Aviation Week
• Matthew Fulco
Aviation Week reports: The U.S. is looking at options to increase its supply of tungsten, a mineral crucial to the defense industry, more so after Chinese export restrictions.
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The War Zone
• Howard Altman
By The War Zone: The Navy has also released its conclusions on investigations into other F/A-18 losses and a collision during the Truman's problem-plagued combat cruise.
Aviation Today
• Rich Abott
By Aviation Today: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) on Nov. 17 announced the successful test of an F-22 Raptor fighter controlling an MQ-20 Avenger unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) for the first […].
The War Zone
• Thomas Newdick
By The War Zone: There remain questions about what a MiG-29 was doing on the Crimean airfield of Kacha, which is not equipped for fighter operations. There remain questions about what the MiG-29 was doing on the Crimean airfield of Kacha, which is not equipped for fighter operations.
Breaking Defense
• Barry Rosenberg
By Breaking Defense: A zero trust end state is not redundancy or recovery but an infrastructure that never goes down in the first place.
Aviation Today
• Frank Wolfe
By Aviation Today: The Air Force plans to award a 10-year firm fixed price contract at the end of fiscal 2027 to RTX‘s Pratt & Whitney for the restoration of the company’s F117 […].
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: India expects its first four Rafale M carrier fighters by 2029 as part of a 26 aircraft deal with France, marking a major step in modernizing naval aviation.
Reuters
• Sabine Siebold
By Reuters: Germany has deployed five Eurofighter jets and some 150 military personnel to the Polish town of Malbork to help secure the country's airspace, the German air force said on Thursday, in response to Russian drone incursions in September.
DefenseNews.com
• Stephen Losey
