Category: Notizie Estero

PACIFIC OCEAN –– The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) class successfully launched sea-based missiles at a land-based target for the first time during a proof-of-concept exercise, May 12.

Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Montgomery (LCS 8) fired three AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire …

When they were built, the first two amphibious helicopter carriers (Mistral and Tonnerre) were equipped with just a single bow thruster, which limited the maneuvering capacities of these vessels and therefore their area of amphibious operations. This limitation led to the decision to equip all three…

The Leopard 2 Finnish tanks had been poised in position for a few minutes, surveying what was in front of them and ready to manoeuvre.

Then all of a sudden the ground roared, the noise of gun fire erupted and everything was in play – including the British Army’s Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank.

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Babcock, the international defence, aerospace and security company has been awarded a 10-year contract to provide dry-dock maintenance for the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth class (QEC) aircraft carriers.

The new £30m contract follows a previous maintenance period where Babcock completed the first …

Management PCLS (10%) signed a preliminary agreement on the establishment of a joint defence industrial company.

The company aims to participate in the digitalisation of the armed forces in Hungary and selected NATO member states in Central and Eastern Europe by developing digital combat system s…

Thirty NATO member states are armed with many different types of military aircraft. In order for these aircraft to be used effectively within the Alliance, it was necessary to establish a common concept of air service. This is Aircraft Cross Servicing (ACS), thanks to which alliance partners are abl…