| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases Russia Flies First Post-Soviet Passenger Airliner with Domestic Engines
On the 15th of December 2020 the MС-21-310 aircraft equipped with the new Russian PD-14 engines made its maiden flight from the airfield of Irkutsk Aviation Plant, a branch of Irkut Corporation (part ... Israel Tests New David’s Sling SAM as Part of Integrated Air Defense Net
TEL AVIV --- The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO), of the Directorate for Defense R&D in the Ministry of Defense, together with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), have successfully compl... Turkey Slams US Sanctions Over Russian Missile Purchase
ISTANBUL --- The Trump administration’s decision to sanction NATO ally Turkey over the purchase of a Russian missile system has drawn swift Turkish condemnation. For now, however, Ankara appears to be... Thales Alenia Wins Contract for Two Italian Military Satellites
ROME --- Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio have signed the contracts with the Italian Ministry of Defence and with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), to launch the development of two additional satellit... US Navy Investigates Possible New LCS Design Flaw
WASHINGTON --– Repeated failures in the propulsion train on the Freedom-class littoral combat ships Little Rock and Detroit have raised the specter of a class-wide design flaw that could trigger an ex... Turkey to Export First Anka UAVs to Tunisia
ISTANBUL --- Leading Turkish defense industry firm Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) is to make its first Anka medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) export to Tunisia, l... US Clears $550M Sale of Two Gulfstream G550 EW Aircraft
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Italy of Gulfstream G550 Aircraft with Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance,... Russia Orders Six Corvettes for Pacific Fleet
MOSCOW ---. Russia’s Defense Ministry and the Amur Shipyard in the Russian Far East have signed a contract on building six Project 20380 and 20385 corvettes, the ministry’s press office reported on Tu... Sweden to Increase Troops by 50%, Plans New Sub and New Warships
The Total Defence Bill approved on 15 December entails a significant and necessary change of directions for the Swedish total defence. The reinforcement of the total defence that has already been init... Ukraine Orders Corvettes, Combat Drones from Turkey
Today, Minister of Defence of Ukraine Andrii Taran signed agreements with Turkish companies on technology transfer and production of corvettes and combat UAVs for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukra... Lame-Duck Shipbuilding Plan Requires $45 Bn in Offsets
The U.S. Navy has released the long-awaited update to its 30-year shipbuilding plan. The public release of the strategy document was delayed early this year when then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper ques... Chinese J-10, Su-30 Fighters Conduct Dissimilar Air Combat Training
J-10 and Su-30 fighter jets of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy recently conducted mock dogfights that experts said on Tuesday not only let pilots better understand other types of aircr... Arianespace to Launch Eutelsat’s Next-Gen Satellite
Arianespace and Eutelsat have confirmed that EUTELSAT 10B, Eutelsat’s next generation high-throughput telecommunications satellite, will be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket. EUTELSAT 10B is scheduled... Aerojet Demos Scalability of Air-Breathing Scramjet Engine
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. --- Aerojet Rocketdyne and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have achieved record levels of thrust by a scramjet engine 10 years after making history by powering the first hydr... Elbit Wins $50M for Additional Dutch Army Soldier Systems
HAIFA, Israel --- Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that it was awarded an approximately $50 million follow-on contract from the Dutch Ministry of Defence (Dutch MOD) to supply the Royal Netherlands ... Travis AFB First to Deploy Automated Aerial Security Solution
TRAVIS AFB, California --- - The 60th Air Mobility Wing, 60th Security Forces Squadron, in conjunction with Easy Aerial, a commercial provider of autonomous drone-based monitoring solutions, has devel... Hanwha Signs Joint Defense Research Pact with US
South Korea’s leading defense group Hanwha signed a major agreement with the US military on collaborative research and development of key defense items and technologies. The Cooperative Research a... EXPAL Demos New Dual-EIMOS Mortar to Spanish MoD
EXPAL has reached an important milestone in the development of the new Dual-EIMOS on-board mortar system, which is completing its validation under the UTEX Experimental Tactical Unit program with the ... Indra Delivers Second NH90 Simulator to Spanish Military
MADRID --- Indra delivered the latest FMS (Full Mission Simulator) on November 23 to the NH90 Simulator Center, which has been in operation at the Spanish Army’s Aviation Academy (ACAVIET) CESIHEL Cen... Boeing Wins $109M Contract for New Zealand P-8 Training
OHAKEA, New Zealand --- The U.S. Navy recently awarded Boeing a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract, valued at $109 million, to provide P-8A Poseidon training for the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RN... China, Russia Extend Notification of ICBM and Space Launches
BEIJING --- Approved by the heads of state of China and Russia, Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held a video conference and s... Patria Ships AMVXP Test Vehicles to Japan for Evaluation
Patria AMVXP8x8 vehicles have now been sent from Finland to Japan for test purposes. These vehicles are part of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force’s project called the Next Wheeled Armored Vehicle... Saab, Rolls-Royce to Research Innovative Propulsion Sensing Technology
Saab and Rolls-Royce are undertaking a joint research programme into fibre-optic sensing technologies for aerospace propulsion systems. Fibre-optic sensing technologies have the potential to provid... Russian Firm Develops Electric Motor to Protect Tropical Helicopters
The Technodinamika Holding of Rostec State Corporation has developed an electric motor for use in a dust protection device for tropical versions of helicopters. The device was developed as part of the... Northrop BACN Comms Relay Passes 200,000 Combat Flight Hours
SAN DIEGO --- Northrop Grumman Corporation’s leading Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) gateway system reached 200,000 combat operational flight hours since its first deployment with the ... French Air Force Marks Ten Years of Rafale in UAE
Twelve years after the arrival of the first fighter planes on the "Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Pijeaud" air base belonging to the French Forces in the United Arab Emirates (FFEAU), the air detachment c... USAF Explores Supersonic Executive Transport
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio --– Always looking for new capabilities, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Presidential and Executive Airlift team is partnering with leading aviation companies to ex... | 
