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Royal Navy Carrier Completes F-35 Trials After 2 Months
Britain’s new aircraft carrier has ‘eclipsed aspirations’, successfully completing two months of intensive fast jet trials in the USA. F-35 Lightning stealth fighters have left HMS Queen Elizabeth

French-German Statement on Joint Fighter, Tank Programs
Following Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron's joint statement in the summer of 2017, expressing the political will to strengthen European defence by jointly developing future-orie

France Touts Innovative FTI Intermediate Frigate Design
The first intermediate-size frigate will be delivered in 2023 to the French Navy. Never before has a French frigate of this tonnage been so powerfully equipped or endowed with so many technological in

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Royal Navy Carrier Completes F-35 Trials After 2 Months
Britain’s new aircraft carrier has ‘eclipsed aspirations’, successfully completing two months of intensive fast jet trials in the USA. F-35 Lightning stealth fighters have left HMS Queen Elizabeth ...

French-German Statement on Joint Fighter, Tank Programs
Following Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron's joint statement in the summer of 2017, expressing the political will to strengthen European defence by jointly developing future-orie...

France Touts Innovative FTI Intermediate Frigate Design
The first intermediate-size frigate will be delivered in 2023 to the French Navy. Never before has a French frigate of this tonnage been so powerfully equipped or endowed with so many technological in...

Norway Reluctant to Disclose Role of US Officer in Frigate Collision
A US officer had a central role on the bridge ahead of the collision, which may set the Norwegian Navy back its entire annual budget; however, he had no formal responsibility, the national broadcaster...

Sweden’s FMV Details MBDA Meteor BVRAAM Missile
When a Swedish air force pilot fires a Meteor missile, he does not need to see the target. It looks up its target, and the pilot communicates with the missile until impact. The radar-guided Meteor...

Embraer Completes KC-390 Troop Unloading and Evacuation Tests
SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil --– Embraer successfully completed the troop unloading, evacuation by hatch and evacuation tests through the front and rear doors of the KC-390 multi-mission medium airlift...

S Korea, US to Scale Back Military Drills Next Spring
WASHINGTON --- South Korea and the United States will scale back a joint military exercise next spring to facilitate negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim...

Vega Launcher Orbits Moroccan EO Satellite
Arianespace has successfully launched the Mohammed VI - B Earth observation satellite, developed for the Kingdom of Morocco by a consortium comprising Thales Alenia Space as system prime contractor an...

Record-Breaking Cargo Drop by RAF A400M Atlas
A Royal Air Force Atlas (A400M) has delivered a cargo load weighing 23 tonnes by parachute over Salisbury Plain in a record-breaking test of the transport aircraft’s next-generation capabilities. T...

MMP Battlefield Missile Endorsed by EU
The EU BLOS project aims at developing a family of BLOS missiles with back image and man in the loop capabilities. EU Defence ministers have endorsed on 19 November the EU BLOS (Beyond Line Of Sigh...

U.S. Setting Up Observation Posts on Syria-Turkey Border
WASHINGTON --- The U.S. military is setting up several observation posts in Syria beside the border with Turkey, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said. The purpose of the OPs is to provide Turkey ...

US Air Force’s Focus on Readiness Yields Results: AF Secretary
WASHINGTON --- From a distance, the idea – and operational meaning – of “readiness” for the U.S. Air Force seems straightforward. Be prepared. Have all the equipment, training and personnel necessa...

Maritime Deployments to Deepen UK-Ukraine Defence Partnership
The UK and Ukraine will continue to strengthen their defence partnership in the face of intensifying threats and aggression, the Defence Secretary reaffirmed today. In a meeting with the visiting U...

RAF Opens New Chinook Simulator Center
A new, purpose-built facility replicating real-life operations for Chinook helicopter crews with the very latest technology has been officially opened today. The Chinook Mk 6 synthetic training fac...

Thales Launches Broadband Tactical Software-Defined Radio Family
At Eurosatory 2016, Thales announces the launch of SYNAPS, the new broadband tactical software-defined radio family designed to support battlespace digitisation and C4I systems. In addition to hierarc...

Cobham Welcomes QinetiQ to their ASDOT Team
QinetiQ joins Cobham team to deliver the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) Air Support to Defence Operational Training (ASDOT) programme. Cobham, with its unique pedigree as the MoD’s partner for operat...

Australian-Made F-35A Deployable Cabins Ready for Operations
The Minister of Defence, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, and the Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Steven Ciobo MP have welcomed the Department of Defence’s acceptance of the first two (of 15) F-35A...

Tri-Lateral Mine Warfare Exercise Puts RAN Minehunters to the Test
At the largest gathering of mine warfare dedicated vessels seen in Japanese waters, HMA Ships Gascoyne and Huon have joined with 22 ships from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the Uni...

Finnish AF Names First Woman Fighter Squadron Commander
As of early 2019, the Karelia Air Command’s Fighter Squadron 31 will be led by Finland’s first female squadron commander, Lieutenant Colonel Inka Niskanen. She is the highest-ranking woman ever in ...

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