Category: Notizie Estero

PARIS — Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, on June 10 convened a meeting of the Ministerial Investment Committee to launch the future ocean-going patrol vessel program.

Ten ocean patrol boats will replace the high-sea patrol boats (Patrouilleurs de Haute Mer, PHM) based in Brest and …

SIGONELLA, Italy. –– The NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Force (NAGSF), with support from Northrop Grumman Corporation, marked a significant milestone recently in the System Level Performance Verification with the completion of a nine-hour training and test flight conducted for the first time und…

Two F-35s destined for the Netherlands are currently carrying out test flights at the Italian Final Assembly and check-Out facility in Cameri, Italy, where the Leonardo company built these aircraft on behalf of the American company Lockheed Martin.

The two aircraft are expected to arrive at Leeu…

Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) on behalf of the Swedish Armed Forces to provide support and maintenance services for Gripen from 1 July 2020 to 31 March 2021. The total order value amounts to MSEK 687.

The order is a nine-month extension of a con…

ECA Group and SOACSY recently signed a licensing agreement giving ECA Group exclusive rights to exploit its developments using seaCHIRP technology based on SAS (Synthetic Aperture Sonar) for the detection of buried naval mines.

Naval mines are a real threat for seafarers and a navy’s daily concer…

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The CH-53K King Stallion completed a two-week period of sea trials in the Atlantic earlier this month. This was the first opportunity to see the aircraft working in a modern naval environment.

Testing took place on the USS Wasp, a landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious a…