Category: Notizie Estero

ROME — Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), announced today that it has signed a 482 Meuro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build the Copernicus Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band (ROSE-L) environmental monitoring satellite, as …

NEWTOWN, Conn. — The United States Navy’s Surface Ship Torpedo Defense (SSTD) program provides a detect-to-engage layered torpedo defense capability. The four major systems that comprise SSTD are the SLQ-25 NIXIE system, the Torpedo Warning System (TWS), the Countermeasure Anti-Torpedo (CAT), and …

Russia is continuing to consolidate its defense industry, and now its aviation industry, around its largest state-owned defense industry holding, Rostec.

According to Rostec, the inclusion of United Aircraft Corporation will enable Rostec’s aviation cluster to increase its revenue to RUB1 trillio…

FARNBOROUGH, UK — Airbus Defence and Space has successfully completed a new test flight campaign for its Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) in Arizona, U.S.A.

The 2020 flight campaign succeeded despite global slowdowns due to the Covid19 pandemic. It focused on aircraft agility, contr…

SEATTLE/DUBLIN — Budget airline Ryanair on Thursday ordered 75 Boeing 737 MAX jets with a list price of $9 billion, throwing a commercial lifeline to the embattled U.S. planemaker after regulators lifted a 20-month safety ban.

The order from the Irish airline, Europe’s biggest low-cost carrier …

STUTTGART, Germany — A new special operations site that will allow elite U.S. troops to expand operations in the Baltic region is up and running in the Latvian capital of Riga, military officials said Thursday.

The U.S. contributed $3.7 million to the project through the European Deterrence Ini…