Monthly Archive: Luglio 2020

New Artillery Munition Tested in Onera Wind Tunnel

New Artillery Munition Tested in Onera Wind Tunnel

From 25 May to 8 June 2020, Nexter Munitions carried out two major test campaigns of the KATANA ammunition in the S3MA wind tunnel at ONERA’s Modane site.

The 155mm KATANA technical team successfully tested the guidance function and ballistic behavior of the ammunition in this wind tunnel capabl…

First Class of Chinese Pilots Graduate on JL-10 Jet Trainers

First Class of Chinese Pilots Graduate on JL-10 Jet Trainers

BEIJING — The first batch of pilot cadets trained with JL-10, a new type of advanced jet trainer, all graduated with excellent performance from the Shijiazhuang Flight Academy under the PLA Air Force (PLAAF) in early July, qualified for the requirements of combat troops.

It is reported that, on…

US Deploys Several B-1 Bombers to Guam

US Deploys Several B-1 Bombers to Guam

ELLSWORTH AFB, S.D. — More than 150 Airmen from a variety of career fields and several B-1B Lancers from Ellsworth returned to the Indo-Pacific region July 17 to conduct Bomber Task Force operations out of Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.

Airmen and bombers from the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadr…

BEML Wins Indian Army Order for T-90 Mine Ploughs

BEML Wins Indian Army Order for T-90 Mine Ploughs

With an aim to boost ‘Make in India’ initiative of the Government, with the approval of Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh, Acquisition Wing of Ministry of Defence (MoD), has today signed a Contract with Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) for procurement of 1,512 Mine Plough (MP) for Tank T-90 S/SK at…
German Air Force Reinforces Patrolling of the Baltic Airspace

German Air Force Reinforces Patrolling of the Baltic Airspace

The Baltic airspace is protected by a German Eurofighter detachment that strengthen the Baltic Air Policing Mission conducted from Šiauliai. The German Air Force detachment from the Tactical Fighter Wing 21 deployed last week on the basis of bilateral agreement with the United Kingdom: it joined the…
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