Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.
News.CN
China commissions Fujian, its first aircraft carrier equipped with electromagnetic catapults
By News.CN:  Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, presents a People's Liberation Army (PLA) flag to the captain and political commissar of the Fujian at a naval port in Sanya City, south China's Hainan Province, Nov.
edrmagazine.eu
• Jules Roukoz
Rheinmetall and ICEYE form joint venture in Neuss to deliver SAR satellite-based ISR capabilities
By edrmagazine.eu: November 7, 2025 – The technology group Rheinmetall and ICEYE, the global leader in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite operations.
FlightGlobal
• Greg Waldron
Taiwan to receive first MQ-9B UAVs in 2026
By FlightGlobal: Taiwan will receive its first pair of General AtomicsAeronautical Systems MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned air vehicles in the third quarter of 2026, while Lockheed Martin works to accelerate delivery of the island's F-16V fighters amid production delays.
Aviation Week
• Kim Minseok
South Korea Launches Multiyear Program to Develop Full‑Scale Crewed Stealth Fighter Technology Demonstrator
By Aviation Week: South Korea is launching a multiyear program to design, build and test a full-scale, crewed stealth fighter technology demonstrator.
Aviation Week
• Tony Osborne
UK Abandons F-35 Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing Plans
By Aviation Week: The technique was demonstrated several times during development and operational testing of the ship and the aircraft.
