Category: Notizie Estero

BERN — With the future F-35A combat aircraft, the three military airfields will see a reduction of around half in the take-offs and landings that were required with the old F/A-18 C/D and F-5 aircraft. The F-35A is certainly a little noisier when taking off, but thanks to the reduction in the numb…

Since 2002, the Missile Defense Agency has received over $174 billion to develop systems that detect, track, and defeat enemy missiles.

However, we found that the agency’s cost estimates for these systems are incomplete. For instance, they don’t include full life-cycle cost estimates for programs…

MADRID — NATO has proposed to Russia to conduct joint consultations on reducing threats in space and urged Moscow to refrain from testing anti-satellite weapons, Spain’s El Pais newspaper wrote on Wednesday, publishing the full text of US and NATO confidential responses to Russia’s proposals on se…

NELLIS AFB, Nev. — For the first time, an all-military team of cyber Airmen from the 388th Operations Support Squadron deployed the F-35A Lightning II’s Autonomic Logistics Information System to support the 421st Fighter Squadron at Red Flag, the Air Force’s premier large-force exercise.

Whil…

KOLKATA, India — The marine version of the French-made Rafale fighter jet has been successfully flight-tested at a shore-based facility in Goa where conditions similar to that on the indigenously-developed aircraft carrier INS Vikrant were simulated, a top diplomat said.

The Rafale-M is pitted …

Hanwha Defense signed a contract on February 1 to provide a package of self-propelled howitzers and its support vehicles to the Egyptian Armed Forces.

The contract is valued around $1.7 billion for hundreds of the K9 Self-Propelled Howitzer (SPH), K10 Ammunition Resupply Vehicles, and K11 Fire Di…