Yearly Archive: 2022

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Ramstein Air Base will host its second Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting next week, Air Force officials said Monday.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has invited defense leaders and senior military officials from around the world to discuss the crisis in Ukraine…

On location in Finnish Lapland, Finnish and Swedish army units will practice together during the coming week. A total of approximately 800 Swedish soldiers are placed under Finnish command together with roughly 1,300 Finnish soldiers.

When the preparedness check that was carried out in northern S…

MALACKY, Slovakia — Czech company Aero Vodochody Aerospace (Aero) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement to produce the L-39NG trainer aircraft with the Slovak company Letecké opravovne Trenčín (LOTN).

The strategic cooperation agreement was signed by Viktor Sotona, CEO and President of …

The Minister of Defense, Jorge Taiana, has ordered the implementation of a ten-year Ammunition Acquisition Plan for the Military, which will allow the recovery of the operational reserves of the weapons systems of each of the Armed Forces, necessary for the development of military actions.

This …

Rockwell Collins, Inc., Collins Aerospace-Mission Aerospace, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been awarded a $176,979,374 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for High Frequency Global Communications System (HFGCS) – Scope Command Next Generation.

This contract supports a gr…

RAMSTEIN, Germany — U.S. B-52s came under NATO command and control for the first time ever during a Bomber Task Force training mission over Romania working out offensive and defensive manoeuvres with Allied fighters.

The Allied aircraft from Canada, Romania and France practiced fighter-bomber e…