Monthly Archive: Giugno 2020

THE HAGUE — The Dutch Ministry of Defence will replace the current M-frigates. The main task of the yet to be built future frigates is to combat submarines from a distance. This will be done with a new torpedo, launched from the ship or by its NH90 on-board helicopter.

This is the gist of the …

Lockheed Martin Corp. halted deliveries of its F-35 jets to the U.S. Air Force for much of this month because of a flaw in a system used to prevent explosions if fuel tanks are hit.

Flaws in tubing used to circulate inert gas into fuel tanks to prevent explosions were found in 14 of 24 Air Force …

China is developing electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons that can fry all electronics over vast distances and could deploy the weapons on its new hypersonic missiles, according to a report by a security group.

Peter Pry, a former CIA officer and now director of the EMP Task Force on National and H…

WHITE HOUSE — Germany’s loss would be Poland’s gain — that was the essence of a message U.S. President Donald Trump communicated on Wednesday, alongside Polish President Andrzej Duda, when he discussed the shifting of thousands of American troops in Europe.

The United States will probably move …

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 …

Today our organization is undergoing a profound transformation and we are facing an extraordinary challenge in the field of human resources. In this context, it was decided to reduce the operations of the Troop Transport Helicopter (TTH) variant of the NH90, and to take the B-Hunter UAV capability o…