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Unither Advances Hydrogen-Electric R44 For Organ Delivery 

The latest flights advance United Therapeutics’ hydrogen-electric helicopter program beyond hover testing into more complex flight operations.

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The Week In Technology, May 11-15, 2026 

Hybrid-electric Shepard; deployable electric high-lift; laminar-flow UAS; and Leonardo’s advanced tiltrotor.

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Podcast: How Joby And Unither Are Pushing AAM Toward Real Operations

Editors examine Joby Aviation’s piloted New York City demos and Unither Bioelectronics’ hydrogen-electric R44 flights in Quebec as AAM moves closer to real-world deployment.

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Pearl 15 Hydrogen Tests Boost Rolls’ Confidence In Zero-Carbon Future 

As Rolls-Royce wraps up hydrogen-fueled engine tests, attention focuses on dual-fuel, combustion and cryogenic capabilities.

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Turkish Uncrewed Wingman Concepts Take Flight 

Turkey has joined the small club of countries that have demonstrated autonomous collaborative platform operations between crewed and uncrewed aircraft.

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Trumps besøk i Kina

 

How the Iran war could weaken Trump in his strongman showdown with Xi

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EU

 

Norge skal inn i EUs nye forsvarsprogram

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Missilforsvar

 

Now America and Its Allies Must Adapt

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NATOs infrastruktur under lupen

 

NATO’s 1.5% Infrastructure Spending Target

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Nye missiler

 

AIM-9 er populært kalt Sidewinder. Navnet er tatt fra en klapperslange som finnes i bl.a. Sonora ørkenen, ikke langt fra Williams AFB hvor jeg lærte å fly jagerfly. Slangen laget et interessant spor i ørkensanden. (Red.)

Smaller AIM-9X Could Give Drone Wingmen More Firepower

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USA i dag

 

US Navy open to building ships overseas, new plan says

(Military Times) The U.S. Navy released its fiscal 2027 shipbuilding plan Monday, laying out the possibility of the service turning to allied nations to build its vessels. Read More

Trump og gjengen sliter med å "få noe" på Kelly. (Red.)

Hegseth says Pentagon will review Mark Kelly’s US weapons stockpile remarks

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Hvordan ødelegge et demokrati ved hjelp av demokratiske midler? Oppskriften finner du i The Heritage Foundations` Project 2025 som Trump følger til punkt og prikke. (Red.)

by Zachary B. Wolf : Trump enlists the USPS in his election scheme; SCOTUS gives Alabama Republicans the go-ahead   I feel like a broken record with this newsletter, but the real-time changes at the margins of the US democracy are an incredible thing to see. There is obviously the ongoing redistricting war — in which Republicans appear to be gaining the upper hand, at least for this year. The breaking news Monday is that the US Supreme Court's conservative ruling bloc will allow Alabama to eliminate a congressional district held by a Black Democrat. CNN's John Fritze is tracking the development. Separately on Monday, Virginia Democrats appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn the state Supreme Court's rejection of voter-approved maps that could have greatly reduced the number of Republican members of Congress in the state. It'll be a case that hits home for some of the justices. Three members of the conservative bloc — Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett — live in Virginia. Meanwhile, Republican-led states in the South are still moving to gerrymander out of existence districts held by Democrats under maps that were previously drawn to protect Black representation. The coming midterm elections much more racially charged as mostly White Republicans, suddenly with new power from the Supreme Court, do everything they can to erase districts held by Black Democrats in the South. But there are other tweaks in the works. CNN's Gabe Cohen and Jeremy Herb explore how an executive order Trump signed in March would deputize the US Postal Service to police mail-in ballots. Trump has never trusted them even though he frequently votes by mail. Cohen and Herb write:     After years of baselessly casting vote by mail as a fraud magnet, Trump in March issued an executive order that would push USPS far beyond delivering ballots — and into the business of deciding who gets one.   That order has raised alarms inside the Postal Service over whether it can or should take on such a complicated and controversial role, sources told CNN, especially when it may need help from Trump and Republicans to steady its finances.   Under the order, the Postal Service would work with states to determine who can vote by mail and enforce that eligibility, flagging or rejecting ballots tied to people not on those lists. Voting-rights groups and some Democratic-led states say that’s an unconstitutional power grab: The Constitution gives states — not the president or USPS — control over election administration.   Their full report is for subscribers.   Th executive order is also the subject of lawsuits, so it's not clear what will happen by Election Day. But recall the Supreme Court's conservatives already expressed skepticism of mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day in oral arguments for a separate case earlier this year. Still, no amount of tinkering may protect the slim Republican majority in the House — or even the Senate — from a potential Democratic wave. If Democrats gain either chamber of Congress in November's election, it would continue an unprecedented streak of power changing hands with each US election in recent decades. I've looked at this in the past — CNN's Annette Choi did the visuals for our December story "Every election is a change election now." CNN's Ronald Brownstein on Sunday looked at why exactly that's the case. He found multiple interconnected reasons: Partisanship has calcified and feels immovable, so a small set of voters are determining who wins each election. In an era of more ideological politics, much of the country can't imagine being happy if their political opponents are in charge. No party has been able to win a significant governing majority in recent decades, which makes it harder to achieve much with legislation. Both parties, rather than work together, are using moves like budget reconciliation to keep the out-of-power party from getting a say. (Tax cuts, Obamacare and the supercharging of ICE were all enacted in this one-party way.) Presidents are seizing more and more power from Congress — and overreaching when they do.

Ukraina

 

Ukrainian drone strike on empty Baltic fuel depot prompts top-level resignation – in Latvia

A Ukrainian official said Russia is spoofing Ukraine's drones, diverting them to strike nearby Baltic nations instead of targets in Russia. Read More

Ukraine and Russia fight on despite US-mediated ceasefire

Russia and Ukraine reported fighting along their front line despite agreeing to a ceasefire from May 9 to May 11 as part of a Trump-led push for peace. Read More

Iran

 

Iranere og tilhengere av opposisjonspartiet NCRI samlet i Brussel tidligere i år for å kreve handling fra EU mot det de kaller politiske henrettelser i Iran. Demonstranter med plakater av fengslede personer som er henrettet. Sjekk bilde i artikkelen

 

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Debatt

Når regimet i Iran henretter unge mennesker, må Norge bryte tausheten

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Possibility of operation to retrieve Iran’s enriched Uranium appears to rise as negotiations sputter

(The War Zone) President Donald Trump on Monday alluded to the U.S. sending troops into Iran to retrieve its highly enriched uranium. Read More

Poll: Americans don’t think Trump has explained Iran war goals

(Reuters) Two out of three Americans think President Donald Trump has not clearly explained why the country went to war with Iran, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday that also showed his approval rating ticking up from the lowest level of his term. Read More

Trump says war on Iran not ‘done’ — but concerns rise about munitions shortages

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Frustrated Trump more seriously thinking of restarting combat operations in Iran: sources

Sources said a major decision on how to proceed is unlikely to be made before Trump’s departure to China, slated for Tuesday.

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US ballistic missile submarine appears in Mediterranean as tensions rise in Middle East

By 

Alison Bath

Stars and Stripes • May 11, 2026

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A Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine arrives in Gibraltar on May 10, 2026. Such submarines are undetectable launch platforms for ballistic missiles, providing the U.S. with its most survivable leg of the nuclear triad. (U.S. Navy)

NAPLES, Italy — A Navy ballistic missile submarine arrived in a British territory along the Mediterranean Sea this week, an unusual glimpse of one of the service’s stealthiest vessels coinciding with increasingly tense Middle East peace negotiations.

The submarine arrived for a port visit to Gibraltar on Sunday, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet said in a statement Monday. The Navy did not identify the submarine involved, but several ship watchers said it was USS Alaska.

Skikkelig røverhistorie

 

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Aviation24.be med nyheter

 

Aviation24.be In the 05/12/2026 edition:

Access road to Brussels Airport closed after gas leak, airport temporarily inaccessible by car KLM flight evacuated after suspicious Wi-Fi hotspot name sparks bomb scare Avianca expands U.S. operations with additional Miami and Fort Lauderdale flights Royal Jordanian launches new Dallas route as fifth U.S. destination Qatar Airways to launch Bogotá, Colombia, and Caracas, Venezuela, flights in July 2026 Lufthansa Group orders 20 new long-haul aircraft worth $7.7 billion from Airbus and Boeing Avinor reports stable April traffic in Norwegian airports as passenger growth continues in 2026 International repatriation flights from Tenerife begin after hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship MV Hondius Hundreds stranded in Cancún after TUI fly Boeing 787 technical failure cancels Amsterdam flight Norse Atlantic Airways announces crew furloughs and major cost-cutting measures

Arktis

Jeg legger den under Arktis siden Pituffik, Grønland, står på listen. Blir det ro der oppe nå mon tro? (Red.) 

Space Force to Overhaul Key Early Warning, Surveillance Radars Around the World

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Marines expand Arctic footprint with new Alaska rotation

(Military Times) The Marine Corps is moving deeper into Alaska with an initiative designed to build a more persistent presence in the Arctic and prepare service members for extreme cold-weather operations. Read More

Droner

 

Air Force MQ-9 downs aerial targets with cheap air-to-air missiles

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GA-ASI and USAF Demonstrate APKWS on MQ-9A Reaper

By The Editor on May 12, 2026 06:50 am

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. , in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, has conducted flight tests of an Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) using a USAF MQ-9A Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft. MQ-9A is produced by GA-ASI. The testing took place recently at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). The demonstration featured multiple types […]

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TOP TEN INTERCEPTOR DRONES – Technical Ranking

By The Editor on May 12, 2026 06:30 am

Interceptor drones are fast-evolving and judging them on their technical qualities is not straightforward. They are not publicly benchmarked, many have classified specs and models evolve rapidly with new versions appearing every few months. Nevertheless, here is our assessment of the ten most technically advanced interceptor drones at the present time, ranked in reverse order. […]

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DARPA Wants Drone Swarms Packed into Unassuming Containers

By The Editor on May 12, 2026 06:20 am

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is asking for concepts for drones with a high degree of autonomous operation, as well as remotely-operated containerized systems to launch, recover, and otherwise support them. What DARPA is really interested in is a pairing that can be employed as part of a largely self-sustaining “autonomous constellation” capable of supporting […]

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Decoy UAS: Smart Air Defence

By The Editor on May 12, 2026 06:10 am

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have emerged as essential tools not only for surveillance and reconnaissance, but also for territorial defense, thanks to their ability to serve as countermeasures by shooting down other UAS or acting as decoys capable of protecting manned aircraft and other surveillance UAS. Decoy UAS are designed to simulate the electronic and […]

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DARPA Pursuing Containerized Drone Swarms

Remotely triggered containerized drone swarms, potentially placed behind enemy lines, create a hard-to-defend-against threat from pretty much everywhere

Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone