Federal Aviation Administration Lets Boeing Certify 35 777 Freighters Past Emissions Cutoff
Boeing can preserve a current-generation cargo-aircraft option while its replacement remains delayed, but the bridge comes with a measurable environmental…
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Drone Attacks Halt Two Rosneft Refineries, Adding Pressure to Fuel Supplies
Drone attacks stopped crude processing at two Rosneft-owned refineries in the Volga River cities of Syzran and Saratov, creating overlapping…
Air Force Studies Reviving Boeing C-17 Production Versus Building New Airlifter
The U.S. Air Force has moved a once-speculative idea into a formal procurement study: whether Boeing can restart production of…
Korea Aerospace Industries Drone Crashes as Six Demos Falter, Vendors Investigate
Six of 17 demonstrations at South Korea’s first Defense Drone Technology Exhibition did not go as planned, including the crash…
Russia May Use Up to 25,000 North Koreans in Drone Production
Twenty-five thousand workers would represent a major labor pool for any drone-manufacturing operation. But in Russia, that figure remains an…
Boeing Says 17,000-Worker Strike Could Halt 777-9 Approval, Slow 737 Output
Boeing is trying to increase 737 production while protecting 777-9 certification work, but both efforts now depend on constraints it…
SpaceX Plans First Orbital Starship Flight Without a Tower Catch
Starship’s next flight is built around a conspicuous trade: SpaceX plans to send the vehicle into orbit for the first…
LG Energy Solution Says EV-Size Solid-State Batteries Still Resist Mass Production
Solid-state battery prototypes are already moving cars, but that does not mean factories can make the same technology reliably, affordably…
Kherson Covers 250 Road Kilometers, Plans 350 Against Drones
More than 250 kilometers of roads in Ukraine’s Kherson region now have overhead nets intended to reduce the threat that…
Brightline West Faces $400 Million Deadline While Seeking $6 Billion Federal Loan
Brightline West is approaching a Nov. 2, 2026, deadline to provide $400 million in private equity while pursuing a $6…
Tesla Update Can Start Supervised Steering When Emergency Braking May Fall Short
Braking reduces speed along the vehicle’s existing path; steering changes that path. Tesla is now combining those two forms of…
New Air Force One’s Secure Communications Baseline May Expire a Year Before 2029 Delivery
The two delayed aircraft intended to become the next Air Force One fleet face an unusual timing problem: Their reported…
Volvo EX40 Exit Would Raise Cheapest U.S. EV Price to $59,795
Volvo’s withdrawal of the EX40 would lift the starting price of its least-expensive U.S. electric vehicle from $56,545 to $59,795—a…
Ukrainian Drone Strike Halts Yaroslavl Refinery With 73% of Capacity Offline
A Ukrainian drone strike reportedly halted crude processing at the Slavneft Yaroslavnefteorgsintez refinery in Russia’s Yaroslavl region on September 18,…
US Approves Proposed $24.3 Billion Saudi F-35 Package, Contract Not Final
$24.3 billion is the estimated ceiling for a proposed Saudi package covering 48 Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters, 49 Pratt &…
Tengiz Output Reportedly Halves After Drone-Related Black Sea Terminal Closure
Output at Tengiz, Kazakhstan’s largest oilfield, reportedly fell to about 406,000 barrels per day on Wednesday from a July average…
2027 Ford F-150 Gets Larger V6, Same Output, Earlier Torque
The 2027 Ford F-150’s new standard engine is larger than the V6 it replaces, yet its headline output does not…
Ukrainian Commander Says Ground Robots Survive Just Three or Four Missions
Ukraine is rapidly expanding its ground-robot fleet, but one commander says machines operating near Kupiansk now survive only three or…