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Spain Plans to Increase Number of A400M Tankers

Spain Plans to Increase Number of A400M Tankers

This is the first year that Spain participates to the EART exercise. For two weeks, a Spanish A400M and its crew is training AAR scenarios with multinational counterparts and under the direction of EATC.

EART 2021 will offer them opportunities to test the integration of the A400M in a flow of ta…

Saab-Damen Lobbies Delegation for Dutch Submarine Contract

Saab-Damen Lobbies Delegation for Dutch Submarine Contract

Last week was marked by visits to suppliers in the Dutch naval shipbuilding sector by the managing directors of Swedish Saab Kockums and Dutch Damen Naval. During these visits to the Dutch supplying companies, the main subject was the Walrus-class replacement project, for which the Swedish-Dutch com…
Crashed MQ-9A Reaper Drone Cost $42M, USAF Says

Crashed MQ-9A Reaper Drone Cost $42M, USAF Says

LANGLEY, Va. — An Air Combat Command accident investigation board completed its investigation of an MQ-9A that departed the runway surface at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, September 24, 2020, suffering catastrophic damage.

At approximately 7:33 a.m. local during the landing rollout, the aircra…

First US Navy CG-47 Cruiser Completes Six-Year Overhaul

First US Navy CG-47 Cruiser Completes Six-Year Overhaul

After six years, the cruiser USS Gettysburg is out of the BAE shipyard after an overhaul that should keep the 30-year-old ship in action into the late 2030s.

The Navy has been trying for years to figure out how it wants to carry out its aging cruisers’ key missions: defending carrier strike group…

Leonardo Helicopter UAV Wins Italian Military Certification

Leonardo Helicopter UAV Wins Italian Military Certification

ROME — Leonardo’s leading-edge AWHero RUAS (Rotary Uncrewed Aerial System) has received basic military certification from Italy’s DAAA (Direzione degli Armamenti Aeronautici e per l’Aeronavigabilità), the Directorate for Air Armaments and Airworthiness. This achievement marks the world’s first mil…
Rheinmetall Australia to Build Lynx IFV for US Army Tests

Rheinmetall Australia to Build Lynx IFV for US Army Tests

Rheinmetall, the largest supplier of military vehicles to the Australian Defence Force, has today announced the build and export contract of a Lynx Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) Test Chassis to the United States of America from its factory in Redbank Queensland.

Rheinmetall Defence Australia Ma…

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