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Airbus is close to finalising a C295 maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) development contract with Spain, at the same time as pitching a maritime surveillance aircraft (MSA)...

Led since June by Canadian lawyer Fra' John Dunlap, the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta - or more succinctly the Order of Malta - is more involved in Ukraine now than

According to two well-placed sources in the Chinese security apparatus, President Xi Jinping has asked Ding Xuexiang, Wang Huning and

Germany takes command of the NATO Response Force (NRF) Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) on 1 January, the alliance announced on its website on 28 December.

The Argentine Ministry of Defense (MoD) on 27 December signed a contract with the Israeli MoD's Directorate of International Defense Cooperation to buy Uvision's...

Did you know even C-2 Greyhound aircraft perform the famous “Shit Hot Break”? The “break” is the tight turn performed by aircraft recovering aboard a carrier to enter the downwind leg of the traffic pattern. [...]

The post From The Cockpit: C-2A COD Pilot Performs His First ‘Shit Hot Break’ appeared first on The Aviationist.

Airbus is confident that Spain will order further Eurofighter (C.16 in national service) combat aircraft, in addition to the Project Halcon jets contracted earlier in...

Austria has signed a declaration of intent (DOI) with Italy to acquire an additional 18 Leonardo AW169 medium-twin helicopters.

Indonesia's state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL has fully integrated the BAE Systems Bofors 57 Mk3 naval gun on the country's third and fourth KCR-60M-class fast attack craft...

Meta's Threat Report on the Surveillance-for-Hire Industry, published on 15 December, heralds a turning point for open source intelligence (OSINT) specialists. Most of the companies named in the report, and subsequently banned by Facebook's parent company, are OSINT firms.The report

Chinese Huawei has reportedly lost the ticket to provide the Turkish armed forces (TSK) with data network services, currently provided

Some Israeli and U.S. F-35s among the aircraft affected by a technical directive issued by the F-35 Joint Program Office. Some F-35s, including at least 11 F-35s of the Israeli Air Force, and an unspecified [...]

The post ‘Small Number’ Of U.S. And International F-35s Grounded After F-35B Incident At Fort Worth appeared first on The Aviationist.

The MQ-1C Predator A+ Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) has been retired after 18 years and +30,000 flight hours. On Dec. 19, 2022, with a transfer flight from the 61° Gruppo (Squadron) APR (Aeromobili a [...]

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Sweden's Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) has awarded Saab a contract to extend the operational life of two of the Royal Swedish Navy's (RSwN's) five Koster-class...

Members of President Ilham Aliyev's family are often rewarded for their efforts to polish Azerbaijan's image abroad. Aliyev's sister-in-law, Nargiz Pashayeva, was for example awarded the honorary Sharaf Order on 13 December. Pashayeva, a career academic, has long been the

At the Tel Aviv Hilton on 6 December, a networking event organised by the Abrahamic Business Circle served as an

Extremely interesting footage shows the bow shock wave around an F-104 Starfighter flying supersonic. As already explained in a previous article, Piercarlo “Capone” Ciacchi is the Director of Flight Operations at Starfighters Aerospace. A former Italian [...]

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The South Korean government has signed a KRW302 billion (USD236 million) deal with Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) to acquire the company's Light Armed Helicopter...

South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has signed a KRW345 billion (USD270 million) contract with Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) to develop an...

Chinese military aircraft have conducted the largest breach of the Taiwan Strait median line to date.