South Korea Completes Tactical Air Navigation Equipment Modernisation 16/12/2024 | Mike Rajkumar South Korea’s Defence Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has announced the completion of a modernisation effort that has replaced tactical air navigation equipment at its air… [read more]

Korea Aerospace Industries Inks KF-21 PBL Contract 16/12/2024 | Mike Rajkumar Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has received a Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract from South Korea’s Defence Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) for the KF-21 4.5 generation… [read more]

GCAP: first flight tests of EXCALIBUR testbed completed 13/12/2024 | Andrea Mottola This week, in the UK, the EXCALIBUR testbed completed the first phase of a 5-flight campaign, for a total of 14 hours and 45 minutes, started on… [read more]

Bombardier delivers the first Global 6500 for the US Army’s HADES Project 02/12/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli On Monday 25 November, with a ceremony in Wichita, Texas, Bombardier Defense delivered its first Global 6500 business jet to the US Army, ahead of… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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),… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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)… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]