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France's civil security chief said an Airbus A400M fitted with a firefighting kit will fly its first operational wildfire mission within 10 to 15 days, as fires have already burned twice the area recorded by this point last year.
The NATO Summit Defence Industry Forum in Ankara produced a wave of transatlantic arms agreements on July 7, 2026, led by Europe's first ATACMS production line, a four-nation Triton drone buy, and a new Polish cruise-missile plant.
JS Nagara joined the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force on June 29, 2026, the tenth of a stealth frigate class built to operate with a third of a destroyer's crew.
A Hellenic Air Force F-16C caught fire in flight and made an emergency landing at Zakynthos International Airport on July 9, 2026; the pilot escaped unhurt but the jet was engulfed in flames on the runway.
Naval Group handed over the nuclear-powered attack submarine De Grasse to the French defense procurement agency and the French Navy at Cherbourg on June 24, 2026, the fourth of six Suffren-class boats built under the Barracuda program to replace the Rubis class.
A quarter-century after VFA-115 declared the type operational in September 2001, the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet remains the backbone of US carrier air wings even as the last new-build airframes approach delivery.
Fifty years after the first operational F-15A arrived at Langley Air Force Base on January 9, 1976, the Eagle remains in frontline service with six air forces and in production as the F-15EX Eagle II.
The trinational GCAP Agency on July 3 awarded a £4.6 billion ($6.1 billion), 18-month contract to Edgewing, the BAE Systems-Leonardo-JAIEC joint venture, to complete concept work and begin detailed design of the sixth-generation fighter targeted for service entry in 2035.