Yearly Archive: 2022

China’s latest, domestically developed multipurpose large helicopter, the AC313A, made its maiden flight on Tuesday, taking a tremendous step toward the expansion of China’s arsenal of aviation equipment for emergency rescue.

Taking off at 8:55 am and landing at 9:17 am at the Lümeng Airport in J…

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s defense and aerospace industry sector turnover exceeded the $10 billion threshold in 2021 and returned to pre-pandemic figures, Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB) head Ismail Demir said Tuesday.

Demir was speaking at the 4th Defense Industry Meetings organized by the Ist…

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Navy successfully conducted maiden flight-test of indigenously-developed Naval Anti-Ship Missile launched from a naval helicopter from Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on May 18, 2022. The mission met all i…

BRUSSELS — The EU Commission wants to create additional incentives for joint armaments investments and is proposing a “solidarity mechanism” for this purpose. States that help Ukraine “most in containing Russian aggression” should be able to “replenish their own supplies.” “This could take the for…

LUXEMBOURG — On 16 May 2022, the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) awarded an Outline Agreement to COMLOG for the provision of depot level maintenance support for PATRIOT surface-to-air guided missile systems deployed in Europe.

The contract will be running for the next five years and …

TEHRAN — Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri and Tajik Defense Minister General Sherali Mirzo inaugurated a plant in Tajikistan to manufacture Iran-made Ababil 2 drones in the Central Asian country.

The Ababil 2 UAV production plant was inaugurated i…