Monthly Archive: Maggio 2022

Italian MoD Firms Up Order for Six Piaggio Avanti Evos Aircraft

Italian MoD Firms Up Order for Six Piaggio Avanti Evos Aircraft

Lorenzo Guerini, the Italian Minister of Defence, had announced it last October, just after having signed the relevant Decree. Today, the much-awaited order has been eventually formalized: Piaggio Aerospace, the Italian aircraft manufacturer currently attending EBACE in Geneva (Switzerland), will pr…
US Navy Hands Over RQ-21 Drones to Royal Thai Navy

US Navy Hands Over RQ-21 Drones to Royal Thai Navy

GULF OF THAILAND — Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, Vice Admiral Karl Thomas presided over a ceremony to officially hand over the RQ-21A Unmanned Aircraft System to the Royal Thai Navy on May 24.

The RQ-21A Blackjack is an unmanned and unarmed aircraft system designed for maritime intelligence, surv…

Croatia to Receive Four Donated UH-60M Black Hawks

Croatia to Receive Four Donated UH-60M Black Hawks

UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters are part of a project to procure a total of four helicopters from the United States

Envoy of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia and Minister of Defense Mario Banožić will attend the UH-60M Black Hawk donation ceremony on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at the Col…

Kongsberg Wins Contract Extension to Upgrade F-16 Aircraft

Kongsberg Wins Contract Extension to Upgrade F-16 Aircraft

Kongsberg Aviation Maintenance Services (KAMS) has extended its existing contract with the Norwegian Defence Material Agency (NDMA) to overhaul and make ready for sale an additional batch of F-16 aircraft. The contract also includes overhaul of engines and has a value of 200 MNOK.

The work on the…

Wreckage of Drone Found in Romanian Territorial Waters

Wreckage of Drone Found in Romanian Territorial Waters

On Wednesday, May 11, the Romanian Naval Forces were informed on the wreckage of a drone floating adrift in the Romanian territorial waters, somewhere between Sulina and Sfântu Gheorghe localities, at approximately two miles far from the shore.

The drone wreckage was recovered by one of the Naval…

New Torpedo Tubes for Swedish Surface Combatants

New Torpedo Tubes for Swedish Surface Combatants

FMV, on behalf of the Swedish Armed Forces, has ordered the acquisition of a new torpedo tube for Torpedoes 45 and 47. The new torpedo tube will be named Tub m / 20 and will eventually replace today’s torpedo tubes when firing light torpedoes from surface combat vessels in the Swedish Navy.

“Th…

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