Yearly Archive: 2022

The war in Ukraine shows that unmanned aerial vehicles are part of modern warfare. Drones have various tasks from aerial surveillance to missile defense.

Drones meet the requirements of modern warfare — that’s the line from the US Department of Defense. And the Pentagon says it has just the drone…

PARIS — The Ministry of the Armed Forces is ordering 21 multifunction optronic pods manufactured by Thales. They already equip the Rafale FR3-R of the Air and Space Force, as well as the Rafale flotillas of the French Navy.

The Talios pod makes it possible to detect and identify ground targets …

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Aerojet Rocketdyne has been selected by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control to build an advanced solid rocket motor booster for the second stage of a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) hypersonic weapon system, known as Operational Fires, or OpFires.

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The Directorate General of Armaments took delivery of the 7th ATL2 aircraft modernized to Standard 6 and turned it over to the French Navy on April 25, 2022 at the Lann-Bihoué naval air base. This is the second ATL2 modernized by Sabena Technics in Dinard, under a subcontract awarded by Dassault Avi…

undergone a major modernization for a number of years but has now been handed over from the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV) back to the Armed Forces.

HMS Gävle, with pennant number K 22, was launched in 1990 and is of Gothenburg class.

The modernization of HMS Gävle and the sist…

NAPLES, Italy — In a historic moment for the region, a Freedom-Variant Littoral Combat Ship, USS Sioux City (LCS 11), deployed to U.S. Sixth Fleet’s area of operations, supporting U.S. and NATO Ally and Partner interests in Europe and Africa.

The deployment provides an opportunity for Sioux Cit…