All 19 NH90 maritime combat helicopters will receive a major upgrade. This so-called midlife update is necessary to keep the aircraft operationally relevant, State Secretary Christoph van der Maat reported to the House today.

The NH90 is used for maritime combat tasks on board ships, such as reco…

Defense will renew Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. It’s about the mobile capabilities for Electronic Attack (EA). The current systems are very outdated and have reached the end of their technical and operational life, State Secretary Christophe van der Maat wrote in a letter to the House today.

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On March 30, the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) successfully conducted its first test-firing to verify the performance of a solid-propellant space launch vehicle developed entirely with homegrown technologies at its testing site. The test was attended by the Minister of National Defense and to…

A 47 Squadron C-130J Hercules operating from RAF Akrotiri has been conducting tactical refuelling of British Army Wildcat helicopters, which are deployed on a NATO mission in Estonia called Operation CABRIT.

This activity is known as an air landed aircraft refuelling point and enables aircraft to…

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $22,953,288 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

This contract provides initial product support maintenance of the F-35 Lightning II chase aircraft necessary to support F-35 aircraft acceptance and…

Typhoon Jets from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland have conducted a test of Quick Reaction Alert capabilities. The aircraft scrambled as part of Exercise Seihan River in response to an aircraft simulating loss of communication and deviating from its flight plan.

Exercises of this nature are conducted…