Yearly Archive: 2020

LORIENT, France — Naval Group has launched the FREMM Lorraine [here] on Friday 13th November. This ship was ordered by the French General Directorate of Armament (DGA) on behalf of the French Navy. The program management is entrusted to the Organization for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR). The …

Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) System has achieved a major milestone by a direct hit on to a Banshee Pilotless target aircraft at medium range & medium altitude.

The missile launch took place from ITR Chandipur on 13th Nov 2020 at 1550 hrs off the Odisha Coast. The missile is prope…

Norway has one of the world’s five workshops for the maintenance of the engines of the F-35 fighter aircraft. “This is the starting point for Norwegian maintenance of the F-35 and an important milestone in the F-35 cooperation,” says Minister of Defense Frank Bakke-Jensen.

The government has for …

On Tuesday November 10, 2020, the multi-mission frigate (FREMM) FS Bretagne successfully fired a naval cruise missile (MdCN) against a land target, located on the Landes (Biscarosse) site of DGA’s Missile Test division. This firing marks the culmination of intensive training for the crew.

Lt. (Na…

PARIS — Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, announces the launch of a new missile, the Missile Haut de Trame (High Frame Missile, MHT)

Traveling to the Bourges site of the company MBDA, Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, announced the production launch of a new air-to-groun…

ROME —Leonardo welcomes the announcement made by the U.S. Department of Defense to award AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp. a 171 million USD modification to the previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract for the US Navy’s Advanced Helicopter Training System.

This modification exercises optio…