Yearly Archive: 2020

Last week, the IAF held a “Wargame” exercise with the participation of the Aerial Defense Division commander, Brig. Gen. Ran Kochav, and the division’s battalions. The exercise that takes place annually focuses on simulating war and emergency scenarios that the battalion commanders are required to m…

SEATTLE — On Friday September 18, The Boeing Company delivered layoff notices to its remaining seven Flight Training Airplane (FTA) pilots and will instead send the critical work of providing on-site training to airline customers to an overseas contract house.

The 60-day notices of layoff elim…

This month, the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant team at the Army’s Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado completed the destruction of nearly 300,000 155mm projectiles, which each contained 12 pounds of mustard agent, said Walton Levi, site project manager.

Chemical agent destruction op…

The NATO chiefs of defense met virtually for the alliance’s Military Committee meeting last week. Under the leadership of Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, the chairman of the committee, the chiefs discussed ongoing operations in a time of COVID-19 as well as future moves growing out of the allian…

President Donald J. Trump today signed an executive order imposing new sanctions on Iran as well as triggering a “snap back,” or resumption, of U.N. sanctions on Tehran.

Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper said that today’s executive order will further disrupt Iranian efforts to import and prolif…

The German armed forces want to keep a closer eye on space in the future. A new system to track space junk orbiting Earth and send out early warnings about potential threats has begun work.

German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer inaugurated Germany’s Air and Space Operations Center (A…