BUCHAREST — Romania’s defence ministry aims to speed up the acquisition of 32 F-16 fighter aircraft from Norway and has received the necessary approvals to fly its Soviet-era MiG-21 jets for another year, after grounding them for two months following a crash.

“In the last two months, we have ac…

Lorenzo Guerini, the Italian Minister of Defence, had announced it last October, just after having signed the relevant Decree. Today, the much-awaited order has been eventually formalized: Piaggio Aerospace, the Italian aircraft manufacturer currently attending EBACE in Geneva (Switzerland), will pr…

GULF OF THAILAND — Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, Vice Admiral Karl Thomas presided over a ceremony to officially hand over the RQ-21A Unmanned Aircraft System to the Royal Thai Navy on May 24.

The RQ-21A Blackjack is an unmanned and unarmed aircraft system designed for maritime intelligence, surv…

UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters are part of a project to procure a total of four helicopters from the United States

Envoy of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia and Minister of Defense Mario Banožić will attend the UH-60M Black Hawk donation ceremony on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at the Col…

Kongsberg Aviation Maintenance Services (KAMS) has extended its existing contract with the Norwegian Defence Material Agency (NDMA) to overhaul and make ready for sale an additional batch of F-16 aircraft. The contract also includes overhaul of engines and has a value of 200 MNOK.

The work on the…

On Wednesday, May 11, the Romanian Naval Forces were informed on the wreckage of a drone floating adrift in the Romanian territorial waters, somewhere between Sulina and Sfântu Gheorghe localities, at approximately two miles far from the shore.

The drone wreckage was recovered by one of the Naval…