Category: Notizie Estero

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has warned the US Air Force’s GBU-53 StormBreaker, better known as the Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB), has suffered almost a year’s delay thanks to a problem discovered with the gliding bomb’s folding wings.

The slim SDB is a 204-pound munition fitted…

The Council of States has adopted five federal decrees relating to the 2020 Message on the Military, including one relating to an expenditure ceiling of 21.1 billion Swiss francs for the period 2021 to 2024.

As several major army systems will reach the end of their service life over the coming ye…

Drone assaults, torpedo attacks, plucking casualties from the water, and taking on supplies from unusual ships – on the go, in narrow waters – have marked the opening stage of the biggest war game in the Baltic this year.

NATO’s Baltops enters its second week today after a demanding opening stage…

PARIS — Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, welcomed the delivery of the first three Systèmes de mini-drones de reconnaissance (mini-drone reconnaissance systems, SMDR) by the Directorate General of Armament (DGA):

“Our strategy provides for the strengthening of key functions such as…

TUCSON, Ariz. — Raytheon Missiles & Defense completed the first guided release of a StormBreaker smart weapon from an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, which will become the second fighter jet to add the weapon when the program reaches initial operational capability later this year.

The US Air Force’s n…

DULLES, Va.— Northrop Grumman Corp. has been selected by Intelsat to build two C-band satellites that will operate in the upper portion of the C-band spectrum, a range of wireless radio frequencies that is used for critical telecommunications and data connectivity around the world.

This award…