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Interview with Bell Textron: Investing in the future in Ukraine

We conducted an exclusive interview with Phil Fickes, Director of Bell Textron Ukraine, to discuss prospects for cooperation with Ukraine, potential production localization, the training of Ukrainian specialists, and the future of partnership between Bell Textron and Ukraine’s aviation industry. The American company Bell Textron has taken a step that would have seemed unlikely just […]

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Weapons of Ukraine’s Victory: Meteor Air-to-air Missile

On 28 May 2026, plans were announced for the Ukrainian Air Force to receive Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen aircraft. Without going into the broader details already covered in public reports, one specific aspect is worth highlighting – the air-to-air missile package that Ukraine is expected to receive alongside the Gripens. In addition to well-known […]

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Hellish Ashes in Taganrog: Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces Turn Pride of Russian Aviation and Iskander missile system into Scrap

During a night-time attack on 30 May, operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces of Ukraine carried out an operation on the territory of a military airfield in Taganrog, reportedly disabling an Iskander operational-tactical missile system and two Tupolev Tu-142 aircraft. The information was shared on Facebook by the head of the Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert Brovdi. […]

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Middle Strike: How Ukraine Is Building a New Class of Medium-Range Strike Systems

Middle strike has become one of the defining phenomena of this war – not something conceived in the offices of military theorists, but a capability shaped directly by battlefield pressure. War rarely waits for an army to finish developing the weapons it needs. More often, it forces those weapons to be built in the middle […]

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Sweden to Provide Ukraine with Several Gripen Fighter Jets

Sweden will provide Ukraine with 16 JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets in the C/D configuration. The announcement was made during a joint press conference between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, held during the Prime Minister’s visit to the Uppland Air Wing base in Uppsala. During the meeting, the two sides signed an […]

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Four Russian satellites are now within striking distance of an ICEYE radarsat

At least four Russian military satellites changed their orbits to match that of a Finnish-American radar surveillance satellite in the last week, raising questions about Russia's intentions amid an ever-expanding standoff high above Earth.

The maneuvers were identified through open source orbital tracking data. Greg Gillinger, a retired Air Force space intelligence officer, revealed the orbit changes Friday in a special edition of his Integrity Flash newsletter, published by Integrity ISR, a private business that provides "combat-proven operational support and elite training that enhances mission success across ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance), cyber, space, and targeting domains."

The Russian satellites in question, designated Kosmos 2610 through 2613, launched together on April 16 on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. Over the last week or so, the four satellites adjusted their inclinations—the angles of their orbits to the equator—by less than a degree.

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Former Ukraine official calls for stricter restrictions on Russian use of Starlink

Kateryna Chernohorenko, previously Ukraine’s deputy minister of defense, during her fireside chat with Space Exchange Global’s Duncan McKenize on May 26. Credit: SpaceNews

AMSTERDAM – A former senior Ukrainian defense official called on SpaceX to tighten controls on Starlink terminals that she said are reaching Russian forces through third-party countries or intermediaries. Kateryna […]

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