Ukraine is taking active steps toward establishing domestic production of critical air defense capabilities through a new cooperation initiative with the U.S. defense company Raytheon. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with a company delegation led by Vice President Joseph DeAntona, after which he announced that Ukraine and Raytheon would work together on the production of […]

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A new day brings new losses. Russian Telegram channels are reporting that a military aircraft has crashed several kilometers from the town of Zvenigorod in Russia’s Moscow region. According to preliminary reports, the aircraft may have been a Su-57, the only fifth-generation fighter currently in service with the Russian military. According to the Telegram channel Astra, […]

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Textron Aviation Inc., a subsidiary of Textron Inc., has announced that the clean-sheet single-engine turboprop Beechcraft Denali has entered the final stages of its flight testing program. The Denali development program remains on schedule, with completion of all flight tests planned for October 2026. Once testing is complete, Textron Aviation will submit the final certification […]

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Ukraine presented a new reusable version of the domestically developed An-196 “Liutyi” long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at the Farnborough International Airshow. The platform was displayed equipped with four air-to-surface cruise missiles. This new configuration may indicate the evolution of a platform that had previously been employed as a one-way attack (kamikaze) drone. This is […]

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