Yearly Archive: 2020

Army’s Hawkei vehicle was put on show at Russell Offices, Canberra, on September 2, for the announcement that it was ready to commence full-rate production at the Thales facility in Bendigo.

Chief of Army Lieutenant General Rick Burr said the event recognised completion of the rigorous acceptance…

During the night of Wednesday 2 to Thursday 3 September, Vega accomplished a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), orbiting 53 satellites for 21 customers on the proof-of-concept flight of the new Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS).

The launch was the fou…

Royal Navy minehunters HMSs Chiddingfold and Penzance have arrived in the Gulf after a 6,000-mile odyssey from their home ports in the UK.

The duo, who are replacing HMS Blyth and Ledbury, were at sea for two-and-a-half months as they sailed through the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Bab El M…

BARKSDALE AFB, La. — A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test reentry vehicle at 12:03 a.m. Pacific Time Sept. 2 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

The test demonstrates that the United St…

FERROL, Spain — Navantia celebrated today the farewell to AAOR “Supply”, which left this morning from Pier 9 of the Ferrol shipyard, on her way to Australia, where she is expected to arrive in about 35 days of navigation.

Under constrained circumstances due to Covid 19, Navantia dispatched “Sup…

There is broad, bipartisan support for the modernization of the nuclear triad, which includes bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarines and the systems that control them, a Defense Department expert said.

Robert Soofer, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and miss…