Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) worked together to manipulate 737 Max recertification tests following two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019, according to a damning new Senate report. Boeing “inappropriately coached” some FAA test pilots to reach a desired outcome during the recerti…

The Dutch and German armed forces are further strengthening the ties. State Secretary Barbara Visser and her German counterpart Benedikt Zimmer signed four agreements yesterday.

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For example, they will join force to replace the Dutch air defense and command and German F124 Sachs…

The government bill contains proposals on an overall objective for total defence, new objectives for military and civil defence, the direction of the force structure of the Swedish Armed Forces, changes to the Swedish Armed Forces peacetime organisation, as well as legislative amendments as a resu…

Carried out on December 15, 2020, Operation Minotaur is a strategic air force (SAF) power projection demonstration. Five Rafales, accompanied by tanker planes and an E-3F, carried out an air raid lasting over 10 hours – and over 8000 km – from Metropolitan France for a simulated attack of Air Base 1…

General Dynamics Land Systems Inc., Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $4,620,000,000 fixed-price-incentive contract to produce Abrams M1A2 SEPv3 tanks.

Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimat…

On December 17, the National Assembly adopted the 2021 budget. The share allocated to the Ministry of the Armed Forces increased by 1.7 billion euros compared to the budget voted last year, an increase of 4.5%, in accordance with the trajectory provided for by the Military Programming Law (LPM) 2019…