“Today is an important day for the Navy. With this project, we took the second step towards the modernization of the Bulgarian Army, after signing the contract for new fighter aircraft. I hope it is not the last one.”

This was what the Minister of Defense Krassimir Karakachanov said at the ceremo…

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and U.S. Navy sailors aboard an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System-equipped destroyer intercepted and destroyed a threat-representative Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile during a flight…

“Case 3000” – the submarines and war ships affair – is not just another “ordinary” corruption scandal, which relates primarily to unethical practices. Rather, it is Grand Corruption combined with Defense Corruption, both having severe legal implications.

Grand Corruption is defined as a scheme p…

Eight minutes after liftoff of Vega mission VV17, following the first ignition of the engine of the Avum upper stage, a deviation of trajectory was identified, entailing the loss of the mission.

Telemetry data analyses are in progress to determine the cause of this failure.

There will be a pre…

On November 13 Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis and acting U.S. Secretary of Defence Christopher C. Miller signed a contract on acquisition of a new UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter platform from the Government of the United States. The Lithuanian Armed Forces is buying four UH-60M Black H…

The development of the aerial tanker variant of China’s domestically developed Y-20 large cargo plane is apparently entering the final stages, as a recent photo captured what seems to be a Y-20 tanker variant conducting aerial refueling for a J-20 stealth fighter jet, media reports said.

Combinat…