BENGALURU, India — Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, Chief of the Air Staff, undertook his maiden flight in HAL-designed and -developed Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) here today. The aircraft took to the skies at 11.45 hours and remained airborne for an hour. The CAS was accompanied by HAL’s Deputy …
The first 3 Apache attack helicopters of the Ministry of Defense left this morning by boat from Antwerp to the United States. The AH-64Ds there undergo a so-called remanufacture, a process that takes about 2 years. All 28 Defense Apaches will undergo a complete rebuild and overhaul in the coming yea…
PARIS — The French Space Command is expanding and diversifying its sources of information concerning the space environment by subscribing to WeTrack, a global network of radio-frequency (RF) sensors designed, owned and operated by Safran Data Systems. The WeTrack service tracks geostationary satel…
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — On November 18th and 19th 2020, at the NEDS 2020 online event, Naval Group reveals the joint participation with Dutch partners to European research and development projects in key naval areas such as underwater noise reduction, propeller performance, increasing predictabil…
The U.S. Strategic Command’s 2019 Omaha Trophy was awarded to a Army unit for the first time. The trophy was created back in 1971 by the U.S. Air Force’s Strategic Air Command as a token of appreciation to the command’s best wing. It has since then evolved into five awards to recognize U.S. Strategic Command’s […]
A 90-day beta test has been running at Laughlin Air Force Base since October to assess the feasibility of using a 3K commercial refueler on the flight line. / The commercial refueler can hold 3,000 gallons of fuel while the military grade R-11 refueler has twice the capacity. However, the R-11 fleet is aging and […]