Royal Thai Air Force Airbus Helicopters H225M Fleet Crosses 10,000 Flight Hours 29/11/2024 | Mike Rajkumar The Royal Thai Air Force recently celebrated the milestone of 10,000 flight hours, accumulated across its fleet of Airbus Helicopters H225M multirole utility helicopters. The… [leggi la notizia]

KAI Completes 1,000 Test Sorties on KF-21 Prototypes 29/11/2024 | Mike Rajkumar Korea’s Defence Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced on 29 November that 1,000 test sorties had been completed on the various KF-21 fighter protypes. The KF-21… [leggi la notizia]

Red Cat and TEAL secure the US Army contract for the Short-Range Reconnaissance drone 28/11/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli Red Cat, offering through its fully owned subsidiary TEAL the BLACK WIDOW drone, has been selected to supply the U.S. Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR),… [leggi la notizia]

Steadicopter anticipates the renaissance of (unmanned) army aviation 28/11/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone Steadicopter has recently expanded its product portfolio. The company's latest offering, the GOLDEN EAGLE HEAVY STRIKE (HS), represents a substantial leap forward in unmanned aerial… [leggi la notizia]

New deliveries (and customer countries?) for the Su-57 27/11/2024 | Andrea Mottola According to UAC - the Russian aerospace conglomerate that includes the main Russian aerospace companies (MiG, Sukhoi and Tupolev) -  the KnAAPO plant in Komsomolsk… [leggi la notizia]

ROKAF F-15K Upgrade Effort Moves Ahead 22/11/2024 | Mike Rajkumar The Republic of Korea’s plans for an upgrade of its F-15K ‘SLAM EAGLE’ fleet will move ahead following approval for the upgrade effort by the… [leggi la notizia]

MBDA reports progress in developing the Future Cruise & Anti Ship Weapon(s) 15/11/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli MBDA has reported progress on the development and trials of the two, complementary missiles that make up the Future Cruise and Anti Ship Weapon (FC/ASW)… [leggi la notizia]

Combat debut for the F-35C 14/11/2024 | TOMMASO MASSA Last weekend, several F-35Cs from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 (VMFA-314, the first Marine squadron to be embarked on an aircraft carrier), deployed aboard the… [leggi la notizia]

A new Chinese drone mothership 14/11/2024 | Editorial Team As part of the Zhuhai Air Show (in Guangdong Province), AVIC unveiled a new large drone “mothership”. It is an aircraft in the roughly 10-ton… [leggi la notizia]

Data link integration for the Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie and USMC F-35 08/11/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli The in-flight demonstration at Eglin involved F-35B from the VMFA-214 USMC Squadron and marked the first-ever joint force data link integration test. The aim of… [leggi la notizia]

GA-ASI and BAE Systems work together to bring EW and data link 16 to the MQ-20 AVENGER 07/11/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) joined forces with BAE Systems to demonstrate advanced electronic warfare capabilities backed by Data Link 16 waveform for secure… [leggi la notizia]

The new Directed Infrared Countermeasure (DIRCM) for the RAF achieves 100% success in trials 30/10/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli The new DIRCM solution, which the UK Ministry of Defence began to fund back in 2017, is planned to be fitted to a 'range' of… [leggi la notizia]

Germany boosts its missile capabilities with the new TAURUS 29/10/2024 | Editorial Team Defence Minister Boris Pistorius announced Germany's intention to purchase up to 600 examples of a new variant of the TAURUS long-range air-to-surface standoff missile. Of… [leggi la notizia]

Airbus demonstrated mock-up of uncrewed LAKOTA helicopter to the USMC 22/10/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli Airbus carried out cargo handling demonstrators for the USMC at Station New River and Base Camp Lejeune, using a mock-up of its proposed uncrewed LAKOTA… [leggi la notizia]

Leonardo UK launches BRITE STORM, a stand-in jammer for drones 17/10/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli Leonardo selected AUSA, the annual conference of the U.S. Army Association, to unveil the latest Electronic Warfare solution born in Luton (Leonardo UK headquarters). It… [leggi la notizia]

Sri Lanka Air Force Inducts Beechcraft King Air 360ER 11/10/2024 | Mike Rajkumar The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) has formally inducted a newly acquired Beechcraft KING AIR 360ER, which will be assigned to No. 03 Maritime Squadron… [leggi la notizia]

Dassault's UCAV Project Officially Takes Off 08/10/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone The announcement has been made today at a ceremony celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Strategic Air Forces (SAF, Commandement des Forces Aériennes Stratégiques) at… [leggi la notizia]

US Navy's air defence capability takes a step forward 07/10/2024 | Massimo Annati Over the past few days, a Boeing F/A-18F of Evaluation Squadron VX-9 from the Point Mugu naval range was spotted equipped with a decidedly impressive… [leggi la notizia]

Preview from FW 1/2024 - Inside Embraer’s Production Sites: KC-390 and More 27/09/2024 | Tommaso Massa FW Mag had the opportunity to visit Embraer's facilities in São José dos Campos (São Paulo State) and the final assembly line for the KC-390… [leggi la notizia]

Sweden plans to launch a satellite with a JAS-39 GRIPEN 19/08/2024 | Fabio Di Felice Swedish Air Force’s Space Division has announced that it will conduct a study on the feasibility of launching a small satellite into Space from a… [leggi la notizia]