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September 29, 2025
AEROSPACE
India signs $7 bn deal for 97 domestically made fighter jets



New Delhi (AFP) Sept 29, 2025
India on Thursday signed a $7 billion order for 97 domestically designed and built Tejas fighter jets as its air force retires its outgoing Russian MiG-21 jets after decades of use. The first Tejas jets - meaning "brilliance" in Hindi - were commissioned into the airforce in 2016, with the latest commission for the fourth-generation version of the fighter, Mk-1A. India, one of the world's largest arms importers, has made the modernisation of its forces a top priority, and made repeated pushes ... read more

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AEROSPACE
France doubles down on threat to build future fighter jet alone
Paris (AFP) Sept 29, 2025
France is in a position to develop a next-generation combat aircraft alone should negotiations with Germany and Spain fail, a government official said Wednesday. ... more
MISSILE NEWS
US approves $1.2 bn missile sale to Germany
Washington (AFP) Sept 29, 2025
The United States on Thursday announced the approval of a $1.23 billion sale of up to 400 advanced air-to-air missiles and related equipment to NATO ally Germany. ... more
GPS NEWS
SATNUS completes third NGWS flight campaign with autonomous systems integration
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
SATNUS has carried out its third flight test campaign for the Next Generation Weapon System (NGWS), marking significant progress toward the program's Phase 1B demonstrations. The trials centered on ... more
OIL AND GAS
Venezuela claims 'impregnable' defenses; experts doubtful
Caracas (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
Faced with a major US naval build-up near its waters, Venezuela has flexed its muscle by conducting military exercises, arming civilians and deploying thousands of troops to its land and sea borders. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Pentagon bans reporters from accessing unauthorized info
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 20, 2025
Journalists covering the Pentagon will have to pledge to access only authorized information or lose their press credentials, the Department of War announced Friday. ... more
SPACEWAR
Germany pledges EUR35 bn for space defence against Russia, China
Berlin (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
Germany will spend 35 billion euros ($41 billion) on outer space defence by 2030, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said Thursday, citing the threat posed by Russia and China. ... more
MILPLEX
Indian armoured vehicle factory inaugurated in Morocco
Rabat (AFP) Sept 23, 2025
A factory producing Indian infantry combat vehicles was inaugurated in Morocco on Tuesday, the two sides said, in a move underscoring the South Asian giant's widening defence footprint. ... more
NUKEWARS
Pakistan extends nuclear umbrella to Saudi Arabia: source close to govt
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Sept 21, 2025
Pakistan's nuclear umbrella will cover Saudi Arabia, a source close to the kingdom's government told AFP on Sunday, days after the two allies signed a surprise mutual defence treaty. ... more

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NUKEWARS
Iran says it has documents linked to Israel nuclear programme
Tehran (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
Iranian state television on Wednesday broadcast images of documents and footage it said relate to Israel's nuclear activities - which Israel, Tehran's sworn enemy, has never officially confirmed nor denied. ... more
NUKEWARS
North Korea could have up to 2 tonnes of highly enriched uranium: Seoul
Seoul (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
North Korea is believed to possess up to two tonnes of highly enriched uranium, South Korea's unification minister said Thursday. ... more
NUKEWARS
Europe imposes 'snapback' sanctions on Iran's nuclear program
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 28, 2025
A decade after they were lifted, economic and military sanctions were reimposed on Iran Sunday over its nuclear program. ... more
SUPERPOWERS
NATO's 'eyes in sky' scour eastern flank for Russian threats
Aboard A Nato Aircraft, Poland (AFP) Sept 20, 2025
In a NATO surveillance plane some 10,000 metres above eastern Poland, air force officers from a half dozen countries scanned screens for any sign of Russian aircraft breaching the alliance's borders. ... more
SUPERPOWERS
NATO sticks to guns as allies talk tough on Russian jets
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
After high-profile violations of NATO airspace by Russia over Poland and Estonia, alliance members have appeared at odds over how forcefully to react. ... more
CYBER WARS
Israel links crypto wallets, $1.5B to Iran's Revolutionary Guard
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 15, 2025
Israel's Ministry of Defense announced Monday the seizure of 187 cryptocurrency wallets that have received $1.5 billion. Israel says the wallets are linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, which has been designated as a terrorist group. ... more
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TAIWAN NEWS
Taiwan sentences 4 ex-ruling party members on China spying
Taipei (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
A Taiwan court handed jail terms Thursday ranging from four to ten years to four people, including a former staffer in President Lai Ching-te's office, for spying for China. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Chinese firms pay price of jihadist strikes against Mali junta
Abidjan (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
Jihadists allied to Al-Qaeda have launched a blitz of raids on Malian industrial sites run by foreign firms, especially Chinese, as a tactic to undermine the ruling junta. ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structures
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
Boeing has introduced a 3D-printed solar array substrate design that cuts composite build times by as much as six months for a typical solar wing assembly, representing up to a 50 percent faster pro ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Kinetica 2 rocket on track for inaugural mission in 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
CAS Space, a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is completing development of its new Kinetica 2 rocket and aims to launch it before the end of 2025. The company confirmed that the first ... more
TECH SPACE
NASA begins testing PExT wideband communications system in orbit
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
Payload commissioning has started for NASA's Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT), a pioneering wideband space communications technology designed to connect spacecraft with both government and c ... more
SPACEMART
SFL Missions to Deliver Spacecraft Buses for HawkEye 360 RF Signal Detection Expansion
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
SFL Missions Inc. has secured a contract to build spacecraft bus units for three new HawkEye 360 satellite clusters, adding nine spacecraft to the company's expanding constellation for RF signal det ... more
GPS NEWS
Russia blamed for GPS attack on Spanish defence minister's plane
Madrid (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
A plane carrying Spain's defence minister suffered an attack on its GPS navigation while flying near Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad on Wednesday, a ministry source said, the latest such incident blamed on Moscow. ... more
SUPERPOWERS
Trump to attend meeting with hundreds of senior U.S. military officers
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 28, 2025
President Donald Trump said Sunday that he will attend a meeting organized by Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth that aims to gather hundreds of senior military officers near Washington this week. ... more
CYBER WARS
Wiretapping scandal goes to court in Greece
Athens Sept 24, 2025
A trial linked to the illegal wiretapping of politicians and journalists using the spy software Predator opens on Wednesday in Greece, three years after a scandal that rocked the country. ... more
AEROSPACE
We can build fighter jet without Germany: France's Dassault
Cergy-Pontoise, France (AFP) Sept 23, 2025
The head of French defence company Dassault said on Tuesday his firm could build the future European fighter jet by itself, as tensions persist with Germany over the multi-billion-euro project. ... more
WAR REPORT
Zelensky condemns 'vile' Russian attack that lasted 12 hours
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 28, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday condemned a "vile" Russian airstrike that lasted more than 12 hours overnight Saturday, killing at least four people in Kyiv. ... more
THE STANS
China's President Xi makes rare visit to Xinjiang
Beijing (AFP) Sept 23, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping began a rare visit Tuesday to the northwest region of Xinjiang, home to numerous ethnic groups including Turkic-speaking Uyghurs, the official Xinhua news agency reported. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION
Planet captures first light from Pelican-3 satellite as constellation expands
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has released the first light image from its Pelican-3 satellite, capturing Turin, Italy on September 5 from an altitude of 458 km. The spacecraft, launched on August 26 ab ... more
WATER WORLD
New U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Will Help Safeguard Ships at Sea
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2025
Sea surface height data from the Sentinel-6B satellite, led by NASA and ESA, will help with the development of marine weather forecasts, alerting ships to possible dangers. Because most global ... more
WATER WORLD
What is the high seas treaty?
United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
The high seas treaty aims to protect marine life in ocean waters worldwide that no country can claim as its own. ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Orbital Internet Exchange plans unveiled by DE-CIX
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2025
DE-CIX, the world's largest operator of Internet Exchanges, is extending its interconnection model beyond Earth. Through its Space-IX program, the company is laying the foundation for the first orbi ... more
TRADE WARS
Ukraine slams Chinese cargo ship for visiting occupied Crimea
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 23, 2025
Ukraine on Tuesday slammed repeated visits by a Chinese cargo ship to the port of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea despite Western sanctions on vessels docking in the peninsula. ... more
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