Monthly Archive: Dicembre 2021

The Netherlands has officially declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) with its first F-35 squadron. This means that Defense is able to deploy a unit of four F-35s with personnel and equipment anywhere in the world for a short period of time.

Defense thus joins a select group of eight cou…

Today, December 25, at Sevmash (part of the USC) a solemn ceremony of withdrawal from the slipway of the second serial missile carrier of the Borei-A project, Generalissimus Suvorov, took place.

The event was attended by the command of the Navy, representatives of government and industry. The Com…

France takes the lead of NATO’s highest-readiness military force on Saturday (1 January 2022), for a period of one year. The formation, formally known as NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), was created in 2014 in response to crises in the Middle East and Russia’s aggression against U…

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted second flight-test of indigenously developed conventional Surface-to-Surface missile ‘Pralay’ from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on December 23, 2021.

For the first time, two consecutive flight tests …

— It will receive over 80 million euros for equipping 20 new Eurofighters with new avionics and sensor systems, and another 100 million for fleet maintenance over the next five years
— Indra is the second-largest supplier of avionics systems for the Eurofighter, and the only European company to …

Today, December 28, the Antonov State Enterprise, part of Ukroboronprom, unveiled the first An-178-100R (№001) military transport aircraft designed for certification testing. Specialists and senior military officials took part in the completion of the construction and testing of the aircraft.

An-…