Yearly Archive: 2022

After five years of being docked alongside in military ports, £1bn destroyer HMS Dauntless is finally taking her first tentative steps back out to sea following a major multi-million pound overhaul of her dodgy engines.

The hi-tech Portsmouth-based warship set sail from the Cammell Laird shipyard…

MTU engines from Rolls-Royce deliver the power for an innovative modular tracked vehicle concept that Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) is presenting at the Eurosatory defence technology trade fair (13 to 17 June 2022 in Paris).

‘BOXER tracked’ is the basis for a completely new family of tracked vehic…

BERN — This morning, shortly after 7 a.m., the new reconnaissance drone for the Swiss army completed its maiden flight in Emmen. With the successful test flight, the Reconnaissance Drone System 15 (ADS 15) takes another important milestone.

After the successful roll tests in May 2022, the first…

On the 15th of June 2022, Naval Group and the Hellenic company MEVACO signed a Framework Agreement related to mechanical systems for the FDI HN (Hellenic Navy) frigates.

Following the intensive preliminary phase launched a few years ago for the localisation of production activities in Greece, Nav…

On June 15, Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas and Minister of Defence of Finland Annti Kaikkonen met in Brussels to sign a Letter of Intent to continue the negations on acquisition of two Jehu-class patrol boats from Finland for the Lithuanian Navy.

The fast patrol boats are aimed t…

Despite spending billions of dollars annually, the Air Force and Navy have struggled for years to maintain their aircraft due to the age of their fleets, a lack of parts, maintenance delays, and other problems. By the Air Force and Navy’s own measures, aircraft readiness has worsened since fiscal ye…