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Army leaders struggled Friday to respond to congressional furor over the Pentagon’s decision to abruptly cancel a deployment of more than 4,000 soldiers to Poland this month. Acting Army Chief of Staff Gen. Christopher LaNeve said in an Army budget hearing that the order to halt a planned 9-month rotation to Europe by 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division to Eastern Europe came from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. LaNeve and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said they were informed of the order and had been consulted, but they wouldn’t provide the exact timing of the decision. On May 1,…

US military intelligence-gathering flights have increased off Cuba’s coast recently as a broader pressure campaign against Havana now includes a rare CIA visit, a deepening fuel crisis and a possible US indictment of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro.  An analysis of public flight-tracking data found that US Navy and Air Force aircraft have flown at least 25 intelligence-gathering missions near Cuba in recent weeks.   The flights have included Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, RC-135V Rivet Joint signals-intelligence aircraft and MQ-4C Triton high-altitude surveillance drones.   Some flights came within about 40 miles of the Cuban coastline, with activity concentrated near Havana and Santiago de Cuba.   The aircraft involved are standard US military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms. The P-8A supports…

HONOLULU — Anduril is slated to deliver at least 3,000 surface-launched cruise missiles to the U.S. Army beginning in 2027, part of an effort to quickly advance affordable munitions procurement at scale.Over the course of the three-year framework agreement, Anduril will supply the Army with a minimum of 1,000 surface-launched Barracuda-500Ms per year, according to a company release.“Long-range precision fires and stand-off strike weapons are fundamental to America’s ability to deter our adversaries, but existing solutions are too expensive, too exquisite and too hard to produce at scale,” the release states.Meant for long-range strikes and designed for a variety of…

Every so often, we see airlines remove people from aircraft for violating their vague dress codes. In this post, I’d like to talk about that in a bit more detail, because I saw some shirts at an airport today that sure caught me off guard… Airlines ban “offensive” clothing, but what does that mean? Nowadays you hardly have to dress up to fly commercially, regardless of the airline that you’re flying on, or the cabin you’re flying in. Airlines do have dress codes, but they’re very basic. When passengers book air travel, they have to agree to the contract of…

The U.S. Army is moving beyond battling individual drone threats as it experiments with tactics to combat — and attack with — throngs of unmanned aircraft in saturated skies. The latest iteration of Project Flytrap, a multinational exercise to test new drone technologies in a realistic conflict setting, pitted U.S. and allied forces against each other in scenarios that featured drone swarms, jamming systems and counter-UAS defenses that continue to redefine modern warfare.Army leaders have emphasized the need to integrate drones into doctrine and tactics, as they say the rise of inexpensive, mass-produced drones have forced the service to rethink…

Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa Airport suspended all air traffic for three hours on Friday, May 15, 2026, after authorities issued an emergency drone warning across the Uusimaa region, scrambling Finnish Air Force F/A-18 Hornet fighters and diverting long-haul arrivals to Stockholm and Rovaniemi.  According to airport operator Finavia, traffic was halted from 4:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. local time, with operations resuming at 7:19 a.m. Two Finnair morning arrivals from Tokyo were diverted to Stockholm and Rovaniemi respectively.  A service from Osaka also landed in Rovaniemi, which routinely serves as an alternate for transpolar flights entering Finnish airspace via Lapland. Flights from Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaga were…

LAOAG, Philippines — At one point during Exercise Balikatan 2026 in the Philippines, one regiment of the U.S. Marine Corps had personnel strewn across 17 locations in the archipelago, giving forces a chance to flex their muscle in dispersed, expeditionary operations.Held from Apr. 20 to May 8, Balikatan was a good testing ground for the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, or 3rd MLR.This agile Hawaii-based unit possesses more than 2,000 personnel. Designed to operate at the tip of the Marine Corps, the MLR was created in March 2022.1st Lt. Duncan Stoner, the unit’s director for communication strategy and, said his formation…

If you’re at all an aviation geek or interested in the airline industry, I implore you to find 47 minutes over the weekend to enjoy this… Cockpit Casual documents Spirit Airlines repo operation I’ve written in the past about the “Cockpit Casual” channel on YouTube, which is run by Steve Giordano. He and his business partner Bob Allen run Nomadic Aviation Group, which is a company that specializes in ferrying aircraft worldwide. These guys have what I’d argue is the most interesting and entrepreneurial jobs of any pilots in the world (though of course their responsibilities are largely focused on…

AirAsia Group has posted a positive net operating profit for the first quarter of 2026, though rising fuel costs and currency swings weighed on the bottom line. The company reported its results on May 14, 2026, marking the first full quarter since consolidating its regional airlines under a single platform. A steady start, then fuel prices hit AirAsia Group recorded EBITDA of RM1,009 million (US $224 million) and a net operating profit of RM199 million (US $44 million) for the quarter, resulting in EBITDA and NOP margins of 17% and 3% respectively. The group reported a net loss of RM129…

RIGA, Latvia — The Canada-led NATO brigade in Latvia has moved beyond its original “tripwire” deterrence posture and is now focused on mounting a credible defense of the Baltic country bordering Russia, according to its commander, Col. Kris Reeves.Reeves said the shift towards what he described as “tactical credibility” has meant establishing forward locations and stationing troops near Latvia’s eastern border, in the terrain where they would actually fight in the event of a conflict, the Canadian commander told Defense News.“Right now I have a brigade, there is nothing on the other side of the border that can take out…