Category: Notizie Estero

[Today’s Senate] estimates hearing was told Australia cancelled a planned $1.3 billion purchase of American-made armed drones originally known as Reapers to help fund a new multi-billion-dollar cyber package.

Under the SkyGuardian program, the US had approved the sale of up to 12 of the lethal un…

ISTANBUL — The Turkish defense contractor Roketsan Thursday announced it had developed a new generation cruise missile that can be launched from land, sea and air platforms.

The cruise missile, named Çakır, will be a new force multiplier for the armed forces with its state-of-the-art features a…

Australia’s torpedoed French submarine program could eventually cost taxpayers up to $5.5 billion, despite the contract being torn up well before construction was to begin.

Key points:
— Defence says it does not have a firm final figure on how much cancelling the deal will cost
— Australia ha…

ROME — Leonardo and the Directorate for Air Armaments and Airworthiness of the Italian Secretariat General of Defence/National Armaments Directorate signed yesterday the Acquisition Contract for the supply of one C-27J to the Slovenian Ministry of Defence, additional equipment for aero-medical ope…

YEOVIL, United Kingdom — Leonardo is putting forward its twin-engine multi-role military AW149 for the UK MoD’s New Medium Helicopter (NMH) requirement. If successful, the company has committed to the establishment of an additional final assembly line of the platform at the “Home of British Helico…

SAN FERNANDO, Spain — Navantia delivered today to the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF) the first of five Avante 2200 class corvettes built in its shipyards in the Bay of Cadiz, in a ceremony held at the facilities of the Naval Base of La Carraca, in San Fernando (Cádiz).

The delivery ceremony of…