2020
Indonesia offers to buy Austrian Typhoon fighters
After initial clearance from the U.S. State Department to buy Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, news broke that Indonesian Defense Mini...
Future combat air concepts continues to drive economic advance across the UK
Seven companies representing the breadth of innovation across the UK have signed agreements to progress opportunities to work on future combat air ...
Japan confirms that F-35B jets will operate from Izumo-class helicopter destroyer
Japan published its 2020 Defense White Paper today and in the section on the F-35B, the government has confirmed that the stealth fighter will oper...
Royal Australian Navy HMAS Ballarat and S-100 Camcopter UAV conduct flight trials
The Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) Anzac Class frigate, HMAS Ballarat, and an S-100 Camcopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) have conducted flight tr...
U.S. Air Force awards billion USD contracts to Lockheed Martin, Collins Aerospace and Leidos for C-130J, USSOCOM and other development programs.
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $15,000,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for C-130J development, integration, retrofit a...
US Air Force conducts test capabilities of KC-46A Pegasus as aeromedical evacuation aircraft
According to information released by the U.S. Air Force on July 15, 2020, U.S. Air Force has conducted test capabilities of the KC-46A Pegasus aeri...
China test fires helicopter-based air-to-ground missile
China recently test-launched a new type of helicopter-based air-to-ground missile, which is at a world-leading level, according to the weapon's dev...
Maritime version of Chinese CH-5 CUAV drone makes first test flight
China recently conducted the first flight test of a maritime version of the locally developed Combat UAV (CUAV) CH-5, its developers said on Thursd...
India ready to sign contract to acquire 83 local-made Tejas Mk1A LCS Light Combat Aircraft
According to information published by the Livefist Defence website on July 16, 2020, the Indian company Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) could recei...
Russian Navy receives its first Be-200ES amphibious aircraft
According to the AviaPressPhoto website, on July 14, 2020, the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy received its first Be-200ES amphibious aircraft. ...
Saab signs support agreement with United Arab Emirates for GlobalEye Aircraft
Saab has signed a support agreement with the United Arab Emirates regarding the advanced airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) solution Gl...
Two F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters delivered to Royal Netherlands Air Force
On 14 July, the Royal Netherlands Air Force has received two more F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters at Leeuwarden Air Base, with some delay due t...
UK Ministry of Defense signs £65m contract for first three protector aircraft
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has signed a £65 million contract to build the UK’s first three Protector aircraft - the first UK operated system cap...
China launches mass production of new local-made J-20B stealth fighter aircraft
According to information published by the South China Morning Post on July 12, 2020, the Chinese aviation industry has launched the mass production...
Japan Self-Defense Force receives its first V-22 Osprey
Japan accepted delivery of its first Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey on July 10, making it the first nation outside the U.S. to own and operate the tiltrot...
Indian Air Force to get Heron surveillance drones and Spike ATGM from Israel
Amid tensions with China, Indian Air Forces are planning to acquire Heron surveillance drones and Spike anti-tank guided missiles from Israel to en...
Philippine Air Force expects to receive in July two more C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft
According to news published by the Philippine News Agency website, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) will acquire two more American-made Lockheed Mart...
JF-17 Thunder fighter jet production boosted in China
China has ramped up production of JF-17 fighter jet, which was jointly developed with Pakistan. In the first half of 2020, the number of aircraft d...
Russian hi-tech firm develops mobile anti-drone system
Ruselectronics Group (part of the state hi-tech corporation Rostec) has developed an Ataka-Trophy mobile anti-drone system, Rostec said in a statem...
U.S. Air Force awards contract for first lot of Boeing F-15EX fighter aircraft
The Department of the Air Force awarded a nearly $1.2 billion contract for its first lot of eight F-15EX fighter aircraft, July 13, 2020.