Yearly Archive: 2022

BERLIN — Germany’s aerospace industry risks coming out almost empty-handed from Berlin’s planned purchase of F-35 fighter jets and CH-47F Chinook heavy helicopters worth over 16 billion euros, the industry’s lobby group has warned.

Executives of the Association of the German Aerospace Industry …

WASHINGTON — North Korea’s recent tests of its Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) appear to be aimed at developing a missile with multiple nuclear warheads that can target the United States, experts said.

North Korea conducted several ICBM-related tests this year, the majority…

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced that the UK will shortly complete the delivery of approximately 1,000 additional surface-to-air missiles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

This comes in response to Ukrainian requests for more air defence capabilities, and the missiles will play a …

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Lithuania of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) Launchers and related equipment for an estimated cost of $495 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency…

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Oman of Joint Stand Off Weapons (JSOW) and related equipment for an estimated cost of $385 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certificatio…

JAKARTA — The Indonesian Air Force (TNI AU) has dispatched six pilots to France to attend training sessions to man the 4.5-generation Dassault Rafale fighter jets purchased by Indonesia.

“We have dispatched six pilots and eight engineers to France to attend the training sessions,” TNI AU Chief …