The Japanese government has decided that it needs to start looking for an alternative site to bed down the new MV-22 Ospreys that it has bought. The original plan was to deploy the tilt-rotors at Saga City but officials had difficulties acquiring land need for expansion from the local fisheries cooperative. It will now search […]
U.S. European Command has announced that MQ-9s and approximately 90 Airmen have been deployed in Campia Turzii Air Base, Romania. 31st Expeditionary Operations Group, Detachment 1 will take charge until the squadron is fully operational. For more information, hit the Source below Source
BAE Systems has been awarded a $4 million contract to demonstrate a quick-turnaround demonstration of a new radio frequency countermeasure (RFCM) system for the P-8A. Image: BAE Systems The pod has a small form factor jammer, a high-powered amplifier and the AN/ALE-55 Fiber-Optic Towed Decoy (FOTD). It will be installed on a wing station. Testing […]
The British government has declared that its aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has achieved Initial Operating Capability (IOC). U.S. Navy Photograph by Liz Wolter [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Carrier Strike Group (CSG) is expected to attain full operating capability by December 2023. For more information, hit the Source below Source
The Russian Ministry of Defense has published a video showing the loading of a RS-24 nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile into a silo at Kozelsk. Longer version of the video For more information, hit the Source below Source