Monthly Archive: Dicembre 2021

HELSINKI — The Defense Forces have proposed to the Ministry of Defense that the F-35 fighter manufactured by US manufacturer Lockheed Martin be acquired as the new fighter of the Finnish Air Force.

The Defense Forces base their choice on, among other things, performance and the F-35’s planned l…

The Air Force is pleased with the F-35’s performance in combat, and plans on it being the “cornerstone” of the fighter fleet over the next 30 years. The jet’s high operating costs —$36,000 per hour—threaten the program, though, and the Air Force only plans to buy minimal numbers of the fighter until…

The Aerospace Science and Technology Department (DCTA), located in São José dos Campos (Sao Paolo State), began preparations for Operation Cruzeiro by sending equipment for the first flight test of the 14-X hypersonic aeronautical engine, developed by the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEAv), at th…

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The Helicopter Company (THC), established by the Public Investment Fund (PIF) as the first and only helicopter services provider licensed to operate commercial flights in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, today announced that it has signed a second purchase agreement with Airbus …

Turkey has sold Ukraine significantly more of the armed drones that drew a rebuke from Russia than previously disclosed, with further deals in the pipeline.

The Bayraktar TB2 drones, fired for the first time in October to destroy mobile artillery in Ukraine’s breakaway Donbas region, are prized i…

The H-6J, the latest type of bomber to enter service with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, recently participated in a live-fire exercise in the South China Sea, practicing bomb dropping on islands and sea mine-laying, which analysts said on Sunday displayed the aircraft’s traditional…