Category: Notizie Estero

SEOUL — South Korea plans to launch its first homegrown spy satellite in 2023 atop a rocket from U.S. commercial space firm SpaceX under a project to place five such satellites into orbit by 2025, Seoul officials said Sunday.

The state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute and Agency for Defen…

Four F-35s of the Royal Netherlands Air Force have just landed at the Bulgarian military airfield Graf Ignatievo Air Base. It is located about 130 kilometers southeast of the capital Sofia. The Netherlands has offered the fighter aircraft to NATO.

Of the four, two aircraft are used to monitor the…

SEOUL — Hanwha Defense, a South Korean defense firm, broke ground Friday for a new factory in Australia to supply self-propelled howitzers and armored vehicles to the country under last year’s 1-trillion won (US$816 million) procurement deal.

The ground-breaking ceremony for the factory set to b…

Slovakia has reportedly sent its S-300 missile defence system to Ukraine. The secret transfer allegedly took two days, as the private broadcaster TV Markíza, which broke the news, reported on its website.

Even though the Defence Ministry has not confirmed the information yet, Prime Minister Eduar…

Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh released the third positive indigenisation list of 101 items, comprising major equipment/platforms, in New Delhi on April 07, 2022. The list, notified by Department of Military Affairs, Ministry of Defence (MoD), lays special focus on equipment/systems, which are bei…

WASHINGTON — The Department of the Air Force awarded $108 million to Northrop Grumman for advance procurement to support the B-21 Raider program.

Advance procurement funds will directly support the acquisition of long lead items necessary to build the first lot of production B-21 aircraft. The …