Dubai Airshow 2021, the world’s biggest aviation event since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, closed on Thursday with more than Dh286.5 billion ($78 billion) worth of commercial and defence contracts signed during the show, surpassing the previous edition’s total by over Dh100 billion.

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Mercedes-Benz Netherlands will not supply 12kN Air Assault vehicles to Defense. Both parties had agreed in October 2018 that the carmaker would supply 515 vehicles, mainly for the 11 Airmobile Brigade. However, Mercedes-Benz cannot fulfill the contract. Defense has therefore canceled the agreement, …

On 17 November 2021, the Ministry of Defense concluded an implementation agreement with the Ministry of Defense of the Italian Republic for the purchase of the C-27J Spartan tactical transport aircraft.

The signing of the implementation agreement will enable the Ministry of Defense of the Republi…

On Thursday 18 November, Norway received its first of five new maritime patrol aircraft, the Boeing P-8A Poseidon. The aircraft’s most important task will be to monitor Norway’s vast sea areas.

The delivery took place at Boeing’s factory in Seattle in the USA on the evening of Thursday 18 Novembe…

The first of four fire units in Sweden’s new air defense, Luftvärnssystem 103 Patriot, has been handed over to the Swedish Armed Forces. Minister of Defense Peter Hultqvist attended the ceremony at Lv 6 in Halmstad.

When the Swedish Armed Forces Materiel Administration hands over the first of fou…

LUXEMBOURG — The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has recently signed a five years follow-on contract with the German-based company Antonov Logistic SALIS GmbH to continue providing strategic airlift in support of NATO and EU operations, and urgent national missions to the nine participa…