PARIS — Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, on June 10 convened a meeting of the Ministerial Investment Committee to launch the future ocean-going patrol vessel program.

Ten ocean patrol boats will replace the high-sea patrol boats (Patrouilleurs de Haute Mer, PHM) based in Brest and …

Today our organization is undergoing a profound transformation and we are facing an extraordinary challenge in the field of human resources. In this context, it was decided to reduce the operations of the Troop Transport Helicopter (TTH) variant of the NH90, and to take the B-Hunter UAV capability o…

LONDON — The UK government has said it has not yet decided how many of the 48 F-35Bs it will have received by 2026 will be upgraded to the latest Block 4 standard, noting any decision on numbers will be based on “military capability requirements.”.

Answering a question in the House of Commons …

Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) on behalf of the Swedish Armed Forces to provide support and maintenance services for Gripen from 1 July 2020 to 31 March 2021. The total order value amounts to MSEK 687.

The order is a nine-month extension of a con…

Two F-35s destined for the Netherlands are currently carrying out test flights at the Italian Final Assembly and check-Out facility in Cameri, Italy, where the Leonardo company built these aircraft on behalf of the American company Lockheed Martin.

The two aircraft are expected to arrive at Leeu…

SIGONELLA, Italy. –– The NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Force (NAGSF), with support from Northrop Grumman Corporation, marked a significant milestone recently in the System Level Performance Verification with the completion of a nine-hour training and test flight conducted for the first time und…