Monthly Archive: Novembre 2020

GAO examined 46 types of aircraft and found that only three met their annual mission capable goals in a majority of the years for fiscal years 2011 through 2019 and 24 did not meet their annual mission capable goals in any fiscal year as shown below. The mission capable rate—the percentage of total …

NASAMS is buying air defense missile systems from Kongsberg in Norway and Raytheon in the United States for the Hungarian Armed Forces, the Secretariat of the Government Commissioner for Defense Development has announced.

With the deployment of state-of-the-art short- and medium-range ground-base…

China’s latest commissioned and fully domestically made tactical utility helicopter, the Z-20, is expected to become the country’s most-delivered chopper by entering service with not only the Chinese army, but also the nation’s air, naval forces and armed police, with additional prospects of export …

PARIS — JS Kumano, the first of the 22 planned new-generation 30DX stealth frigates planned for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), was launched on Thursday at the Tamano shipyard of the Mitsui E&S group.

The ship is nominally the second in the class, but the first-of-class is sti…

NATO Allies Canada and Romania and NATO partner Australia joined the Maritime Unmanned Systems Initiative on 20 November 2020. The Maritime Unmanned Systems Initiative aims to strengthen the ability of navies to operate in a multinational context above, on, and under the water, in an increasingly co…

SOUTH CERNEY, Gloucestershire — The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps has been declared ‘combat ready’ after passing their combat readiness evaluation or CREVAL.

The ARRC has been presented with NATO’s new ‘warfighting guidon’, which it will hold throughout its tenure as NATO’s War Fighting Corps at …