Fresh air-to-air photos released on Chinese and foreign social media within the last forty-eight hours show two J-35 prototypes – serials 3501 and 3506 – in razor-sharp clarity. The images answer long-standing questions about the fighter’s finish, engines, and deck-handling features, while offering new clues on production status.
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WASHINGTON — The Chinese spacecraft Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 have come within docking range high over the equator twice this month, and data suggest a third close pass is hours away. According to industry sources, the two satellites occupy nearly identical geostationary slots and have matched speed, altitude, and longitude with meter-level precision.
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France will pour €717 million into Eutelsat Group. The cash comes through the State Shareholdings Agency and lifts the state’s holding to 29.99 percent, just under the takeover threshold. Finance officials frame the move as a hard push for European digital and industrial autonomy.
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PARIS – Collaborative Combat Aircraft, or CCAs, stepped onto the world stage this week at the Paris Air Show. Two full-scale mock-ups – Anduril’s Fury YFQ-44 and General Atomics’ YFQ-42 – drew steady crowds. Executives from both firms stressed one message: Europe can help build the fleet, not just buy it. Defense officials confirm that Washington supports the idea, marking a sharp break from past export cycles that delayed foreign access for years.
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The Defense-Aerospace editorial team has confirmed that Lockheed Martin is pressing ahead with the Hybrid Base Station upgrade for its Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod. The move clears a long-standing barrier that limited how much targeting and sensor data an F-35 could pass to other platforms. It also marks a rare case in which a proven external pod, rather than an aircraft’s internal avionics, becomes the core of a wider data-sharing network.
Air Transat will open a direct link between Toronto Pearson and Istanbul on 6 December 2025. The carrier says the flight will run every Tuesday and Saturday, all year, and will use its Airbus A330 wide-bodies. The move inserts Air Transat into a market that has lacked a second Canadian operator for more than a decade. According to industry sources, the interline deal signed the same day with Turkish Airlines gives the project an instant network boost.
Sweden will now aim to spend 3.5 percent of its gross domestic product on defense by 2032 instead of 2030. Officials confirmed the shift late Wednesday, only five days before NATO leaders gather in The Hague.
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Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has notified NATO headquarters that Spain will not accept a future rule requiring every ally to channel five percent of national output into defense. His letter, delivered late Thursday to Secretary-General Mark Rutte, calls the target “unreasonable” and warns that it would stretch the state budget and disrupt wider European security programs. Defense officials confirm the message reached Brussels in time to feature on next week’s summit agenda in The Hague – guaranteeing formal debate rather than corridor talk.
Lockheed Martin has entered a surge phase. More missiles leave its U.S. plants than ever, yet demand still outruns capacity. The company now courts European manufacturers to spread the load. According to industry sources, senior executives used the Paris Air Show this week to line up fresh joint ventures. Their pitch is blunt: new regional lines will cut delivery time, ease U.S. bottlenecks, and harden allied supply chains against disruption.
