Category: Notizie Estero

French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation has offered to equip India’s homemade aircraft carrier with Rafale jets, but the French firm faces stiff competition from America’s Boeing, which is pitching F-18 fighter planes for the new vessel.

India this week commissioned the 43,000-ton INS Vikr…

TEHRAN — Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said that a domestically-developed patrol combat vessel, named after the country’s top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, boosts the IRGC navy operational capability.

“The…

It will take a while before the Air Force will make use of it, but the intended successor of the C-130H Hercules will be in the Netherlands from today. The C-390M of the Brazilian manufacturer Embraer will be at Eindhoven Air Base until Wednesday.

Earlier this year, the Ministry of Defense opted …

WASHINGTON — A U.S.-led meeting of armaments directors from around the world will take place in Brussels on Sept. 28, the Pentagon’s acquisitions chief said Friday.

The meeting, coordinated with NATO, will be under the auspices of the 50-nation Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which is dedicated …

The second AG600M firefighting aircraft prototype completed its first flight test mission on Saturday in Zhuhai City, south China’s Guangdong Province, according to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the country’s leading plane-maker.

Codenamed Kunlong, the AG600 large amphibious …

MADRID — Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles, accompanied by the Secretary of State, María Amparo Valcarce, and the Army Chief of Staff, Amador Enseñat, today visited the Trubia Arms Factory (Asturias) to examine the progress of the production program of the VCR 8×8 ‘Dragón’ wheeled combat v…