Flying Magazine
• Jack Daleo
Skyryse retrofitted a UH‑60 Black Hawk with its SkyOS automation suite in 91 days and completed the system's first flight, executing an automated pickup, hover and landing. The sortie is the company's first SkyOS‑equipped Black Hawk demonstration and validates rapid retrofit paths for rotorcraft automation.
Wall Street Journal
• Wall Street Journal
By Wall Street Journal: The U.S. is dedicating serious firepower to taking out alleged drug boats around South America. Here’s how the AC-130J Ghostrider gunship and MQ-9 Reaper drone work.
Air & Space Forces Mag
• Matthew Cox
By Air & Space Forces Mag: The Air Force will stand up a new unit next year to shape how the service fights with one-way attack drones.
The Space Review
• Dwayne A. Day
By The Space Review: The Backfire bomber controversyby Dwayne A. Day | ![]() A Backfire bomber in Russia about to be struck by a Ukrainian drone in June 2025. At least four Backfires were destroyed during the attack, and two others damaged.
ABC News
• ABC News
By ABC News: Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 635 drones and 38 missiles into the country overnight, of which 587 drones and 34 missiles were shot down or suppressed.
fdd.org
• Cleo Paskal
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Reuters
• Tuvan Gumrukcu
By Reuters: The Libyan army's chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, died in a plane crash on Tuesday after leaving Turkey's capital Ankara, the prime minister of Libya's internationally recognised government said, adding that four others were on the jet as well.
The War Zone
• Joseph Trevithick
By The War Zone: The USAF says the Talon drone is a "strong contender" in its Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, Increment 2 of which has now kicked off.
Reuters
• Apratim Sarkar
DefenseNews.com
• Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo
