Category: Notizie Estero

MANILA –– Newly appointed Philippine Navy (PN) flag officer in command, Rear Adm. Toribio Adaci Jr., vowed to prioritize the service’s ongoing modernization program.

“We will intensify our efforts to achieve the objectives and measures in the remaining Horizons 2 and 3 of our modernization progr…

Most of the newly acquired Chinese and Pakistan-made JF-17 fighter jets that the Myanmar regime has taken delivery of have been grounded due to technical malfunctions, according to analysts and former Myanmar Air Force pilots who monitor the junta’s air capabilities.

The JF-17 fighters—lightweigh…

The Defence Forces will procure 57 mm munitions for use on the Navy’s vessels. The procurement is coordinated with Sweden so that the Finnish Defence Forces Logistics Command and the Swedish FMV (Försvarets Materielverk) purchase the same materiel at the same time, thus obtaining compatible munition…

The armed forces must become bigger, and to cope with that, more trucks are needed. In order to cover the needs of the Armed Forces, the Defense Materiel Works, FMV, is now ordering upwards of 300 trucks of various types.

The new trucks are manufactured by Scania and Volvo and are scheduled to be…

ROME — The U.S. Air National Guard (ANG) has issued a ‘fielding recommendation’ for Leonardo’s BriteCloud 218 expendable active decoy, tested on US F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. This means that the service, which has conducted an extensive testing and live trials campaign with BriteCloud since 20…

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (Kongsberg) and Thales UK signs new Memorandum of Agreement. The new MoA reflects the aspiration by both Kongsberg and Thales UK to work closer together on PROTECTOR Remote Weapon Systems Programmes in a greater number of areas of military capability, in the UK, but als…