Monthly Archive: Novembre 2021

SEOUL —- Korea Aerospace Industries Co. (KAI), South Korea’s sole aircraft manufacturer, said Monday it has received a US$360 million repair and maintenance deal for trainer jets in Iraq.

In the three-year deal signed with the Iraqi defense ministry, KAI will provide repair and maintenance serv…

On Friday, the stand of the Ministry of Defense at the FEINDEF exhibition welcomed the signature of the order for the construction of the Underwater Intervention Maritime Action Vessel (BAM-IS) which will be built by Navantia in the Puerto Real shipyard.

The future BAM-IS will have among its miss…

As discussed in the CRS report Air Force KC-46A Pegasus Tanker, the Air Force is in the process of replacing its fleet of 396 KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft, built in the 1950s and 60s, and 59 KC-10 Extenders, which entered service in 1981.

Recent announcements indicate that the planned …

An unmanned air vehicle demonstrated successful airborne recovery during the DARPA Gremlins program’s latest flight test deployment last month. During the deployment, two X-61 Gremlin Air Vehicles (GAV) successfully validated all autonomous formation flying positions and safety features before one G…

TRIESTE, Italy — The forward section of “Jacques Chevallier”, the first of four logistic support units LSS (Logistic Support Ship) ordered by Chantiers de l’Atlantique from Fincantieri under the FLOTLOG (Flotte logistique) program, was delivered today at the Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) shipya…

BRINDISI, Italy — Italian prosecutors in the south of the country have launched a probe into the supply of parts to the United States aerospace company Boeing by Manufacturing Process Specification (MPS), a company at the center of the latest snags on the 787 Dreamliner, three people familiar with…