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Making Sense of Turkey’s Request to Buy F-16 Fighters

Making Sense of Turkey’s Request to Buy F-16 Fighters

Unrefuted media reports suggested that Turkey has made a request to the U.S. to purchase 40 Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets and nearly 80 modernization kits for its existing warplanes.

The formal appeal was made on Sept. 30, the same reports informed, showing the move came following Presid…

US Army Unveils New Black Hawk Variant, UH-60V

US Army Unveils New Black Hawk Variant, UH-60V

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. –– The U.S. Army unveiled the newest variant of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, the UH-60V, during a ceremony Wednesday at the Pennsylvania National Guard’s Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site.

EAATS received six UH-60Vs from the Utility Helicopter Progra…

Navantia Launches S-71 Submarine Final Life Extension Phase

Navantia Launches S-71 Submarine Final Life Extension Phase

The Navantia Shipyard in Cartagena launched the S-71 ‘Galerna’ submarine this Friday as part of the work planned to extend its life cycle. From this moment, the ship will remain moored to the dock to undergo the port tests and, later, will carry out the corresponding navigations to the sea tests bef…
Ultra to Upgrade Tunisian Command and Control System

Ultra to Upgrade Tunisian Command and Control System

Ultra is pleased to announce the U.S. Navy International Program Office has placed an initial order for US $11M for a full suite of Command, Control and Intelligence (C2I) systems to integrate sensors and remote sites and provide a state-of-the-art Common Operational Picture for the Tunisian Armed F…
China Prepares to Export Longer-Range Air-to-Air Missile

China Prepares to Export Longer-Range Air-to-Air Missile

China is pushing its most capable in-service medium-to-long range air-to-air-missile (AAMs), the PL-15, for export only some three years after introducing the weapon in domestic service. The move flags China’s continuing progress in developing advanced AAMs and the missile will be one of the most ad…
US Army Unit Fires New M-SHORAD Missile in Europe

US Army Unit Fires New M-SHORAD Missile in Europe

The 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, part of the 10th Army Air & Missile Defense Command, completed the first live-fire of the maneuver short-range air defense weapon system at the tactical unit level and the first-ever live-fire of the system in Europe on Oct. 7, 2021. The week-lo…
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