Yearly Archive: 2020

PARIS — Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, announced in June 2020 the military component of the aerospace support plan. This included advance orders for three A330-200 aircraft, the first of which has now been delivered to the French Air and Space Force.

The aircraft was flown on Thu…

The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) received from Embraer the first modernized E-99M aircraft. The delivery ceremony took place on Friday (27), in Gavião Peixoto (SP), and was attended by the Air Force Commander, Lt. Brig. Antonio Carlos Moretti Bermudez, who was welcomed by the President & CEO of Embraer…

ROME — Leonardo announced today that the Polícia Rodoviária Federal (PRF) of Brazil will introduce into service six AW119Kx single engine helicopters. The first aircraft is expected to be introduced in Brazil beginning next year, with the delivery of the remainder helicopters to the operator plann…

The President of the Republic and Supreme Commander of the Serbian Army, Aleksandar Vučić, and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Dr. Nebojsa Stefanović; the Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Army, General Milan Mojsilović, and the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Serb…

“The budget for 2021 is a budget for the defense of the country as a member of the NATO Alliance. This year we show that we respect the obligations, standards, criteria that we have accepted as a NATO member. That is why Northern Macedonia this year again increases the budget by 0.2% of GDP, moving …

Following Russia’s occupation of Ukraine’s Crimea region and invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014, many observers have linked Russia to additional malicious acts abroad.

U.S. and European officials and analysts have accused Russia of, among other things, interfering in U.S. elections in 2016; att…