| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases Airbus Wins $1.5Bn to Support US Army’s UH-72 Lakota Helicopters
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas --- Airbus has signed a follow-on Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) contract with the U.S. Army to provide spare parts, material, and engineering support for the Army’s entire UH... Ramstein: 20 Countries Offer New Military Aid to Ukraine, Including Harpoon Missiles
PENTAGON --- About 20 countries are sending new security assistance packages for Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said after concluding the second meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact... Raytheon Wins $521M for AN/SPY-6(V) Radars, AIM-9X Missile Production
Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Marlborough, Massachusetts, is awarded a $422,662,824 fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification to previously awarded contract N00024-22-C-5500 to exercise options ... Chinese Aircraft Carrier Concludes Three-Week Training Cruise
The Liaoning aircraft carrier group of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has reportedly returned to the East China Sea from its far sea training, and with over 300 aircraft sorties in so... Czechs Court Uruguay with L-39NG As It Looks for New Jet Trainer
Uruguay is looking for training aircraft. The Czech Republic offers not only pilot training, but also pilot training, service, maintenance and more advantageous financing through the Czech Export Bank... Greek Finances May Allow F-35 Deliveries to Begin After 2029
ATHENS --- Greece will be able to acquire the advanced F-35 aircraft starting in 2029, since outlays for other defense procurements leave no space in the country’s budget. Spending on military syst... Turkey Launches Type 214TN Sub, Plans Five More by 2027
ISTANBUL --- President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Monday that Turkey expects to complete and deliver the domestically-made submarines to the Turkish Naval Forces Command within five to six months. S... Italian Typhoons Reach Operational Milestone in Romania
RAMSTEIN, Germany --– After less than six months of operations, the Italian Eurofighter Typhoons stationed at Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base in Constanta have reached the goal of 1,000 flight hours on t... Australian Navy Tests Autonomous Technologies
About 40 new, innovative autonomous technologies are being tested and evaluated in the waters of Jervis Bay on Exercise Autonomous Warrior (AW22), which began last week. The two-week exercise is te... US Navy Deploys MQ-8C Fire Scout to Indo-Pacific on LCS
SAN DIEGO --– Northrop Grumman Corporation’s MQ-8C Fire Scout, the U.S. Navy’s autonomous, runway-independent helicopter system, made its second operational deployment, and first deployment to the Ind... Black Flag Familiarizes USAF with E-7A Wedgetail As First Delivery Due in FY27
EGLIN AFB, Fla. --- The 53rd Wing conducted Black Flag 22-1, bringing together four branches of the U.S. military and the Royal Australian Air Force in a first coalition test environment to identify e... Thales Alenia Space Wins €169M for COM2M Satellite Payloads
CANNES, France --- Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed an amendment to its CO2M contract worth €169 million with project prime contractor OHB Syste... Austria to Evaluate Rheinmetall’s Counter-UAV Systems
The Austrian armed forces have selected Rheinmetall’s C-sUAS system for a six-month period of testing and evaluation. In May 2022 Rheinmetall Air Defence AG shipped the latest version of its rapidly d... CRS Report on Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon
The US Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), with a reported range of 1,725 miles, consists of a ground-launched missile equipped with a hypersonic glide body and associated transport, support, ... UK Looks at Mitigating Wind Farm Effects on Air Defense Radars
There has never been sharper focus on the importance of both offshore wind’s contribution to UK energy security and net zero, and the importance of effective and robust defence of the UK homeland. ... UK MoD Launches Review into Failure of Ajax Program
Announcing the lead and terms of reference of the Ajax Lessons Learned Review. On 29 March 2022, the Minister for Defence Procurement announced to Parliament how the Department would progress the f... FRCE Expands Support Capabilities for F-35 Components
CHERRY POINT, N.C. --- Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) has expanded its support of next-generation naval aviation by declaring capabilities on a new round of F-35 components. These capabilities bui... Strengthening Civil-Military Cooperation on Aviation with NATO Support
Last week, the NATO Aviation Committee met in Rome (Italy) to discuss prospects of future civil-military cooperation on aviation. The event was co-organized by NATO and the Italian Air Force. The N... Saab Wins Swedish Order for Torpedo Tubes for Surface Ships
Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration for a new torpedo tube for lightweight torpedoes. The order value is approximately SEK 150 million, and there is an option t... Latvia Asks US Congressmen for Increased Military Support
Today, 23 May, Defense Minister Artis Pabriks met with US Congressmen Don Bacon, Ruben Gallego and Sara Jacobs to discuss the current geopolitical situation surrounding Russia's war in Ukraine, Latvia... Chinese Army Tests New Armored Recovery Vehicle
With a new type of armored recovery vehicle demonstrating its capabilities in a recent exercise in the Karakoram Mountains, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Xinjiang Military Command has rec... | 
