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F-35 in Polish Air Force markings. (Image credit: Wiki/Mateusz Rynski). In the box, Lask AB (Image credit: Google Earth) Poland designated the airbase that will host its F-35 Lightning II jets. According to an interview that the Polish Press Agency (PAP) conducted with the head of the MoD...

The two former Ejército del Aire (EdA, Spanish Air Force) KC-130Hs bought by Peru are on their way. Still grey and with Spanish roundels, TK.10-11/31-53 and TK.10-12/31-54 landed at Gando, Grand Canaria on 11 February 2021. Both aircraft are expected to arrive in Peru on Sunday 14 February...

The Kenya Air Force appears to have taken delivery of its first C-145 Skytruck twin transport aircraft from the United States. A C-145 was spotted earlier this month over Kenya and comes after C-145A 08-0310 (construction number AJE003-10) was seen at Moncton, New Brunswick (Canada), on 24...

Multi-mission radar will be the “eyes” of the surface fleet’s newest destroyer The future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) photo rendering by Huntington Ingalls TUCSON, Ariz., (Feb. 9, 2021) – Installation of the U.S. Navy’s AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar has begun on the service’s new Aegis Flight III...

Rheinmetall is modernising 27 more BOXER Command Vehicles for the Bundeswehr. This will bring them up to the latest A2 standard, with the contract having been awarded at the end of January 2021. The 27 vehicles are to undergo modernisation at the Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH plant in Kassel...

Airbus Defence and Space mini UAS subsidiary SURVEY Copter has signed a contract with the French DGA to provide the French Navy with 11 systems (22 aircraft) of the electrically powered fixed-wing ALIACA UAS (maritime version). Officially called “Systèmes de Mini Drones aériens embarqués pour la...

In the shallows next to the rocks located in the port of Pythagorion, the rocket SWAN of the Navy has "sat" and the Armed Forces are literally fighting to avoid sinking. The ship is sitting on the rocks and it is extremely difficult to detach without risking sinking. Attempts have already been...

Pakistan on Thursday said it conducted a “successful” training launch of a cruise missile in the Arabian Sea. With a range of 450 km (280 miles), Babur-1A is capable of engaging targets at land and sea with "high precision," according to a statement by Pakistan Army. "The missile was launched...

The F-15EX during landing. From this angle we can get a good look at the engine’s nozzles, the EPAWSS fairings, the new symmetrical fairings on top of the vertical tail fins and the possible telemetry antennas red marked in red. (Photo: Alex Farwell/vikingaeroimages) Some interesting details...

The U.S. Air Force has announced that after about six months of designing and planning, the 104th Fighter Wing’s flagship F-15C Eagle, tail number 125, received new nose art graphics. The roughly six-foot by four-foot nose art graphic, featured on both sides of the F-15, appears to display the...

A Chinese arms firm has recently completed construction of a third-generation medium-thrust aeroengine production line, and analysts said that China can now mass produce warplanes without having to rely on imported engines. The construction project for the third-generation medium-thrust...

On 9 February 2021, around 14:30hrs (LT), a horrible crash occurred when Fuerza Aérea Paraguaya (FAP, Paraguay Air Force) Cessna 402B 0221 (construction number 402B-1360) crashed at Ñu Guazú air base, Luque, Asunción (Paraguay). The aircraft was operated by the Grupo Aéreo de Transporte...

The first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter arrived at BAE Systems Australia’s Williamtown facility recently and was officially welcomed at an event today. The aircraft was welcomed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Minister for Defence Linda Reynolds, Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price, Chief...

IRGC Navy’s combat speedboats (via Iranian media) The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has received 340 stealthy speedboats capable of carrying weapons. The speedboats joined the IRGC Navy’s fleet in Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas Monday on the occasion of the 42nd...

The US Army's 7th rotation in support of Atlantic Resolve has begun. At the end of January 2021, small groups of helicopters from the 1st Infantry Division Combat Aviation Brigade ‘Demon Brigade’ started to arrive from Marshall AAF, Fort Riley (KS) in the Port of Beaumont (TX). There the...

Test flights of the new reconnaissance unmanned aircraft complex "Shakala" took place. The UAV was developed by military scientists of the National Defense University named after the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy (NUO). The practice of using UAVs in modern military...

On 5 February 2021, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of giant Lockheed Martin Co., Stratford (CT) was awarded a USD 478,6 million modification contract that exercises the option for the procurement of five Lot Three Low Rate Initial Production VH-92A. The contract, as part of the in the US...

Hanscom team awards contract for BACN operations, sustainment A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node-equipped E-11A aircraft rolls out on the flightline at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., in July 2018. On Jan. 21, the BACN program office at Hanscom awarded a $3.6 billion contract to...

Squadron 131 (the "Knights of the Yellow Bird") is currently completing the process of aerial improvement of the "Rhino" aircraft (Hercules C-130HI), which began several years ago. With eight aviation "rhino" planes in their possession, they claim - this is not the same plane that was in the...

The Direction Générale de l'Armement (DGA, the French Government Defence procurement and technology agency) has ordered four DAHER Aerospace TBM-940s to renew its test fleet with the Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace (French Air and Space Force) at Base Aérienne 125 (BA125) Istres/Le Tubé in the...