NEWPORT NEWS, VA — HII, America’s only builder of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and leading provider of mission-driven defense technologies, celebrated the ceremonial keel-laying of aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80) at its Newport News Shipbuilding division today.

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RAMSTEIN, Germany — Four Spanish Eurofighters landed at Ämari, Estonia, and joined the German Eurofighters currently supporting NATO’s enhanced Air Policing mission in the Baltics. The Spanish jets support the close cooperation concept called Plug-and-Fight the German Air Force has initiated with …

MANILA — The Philippine Navy’s (PN) first missile frigate, BRP Jose Rizal (FF-150), is certified ready to perform naval missions after undergoing a three-day operational readiness evaluation (ORE) in Subic Bay, Zambales last week.

The annual ORE, held on Aug. 24-26, determines the state of prep…

LUXEMBOURG — The Ammunition Support Partnership (ASP), Air Munitions Component, delivered Mk-82 training bombs to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) to assure essential air training missions with F-35A.

This support was enabled by ASP for the first time through an Acquisition and Cross-Se…

The Czech-Slovak cooperation between LOM PRAHA sp and Leteckéch opraven Trenčín to ensure the life cycle of Mi-17 multi-purpose transport helicopters and L-39 Albatros training jet aircraft of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic, including engine and aggregate repairs, has not only a concrete fo…

The Bayraktar TB2, Türkiye’s first national and domestically developed unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), set a new record in the history of Turkish aviation by successfully completing 500,000 flight hours.

The drone completed over half a million flight hours, thus becoming the longest-servin…