PARIS — In response to our query, the US Air Force’s Air Combat Command has provided a breakdown of how it calculated the cost of the MQ-9A Predator that was written off after if “departed the runway surface at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, September 24, 2020, suffering catastrophic damage.”

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The NRP Bartolomeu Dias returned today, October 25, to the Lisbon Naval Base, after carrying out the Half-Life Modernization Program planned in the Netherlands, to update operational capacities in this class of ships, similarly to updates carried out by ships Dutch and Belgian equals.

The objecti…

The Defence Aviation Safety Authority (DASA) recently audited Army’s unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, and the fleet passed with flying colours.

DASA’s Squadron Leader Malcolm Walker, an experienced pilot and flying instructor, said he was impressed by how Army operated its large and comp…

Finland granted permits totalling 139.3 million euros in March 2020 for the export of military vehicle parts to the United Arab Emirates. The deal accounts for almost all of Finland’s total arms exports last year.

The information was contained in the latest Finnish Arms Control Report produced by…

HOLLOMAN AFB, N.M. — Since July 2021, the 846th Test Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., successfully stopped two sleds traveling over 5,000-feet per second on a monorail as part of the Hypersonic Sled Recovery, or HSR, effort.

According to Daniel Lopez, project manager for the test that…