Category: Notizie Estero

BAE Systems successfully tested its APKWS laser-guidance kits with High-Explosive Anti-Tank Anti-Personnel Anti-Materiel (HEAT/APAM) warheads from General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems. Guided by APKWS guidance kits, the rockets went three for three against armored targets, demonstrating th…

VODOCHODY, Czech Republic — Aero provides aircraft overhauls and upgrades for customers on various continents. After two years of overhaul, three L-39ZA Albatros aircraft from Aero went to Nigeria, flying on their axis to their home base in Kano. This method of delivering the aircraft to the custo…

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been “a catastrophic strategic disaster,” Colin H. Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, told the Defense Writers’ Group yesterday.

Kahl briefed the group about the National Defense Strategy and said that the document lists Chin…

BERLIN — Germany’s aerospace industry risks coming out almost empty-handed from Berlin’s planned purchase of F-35 fighter jets and CH-47F Chinook heavy helicopters worth over 16 billion euros, the industry’s lobby group has warned.

Executives of the Association of the German Aerospace Industry …

WASHINGTON — North Korea’s recent tests of its Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) appear to be aimed at developing a missile with multiple nuclear warheads that can target the United States, experts said.

North Korea conducted several ICBM-related tests this year, the majority…

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced that the UK will shortly complete the delivery of approximately 1,000 additional surface-to-air missiles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

This comes in response to Ukrainian requests for more air defence capabilities, and the missiles will play a …