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NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan — The United States has been selling advanced weapons to Taiwan for years, with large American contractors churning out more of the higher-end equipment than the island could ever produce alone for its defense against its military rival China.Now Taiwan, an all-purpose manufacturing hub since the 1980s with an emphasis on high-tech hardware, is positioning to sell homegrown drones to the U.S. military so it can avoid the dominant Chinese supply chain, analysts and recent transactions indicate.“Foreign governments value Taiwanese drones mainly because of Taiwan’s strong information and communication technologies foundation and its role as a…

The Long Game: China, Cirrus, and the Cost of Honest Journalism Fifteen years is a long time. It is certainly long enough for memories to fade, for old arguments to lose their edge, and for people to quietly revise history into something more comfortable than it actually was. Over the last several days, I have spent more time than I expected digging through ANN archives, old correspondence, legal documents, notes, and records from a period of our history that consumed an astonishing amount of time, money, energy, and attention. Some of the details had faded. Others came rushing back with…

From 2023 (YouTube Edition): A Moniker Well-Chosen Founded in 2021 by serial entrepreneur David Mayman and headquartered in New York City, Mayman Aerospace is the designer and manufacturer of a so-called Air Utility Vehicle (AUV) dubbed Speeder. Subject machine is a compact, high-speed, Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft at once suited to dual-use military and civilian special missions roles, to include personal transportation; combat resupply; Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); fire-suppression; Search And Rescue (SAR); and emergency medical support.

“We identified the standard that was always there, then built a system to deliver it.” Source: Community Aviation and aviation educator Rich Stowell have released The Learn-Do-Fly Training Standard, described as the first formally documented, evidence based, open training standard for general aviation. Built from nearly four decades of instruction, research, and field validation, the framework is designed to improve student retention, advance learning to the correlation level, and reduce fatal inflight loss of control accidents.

Aven Hospitality launched a booking engine on Wednesday designed to keep travelers on a hotel’s own website through checkout.  The tech eliminates the redirect to a separate booking page — a step the company says drives abandonment. Aven says the engine was rebuilt from scratch, rather than adapted from the technology it inherited as a Sabre business unit. The launch is Aven’s second major product release since TPG acquired the fo source

NASA chief urges new ride for Blue Moon. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket was supposed to launch the company’s first lunar lander, Blue Moon Mark 1, sometime this fall. The Blue Moon test mission is an important precursor for Blue Origin’s future human-rated Moon lander for the Artemis program, and NASA is eager to see it fly. The rocket’s explosion on the launch pad last week makes a launch on New Glenn this year unachievable. NASA now wants to find an alternative launcher for the first of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon demo missions, Spaceflight Now reports. In an interview with Fox Business…

Listen to this audio excerpt from Elkin Norena, resident management officer, NASA’s Space Launch System Program: Your browser does not support the audio element. NASA’s Elkin Norena has helped the agency launch more than a dozen space shuttle missions – that’s more than a dozen crews to low Earth orbit and more than a dozen historic missions. They were missions that helped build the International Space Station, that provided a final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, and that performed critical science experiments that improved life right here on Earth. Today, he continues that work as the manager of…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Tests of Ukraine’s new FP-7.X missile could pave the way to a cheaper and more plentiful, albeit far less capable, alternative to the U.S.-made Patriot air defense system effectors. A recent uptick in Russian missile and drone attacks against Ukraine, combined with a critical shortage of Patriot interceptors, underscores the need for more robust air defenses, especially with anti-ballistic missile capabilities. The development parallels a similar program in the United States, which seeks a drastically lower-cost interceptor for the Patriot system. A video…

The United States on Tuesday launched strikes against Iran after President Donald Trump said Tehran had shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz, deepening doubts about prospects for peace between the two countries. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” U.S. Central Command said on X. Trump earlier said the two U.S. pilots involved in the incident were uninjured but that the United States would respond to the attack. The Apache was brought down by a one-way Iranian attack drone, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Iran’s Foreign…

While political tensions have led to steep declines in U.S.-Canada travel, Canadian carriers say they still see growth opportunities in the U.S. CEOs at WestJet and Porter Airlines described the U.S. as a lucrative market during interviews at the sidelines of the IATA AGM in Rio de Janeiro.  WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech told Skift that the carrier had to reduce capacity in the U.S. by 25%, but the margins for the market are solid. “It’s healthy, it’s a good margin source