Category: Notizie Estero

In its FY2023 budget request, the Navy eliminated funding for research and development into a new nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N). The Navy indicated that the program was “cost-prohibitive and the acquisition schedule would have delivered capability late to need.”

According to…

TARNOS, France — Safran Helicopter Engines and the French Aerospace Maintenance Agency (DMAé, Direction de la Maintenance Aéronautique) have renewed for 10 years their contract to maintain the French government’s helicopter engines in operational condition.

Designated Saturne (Soutien Avancé d…

RAMSTEIN, Germany — The United States Marine Corps has deployed one of its units along with an AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) to Lithuania for the first time to support NATO’s enduring Air Policing mission.

This unit provides multi-domain command and control, air defence, air…

ATHENS — The Ministry of Defense has apparently decided to spend €500 million to upgrade its four Hydra-Class MEKO frigates. The upgrade will allow the 3,200-ton frigates, commissioned in the 1990s, to remain operational for 15 more years.

If the decision stands, it will be a departure from the…

BERLIN — Germany will buy 60 CH-47F Chinook heavy transport helicopters from Boeing worth around 5 billion euros ($5.40 billion) as it upgrades its military armory, Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday, citing government sources.

The helicopters will be financed from the 100 billion eur…

STOCKHOLM — Total global military expenditure increased by 0.7 per cent in real terms in 2021, to reach $2113 billion. The five largest spenders in 2021 were the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom and Russia, together accounting for 62 per cent of expenditure, according to new data on…