Yearly Archive: 2020

Babcock, the aerospace and defence company, has been awarded a multimillion pound contract extension to manufacture a further 18 tactical Missile Tube Assemblies (MTAs) for General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB).

It is part of the Common Missile Compartment (CMC) project for the UK Dreadnought cla…

PHILIPPINE SEA — The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11 completed carrier qualifications June 2.

Theodore Roosevelt qualified pilots from the “Tomcatters” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 31, “Golden Warriors” of VFA-87, “Blue Diamonds” of VFA-146, “B…

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Tibet Military Command recently sent troops to a high-altitude region at an elevation of 4,700 meters at night for infiltration exercises behind enemy lines and tested their combat capability under a harsh environment.

At 1:00 am at an undisclosed date, …

The Technical Agreement between the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Croatia and the Multinational Special Aviation Programme Training Centre (MSAP TC) concerning the host nation support was signed in the Ministry of Defence in Zagreb on 1 June 2020.

The Agreement, outlining the material, l…

The No. 82 Wing Training Flight (82TF), based at RAAF Base Amberley, is a trial to deliver aircrew operational conversion training in the Super Hornet aircraft in Australia.

Commanding Officer of 82TF, 82 Wing Executive Officer Wing Commander Trevor Andrews, said the launch of the trial was an im…

Independent monitors have reported to the UN that the Taliban have not severed ties with al-Qaeda. Yet, Washington is determined to pull out its troops from Afghanistan, ignoring its own pre-condition for the withdrawal.

The Taliban in Afghanistan have maintained close ties with the al-Qaeda terr…