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Volkswagen may be facing one of the most unusual crossroads in its history — and it has nothing to do with electric vehicles or emissions targets. A report circulating in recent days suggests the German automaker is exploring a potential partnership with Israeli defense firm Rafael Advanced Defense Systems that could see one of its factories transition away from building cars entirely. Instead, the facility could be repurposed to support components tied to Israel’s Iron Dome defense system. At t

PARIS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - This week, Airbus got a brutal reminder that even the world’s most-delivered jet - the A320 - isn’t immune to shocks as disparate as solar flares and flawed metal. Days after recalling 6,000 A320-series planes over a software glitch linked to cosmic radiation, the European giant was ​forced to slash delivery targets when defects surfaced in some of their fuselage panels.