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Netherlands And Poland Will Get The AGM-88G AARGM-ER

The Aviationist Blog - Mon, 29/04/2024 - 14:21

With the acquisition of their first anti-radiation weapon, both countries are improving their capability to perform Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defense missions. The U.S. State Department has approved the possible Foreign Military Sale to the [...]

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Polish F-35s To Use Low Visibility Checkerboard

The Aviationist Blog - Mon, 29/04/2024 - 11:40

The low-visibility checkerboard (the Polish equivalent of a roundel) will replace the traditional white-red one on the Polish Air Force F-35 jets. According to a news piece published by Interia.pl on Apr. 28, 2024, Polish [...]

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United States : Washington without intelligence chief for top priority China

Intelligence Online - Mon, 29/04/2024 - 06:00
While US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a high-profile visit to Shanghai and Beijing last week, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) remained without a chief analyst for China, as it has done for weeks. According
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China/United States : Spy space race: US intelligence shadowing Chinese spy satellites

Intelligence Online - Mon, 29/04/2024 - 06:00
Intelligence Online has learned that a new US intelligence satellite has just been placed in exactly the same geosynchronous orbit
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China/Germany : The Western companies caught up in China's tech espionage network

Intelligence Online - Mon, 29/04/2024 - 06:00
The German federal public prosecutor's office announced on 22 April the arrest and indictment of three Germans suspected of involvement
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France : Presidential diplomatic reshuffle opens new ambassadorial appointments

Intelligence Online - Mon, 29/04/2024 - 06:00
Intelligence Online has learned that President Emmanuel Macron's Americas, Asia and Oceania adviser Walid Fouque will be stepping down from
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Russia : Russian military intel posing behind false flags to recruit sleeper agents in France

Intelligence Online - Mon, 29/04/2024 - 06:00
The Russian military intelligence service GU (formerly GRU) is actively seeking to recruit sources and agents of influence on French
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France/Ukraine/United Kingdom : Tracfin blacklists chauffeur, ex-MI6 chief speaks to parliament, Ukraine's Alpha sleuths in Paris

Intelligence Online - Mon, 29/04/2024 - 06:00
France - Tracfin says no to debt-ridden chauffeur with a penchant for prostitutesOn 1 March, the Paris administrative court upheld
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Armenia/United Kingdom : Sanctuary Counsel chosen to put Yerevan in contact with British defence companies

Intelligence Online - Mon, 29/04/2024 - 06:00
The government in Yerevan, which has already begun talks with Washington and Paris as part of a major swing towards
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New Advanced Travel Pod Designed For the F-35A Delivered To Eielson AFB

The Aviationist Blog - Sun, 28/04/2024 - 23:47

The MXU-1072/A 5th generation travel pod is carried inside the F-35A Lightning II’s weapons bays. A travel pod is usually an external fuel tank or canister, that has been adapted with an external door and [...]

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UK Secretary of Defence Reveals Italian Supply of Storm Shadow Missiles to Ukraine

The Aviationist Blog - Sun, 28/04/2024 - 21:08

UK’s Secretary of Defence unveiled that Italy, along with France and the UK, has supplied Storm Shadow/SCALP EG cruise missiles to Kyiv, and urged Germany to provide Taurus missiles. This is the first time Italy [...]

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Ukrainian Yak-52 Equipped With Machine Gun Shoots Down Russian UAV – Reports

The Aviationist Blog - Sat, 27/04/2024 - 23:20

In an engagement reminiscent of WWII dogfights, a Ukrainian training aircraft reportedly shot down a Russian drone. On Apr. 27, 2024, a Ukrainian Yak-52 training aircraft, shot down a Russian Orlan-10 drone over Odessa, according [...]

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General Atomics Mojave UAS Tested With Minugun Pods

The Aviationist Blog - Sat, 27/04/2024 - 19:09

The drone strafed targets on the ground during a live fire event earlier this month. General Atomics announced the successful testing of the Mojave Unmanned Aircraft System, equipped with M134 7.62 miniguns, which destroyed static [...]

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Sierra Nevada Corporation Will Build E-4B ‘Doomsday’ Plane Replacement

The Aviationist Blog - Sat, 27/04/2024 - 18:32

The new commercial derivative aircraft will replace the 1970s’ E-4B Nightwatch in the National Emergency Airborne Command Post role. Sierra Nevada Corporation has been awarded a contract, worth more than USD 13 billion, for the [...]

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Raytheon Tapped For Advanced Hawkeye | British Helicopters To Exercise With Finnish Air Force | FMS F-35 pilots Will Begin Training At Ebbing

Defense Industry Daily - Fri, 26/04/2024 - 06:00
Americas Raytheon won a $8,8 million deal for the procurement of 11 receiver mainframe assemblies in support of the E2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. The contract does not include options. All work will be performed in El Segundo, California. Work is expected to be completed by April 2027. Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support, Philadelphia, […]
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Azerbaijan/Czech Republic : Azerbaijan's security elite flocks to Carlsbad hotels favoured by Azeri presidential family

Intelligence Online - Fri, 26/04/2024 - 06:00
When they fancy a few days' rest out of sight, the top brass of DTX, Azerbaijan's domestic security service, make themselves at home in the Carlsbad region of the Czech Republic, more specifically in the town of Brezova. DTX boss
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Qatar : Qatari diplomats seek to secure their communications

Intelligence Online - Fri, 26/04/2024 - 06:00
The Qatari foreign ministry of Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who is also the emirate's prime minister, has for several
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Saudi Arabia : Riyadh considers buying European air defence systems rather than more costly US Patriot

Intelligence Online - Fri, 26/04/2024 - 06:00
Iran's air attack on Israel on 14 April can be expected to strengthen Riyadh's wish to boost its air defence
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China/Serbia : Beijing leads BRICS long march to Europe

Intelligence Online - Fri, 26/04/2024 - 06:00
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is seriously considering moving away from dreams of joining the European Union and instead joining the
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United Kingdom/United States : Mining financier active in China seeks to make inroads in Washington

Intelligence Online - Fri, 26/04/2024 - 06:00
The little-known owner of a British advisory and brokerage firm in the mining industry has registered to lobby in the
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