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PARIS – Huntington Ingalls Industries has doubled the footprint of its site on the south coast of England as the American shipbuilder seeks to service its growing business of unmanned underwater vehicles for the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy and other navies in western and northern Europe.The enlarged HII site in Portchester, England, will now be able to assemble the company’s Remus 620 medium-class modular UUV, and allow the company to increase the pace of training for allied navies, Nick Green, the manager in charge of the facility, said in a Jan. 12 briefing with reporters.Growing technological maturity means navies are…

Global charter specialist Chapman Freeborn has been awarded International Air Cargo Charter Broker of the Year, recognizing its long-standing leadership in global air cargo charter solutions, operational excellence, and the delivery of complex and specialized charter operations. Presented by STAT Publishing Group, the award acknowledges Chapman Freeborn’s more than 50 years of experience in air cargo chartering since its founding in 1973, as well as its ability to deliver highly tailored solutions across diverse and demanding operational environments. Operating independently, Chapman Freeborn retains the flexibility to source the most suitable aircraft and work with trusted operators worldwide, ensuring that each…

A former U.S. Navy sailor convicted of selling technical and operating manuals for ships and operating systems to an intelligence officer working for China was sentenced Monday to more than 16 years in prison, prosecutors said.A federal judge in San Diego sentenced Jinchao Wei, 25, to 200 months. A federal jury convicted Wei in August of six crimes, including espionage. He was paid more than $12,000 for the information he sold, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.Wei, an engineer for the amphibious assault ship USS Essex, was one of two California-based sailors charged on Aug. 3, 2023,…

The first strike of Operation Southern Spear was announced by Washington on September 2, 2025, after a US naval vessel destroyed a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean.  A newly published New York Times report is now drawing attention not to the target, but to the platform that carried out the attack. Citing officials briefed on the mission, the NYT says the United States used “a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane,” with no external weapons and a tube-launched internal munition.  This unusual configuration for a modern US strike aircraft has prompted some legal experts to question…

Aviation Capital Group (ACG), a major aircraft leasing firm, has placed an order for 50 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, split into half B737 MAX 10 and half B737 MAX 8s.  This deal, which brings ACG’s 737 MAX order book to 121 aircraft, is the single largest order to date for the MAX 10 version of Boeing’s narrowbody aircraft. It also represents a doubling of ACG’s commitment to the B737 MAX 10 model, building on the lessor’s pre-existing order for 25 of the type.   Although no specific details regarding the order’s amount or the delivery calendar were shared in the official…

Spain’s Directorate of Civil Aviation (“Dirección General de Aviación Civil”) has assigned seven weekly frequencies to Air Europa to potentially operate between Barcelona (BCN) and Istanbul (IST).  In May 2025, the Spanish airline launched a four-weekly nonstop service linking Madrid-Barajas (MAD) to the Turkish hub. This was later increased to a daily service.  Air links between Spain and Turkey were expanded in 2025 on the back of growing tourism and business links between the two countries, as well as connecting traffic. Turkish Airlines launched the first nonstop connection between Istanbul and Sevilla (SQV) in September 2025, while its fully owned…

By Vincent E. Bianco III FAA Veteran and Senior Aviation Safety Consultant Guest Column Credit: Federal Aviation Administration. Jan. 13, 2026, © Leeham News: Presidential administrations and Congresses dating to the formation of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1957 have failed to adequately fund the agency and modernize the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system. An insider examines why.—Editor. Introduction: A Crisis of Process Over Progress In their book Abundance: What America Gets Wrong About Capitalism and What We Can Do to Fix It, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson describe a phenomenon in which institutions become paralyzed by process—where layers…

321 Precision Conversions and Sichuan Aviation Industry Development Co. have completed the first A321-200PCF conversion under the regulatory framework of the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The regulatory process and supervision were no different from that of the A321PCFs that Precision has converted under FAA and EASA oversight, Precision told Cargo Facts. Additionally, Precision’s A321PCF […] source

UPS and DHL are scaling back their short-haul capacity in the United States, leaving regional freighter service providers scrambling for new business. “We have been kind of sitting on our hands for the past year, as both UPS and DHL have canceled a total of six contracted routes, and it looks like more — after […] source

Lufthansa has delayed the planned resumption of direct flights between Frankfurt and Tehran as widespread protests and deteriorating security conditions in Iran continue to unsettle international carriers. The German flag carrier had been preparing to restore its Frankfurt-Imam Khomeini International Airport service on January 16, 2026, following a roughly six-month suspension, but now says it will not return to the route until at least late January, citing safety concerns for passengers and crew.   The service had been paused in mid-2025 after Tehran and much of the Middle East became a challenging and unpredictable operating environment for international airlines. Last year saw regional tensions flare…