Category: Notizie Estero

PENTAGON — American and Canadian warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, in the first military freedom of navigation operation since U.S. President Joe Biden said the U.S. would defend Taiwan if it were attacked by China.

USS Higgins, a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, and HMCS…

JAKARTA — The Rafale order by Indonesia was officially effective after Indonesia paid an advance to France. Spokesman for Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak, revealed that the contract for the six Rafale jets has been effective since September 9, 2022.

“As of September…

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Air Force confirmed today it plans to reveal the B-21 Raider in the first week of December during an unveiling ceremony hosted and sponsored by the Northrop Grumman Corporation at its production facilities in Palmdale, California.

The B-21 is a long-range, highly survivable…

China’s armed forces are capable of blockading Taiwan, a senior U.S. Navy official said, pointing to the size of the country’s navy, which is the world’s largest and growing at a rapid pace.

“They have a very large navy, and if they want to bully and put ships around Taiwan, they very much can do…

OWEGO, N.Y. — The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a firm-fixed price contract to produce an additional 12 Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk helicopters for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Procured via the U.S. Government’s Foreign Military Sales agreement, the new aircraft will add a third ‘Romeo…

The Air Force’s latest schedule for Boeing Co.’s troubled KC-46 tanker adds as much as 11 months to start installing an improved version of its flawed camera-based refueling system, according to the service.

The added time could push completion of the improvements into fiscal 2026. “The magnitud…