Yearly Archive: 2022

The Make-in-India campaign puts a premium on co-development and co-production of defence equipment in India. In a bid to promote such projects, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) included two specific provisions in the Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020 (DAP 2020) which governs capital acquisitions for t…

On 17 August the 46th Air Brigade Pisa reaches an important milestone, at 12:30 the C-27J “Lupo 88” aircraft, Special Color edition, reached 50,000 flight hours. In the cockpit the Commander of the Brigade, Gen. DA Alessandro De Lorenzo, together with the Commander of the 98th Flight Group, T.Col. D…

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The Navy and its Pacific allies recently demonstrated their ability to use the Aegis Combat System to down ballistic missiles of the type tested by North Korea this year.

The Navy for the first time in the Hawaii-based Pacific Dragon exercise used a Standard Missile 3 Blo…

A hypersonic cruise missile co-developed by Raytheon Technologies has passed its second flight test in a row – an important milestone in the U.S. Department of Defense’s plan to field weapons that travel faster than five times the speed of sound.

The test, conducted in July 2022, featured a Hyper…