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Korean Air will purchase four Bombardier Global 6500 business jets, of which two will be modified with L3Harris’ help and the other two will be modified in South Korea. L3Harris announced on Oct. 20, 2025, it has formally received the contract from South Korea for its next AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning and Control) aircraft. The consortium of L3Harris and Korean Air previously won the open competition by the Defense Acquisitions and Program Administration (DAPA) on Sep. 30. The program, valued at $2.6 billion, will involve modifying four Bombardier Global 6500 business jets with the conformal Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) EL/W-2085…

In a wargame last month to test crisis plans, the Army’s Southern European Task Force, Africa, or SETAF-AF, used artificial intelligence to enhance the approach.“AI helps planners search curated data, answer doctrinal questions and prototype simulations,” Robin Kuo, a SETAF-AF strategist and planner, said in an Army release.The wargame, part of a deployment readiness exercise at Vicenza, Italy, took advantage of Maven, the Pentagon’s flagship AI project that began in 2017. While the Army didn’t provide details of the exercise, it described the wargame as a means to “stress-test the command’s response to real-world crises.”“This exercise demonstrated how SETAF-AF remains…

It is a well-known feature of the commercial passenger airline industry that airlines are not the highest margin businesses, despite billions of dollars flowing through them. Like many other high-grossing industries with millions of annual customers, such as the film or sports industries, the CEOs of the largest companies are very handsomely compensated. According to Skift, CEO compensation for airlines in the United States was uncapped as of April 1, 2023, thanks to the end of the CARES Act, which restricted executive pay. In the same year, United CEO Scott Kirby’s total compensation nearly doubled from $9.8 million to $18.6…

U.S. Strategic Command has begun this year’s edition of the annual nuclear command & control exercise known as Global Thunder. As we mentioned in last month’s article on what is believed to have been a ‘Skymaster exercise’, the annual Exercise Global Thunder was expected to take place, as usual, in October or November 2025. We now have confirmation from U.S. Strategic Command, or STRATCOM, that Global Thunder 26 officially commenced on Oct. 21, 2025.U.S. Strategic Command has begun this year’s edition of the annual nuclear command & control exercise known as Global Thunder.Wider Picture Global Thunder exercises, along with the…

U.S. Army units have begun receiving updated navigational hardware known as the Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing System (MAPS) GEN II, service officials announced.The new system builds on its predecessor, MAPS GEN I, to provide soldiers with increased abilities to navigate and communicate in high-stress environments where GPS is denied or degraded.MAPS Gen II was made to be compatible with emerging technology being used within the Army. It is also more secure against complex electronic warfare threats, such as adversaries attempting to sabotage GPS location technology via jamming or spoofing, according to a service release.“Jamming is disruptive, but spoofing…

IATA launched a new certification system, the Integrated Sustainability Program, at its World Sustainability Symposium in Hong Kong on Oct. 20. The Integrated Sustainability Program (ISP) provides airlines with a framework to manage and measure their sustainability performance across environmental, social and governance dimensions, according to an Oct. 20 release from IATA. Built on IATA’s […] source

Hong Kong-based flag carrier Cathay Pacific and European Aerospace manufacturing giant Airbus have agreed to co-invest up to $70 million to accelerate Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production in Asia and across the globe. An agreement announced in Hong Kong during the International Air Transport Association (IATA) World Sustainability Symposium, this partnership will identify and fund commercially viable, technologically mature projects with strong long-term potential. The goal of this project, according to its leaders, Alex McGowan from Cathay and Anand Stanley from Airbus, will be to help scale SAF towards 2030 and beyond. These two companies will also advocate for supportive…

Gen. James Mingus is currently vice chief of staff and has not publicly said he plans to step aside. He has been in the job less than two years, and it is typically a tenure that lasts at least three years.Officials in the Army and Hegseth’s office would not offer any details on Mingus’ apparent ouster and the effort to promote LaNeve, who is now Hegseth’s top military aide.Maj. Peter Sulzona, a spokesman for Mingus, told The Associated Press by email that he would not comment on pending nominations but that Mingus “will continue to execute the duties & responsibilities…

Avianca Cargo has expanded its network with two weekly flights to Maastricht in the Netherlands and an additional weekly flight to Florianopolis in Brazil.  Avianca Cargo launched the route to Maastricht Aachen Airport (MST) on Oct. 7, flying a 2013-vintage A330-200F (1380) from Miami (MIA) to MST. The following day, unit 1380 departed MST for […] source

Can supersonic flight ever return to the skies in a way that’s quiet, sustainable, and legal over land? That’s the question NASA hopes to answer with its sleek, needle-nosed experimental jet, the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology Demonstrator (QueSST). Having recently completed medium- and high-speed taxi tests at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, in September 2025, the aircraft has moved one step closer to redefining how fast, long-haul flight could sound, or rather, not sound, to those below. As part of the NASA–Lockheed Martin QueSST mission, the X-59 aims to prove that the infamous “sonic boom” of supersonic…