As announced on June 9 by Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery, during his presentation of the aerospace plan, an investment fund to support French SMEs and mid-caps has been established. It will be called Ace Aéro Partenaires and will be managed by Ace Management, a subsidi…

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of the Netherlands of sixteen (16) AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) and related equipment for an estimated cost of $39 million. The Defense Security …

JSC Rosoboronexport and JSC Omsktransmash (part of JSC Concern Uralvagonzavod), which are subsidiaries of the Rostec State Corporation, have demonstrated the TOS-1A heavy flamethrower system to a number of foreign customers at the Nizhny Tagil Institute of Metal Testing’s (NTIIM’s) Staratel Proving …

Vectrus Systems Corp., Colorado Springs, Colorado, was awarded a $529,058,476 modification (P00202) to contract W52P1J-10-C-0062 for Kuwait base operations and security support services.

Work will be performed in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 28, 2021.

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MEDITERRANEAN SEA — Naval aircraft from Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) conducted day and night precision-guided munition and live ordnance strikes on the Greek Karavia Range in the Mediterranean Sea, July 25-26, 2020.

In addition to the expenditure of unguided and guided rockets, laser training…

MARIGNANE, France — The prototype of Airbus Helicopters’ VSR700 unmanned aerial system (UAS) has performed its first free flight. The VSR700 performed a ten minute flight at a drone test centre near Aix-en-Provence in the south of France.

This is a significant step in the programme following th…