On Wednesday 16 December, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Wörner signed the contract to renew and upgrade Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana (CSG) for 2020-2024.

This contract is the result of decisions reached at the Space19+ ESA Council at ministerial…

BERN — Serial production within the value maintenance project of Duro transport vehicles has been relaunched. 264 Duros with a new engine meeting the strict ecological requirements of the Euro 6 emission standard will be delivered by the end of 2020.

The 419 vehicles already delivered, fitted …

MADRID — The Danish Ministry of Defense awarded a CHF 46 million contract to General Dynamics European Land Systems-Mowag (GDELS-Mowag) to deliver 56 Patrol vehicles and a first prototype of the Reconnaissance Open variant.

This second order is part of the Armored Patrol Vehicle (APV) framework…

On December 16th, 2020, a new regional passenger turboprop aircraft Il-114-300 made its maiden flight at the Zhukovsky airfield. Aircraft developer is Aviation Complex named after S.V. Ilyushin (the main enterprise of the Transport Aviation Division of UAC (United Aircraft Corporation) within the Ro…

The island of Taiwan launched its first heavily armed Tuo Chiang-class corvette on Tuesday, with Taiwan media calling it an “aircraft carrier killer,” but Chinese mainland military experts said on Wednesday that the corvette’s threat to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is limited and will only bec…

The signing of a basic agreement on production and delivery of 127 mm practice ammunition for the frigates of the type “Baden-Württemberg” (F125) allows Diehl to introduce a new naval ammunition on the market.

In addition, the ammunition family comprises high-explosive (HE) and illuminating (ILL)…