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Japan Airlines just can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to employees and their alcohol consumption. Ordinarily it’s the pilots who get in trouble, but here’s a case where a senior flight attendant got in trouble, and it’ll have major implications for all flight attendants. Japan Airlines flight delayed over intoxicated flight attendant Japan Airlines is facing public scrutiny and is having to apologize over an incident that happened on Saturday, May 23, 2026, impacting flight JL252 from Hiroshima (HIJ) to Tokyo (HND). As reported by Aviation Wire and flagged by PYOK, two flight attendants onboard the flight…

WARSAW, Poland — Lithuania’s State Defense Council, the country’s top defense decision-making body, has authorized the Ministry of National Defence to purchase Patria six-wheel-drive armored personnel carriers for the Lithuanian Army.A contract is expected to be signed with the Finnish producer in 2027, with Lithuania’s defense industry expected to capture a share of the planned procurement.“This is a multifunctional platform on which air-defense systems and capabilities can be installed, and it will also serve military medical and logistics purposes,” Lithuanian Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas was quoted in a statement released by the ministry.Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nausėda, who is the council’s…

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UPPSALA, Sweden — Ukraine will buy 20 new Gripen fighter jets, and Sweden will donate 16 of an older model next year, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a joint press conference on Thursday.The two leaders had signed a letter of intent last year paving the way for Sweden to sell up to 150 Saab Gripen model E fighter jets to Ukraine, though deliveries of the newer model are several years away.The planes are ​a priority for Ukraine’s fighter fleet and the country’s defense minister said in May that a deal for Gripen E…

NorSAF, a joint venture between Avia Solutions Group (parent company of AeroTime) and several Latvian partners, has signed an agreement with US-based energy engineering firm KBR to build what is set to become Europe’s first 100% drop-in SAF production plant in Latvia.   This production facility will be located within the Liepaja Special Economic Zone (SEZ), on the Baltic coast, and will have a production capacity of 100,000 tons per year. Its construction will require an investment of over €1 billion, with entry into service planned for 2031. For reference, aviation fuel demand in the three Baltic countries, Lithuania, Latvia and…

Ukraine is set to acquire Swedish Gripen fighter jets in a major defense deal announced by the Swedish government on May 28, 2026, as the country continues to strengthen its air defense capabilities. Under the agreement, Sweden will enable Ukraine to procure up to 20 Gripen E/F aircraft, with Kyiv planning to allocate €2.5 billion (US $2.7 billion) from the European Union’s Ukraine Support Loan to fund the purchase. Once Ukraine proceeds with the deal, Sweden also intends to donate 16 older Gripen C/D aircraft as bilateral military assistance. You can do a lot with Gripen fighter jets.But they’re built…

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VIENNA — German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius came to Canada’s CANSEC defense exhibition on Wednesday with a message that was as much political as commercial: Buy our submarines, and Germany will have your back.Standing alongside Canadian Defense Minister David McGuinty in front of a Franco-German helicopter fitted with Canadian engines, Pistorius made an explicit pitch for TKMS’ Type 212CD in Canada’s Canadian Patrol Submarine Project, a contract estimated at up to C$60 billion (US$43.3 billion) and among the largest defense procurement decisions in Canadian history.“This is a very unique offer,” Pistorius said at a fireside chat hosted by the Canadian…

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg says the planemaker is “off and rolling at the 47 rate’ after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) backed increasing production of the 737 program. On May 27, 2026, at the Bernstein Annual Strategic Decisions Conference in New York, Ortberg told reporters that the company had “passed a capstone review for rate 47” with the FAA. “We are now in the process of running the line at the 47-a-month rate,” Ortberg said, according to CNBC. “It’ll probably take us a few months of stabilization there […] My guess is we continue to go up in rate.” Ortberg…

U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.In a letter shared with Reuters by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, U.S. Central Command said it had “received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater.” The message, sent on April 14, offered no further specifics, but CENTCOM’s area of responsibility includes the Gulf, where U.S. forces are facing off against the Iranian military over…