Defense News Aerospace 2024
French Air Force to receive 42 Dassault Rafale F4 jets
On January 12, 2024, the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA - Direction générale de l'Armement) announced the award of a contract to Dassault A...
Belgian Air Force receives final A400M Atlas transport aircraft
Belgium has welcomed its final A400M, bringing the total number of aircraft in the Belgian-Luxembourg unit to eight, with seven for Belgium and one...
Russia loses A-50 AEW&C and Il-22M over Azov Sea from Ukrainian missiles
According to the media and the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, on January 14, a $300 million Russian A-50 ...
The Netherlands receives two additional AH-64E V. 6 Apache Guardian attack helicopters
The US Army has delivered two AH-64E Apache V.6 Guardian attack helicopters to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) as part of a larger order of...
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works rolls out X-59 NASA's newest supersonic X-plane
On January 12, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works rolled out the X-59, a unique experimental aircraft designed to quiet the sonic boom, at a ceremony in...
Rheinmetall awarded €50 million contract to supply Birdie infrared decoys to protect German aircraft
The Bundeswehr has awarded Rheinmetall a substantial order for decoy flares for protecting aircraft. The German military can now procure over 470,0...
Japan launches satellite to monitor North Korean military activities
Japan has successfully launched a government intelligence-gathering satellite to monitor North Korean military sites and enhance its natural disast...
India reveals first indigenous MALE drone named Drishti 10 Starliner
As reported by ANI on January 10, 2024, the Indian Navy has made its first acquisition of domestically produced Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MAL...
US and British coalition forces strike Houthi rebel targets in Yemen
Late on January 11, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III issued a statement on the US-British coalition strikes in Houthi-controlled areas...
South Korean Air Force strengthens air surveillance with L3Harris Bombardier's Global 6500 platform
The South Korean Air Force, in collaboration with the AEW&C team spearheaded by L3Harris, has unveiled a sophisticated Airborne Early Warning a...
RTX Raytheon's GhostEye MR proves operational readiness during US Air Force exercise
Raytheon, an RTX business, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) o...
Slovak Air Force receives first two F-16 Block 70 fighters
Lockheed Martin has delivered the first two F-16 Block 70 aircraft to the Slovak Air Force, marking a significant leap in technology and a strong c...
Falklands war-era Argentinian IA-58 Pucara ground support airplane modernized into ISR platform
The IA-58 Pucará's engine replacement program, now known as the Pucará Fénix, has reached a pivotal milestone with the achievement of its remotoriz...
Northrop Grumman to supply IR countermeasure LAIRCM Generation 3 Pods for USAF KC-35 Stratotankers
The U.S. Department of Defense on January 10 announced that Northrop Grumman Systems was awarded a $16,497,388 firm-fixed-price delivery order for ...
Germany to export 150 Iris-T air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia
As reported by the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) on January 10, 2024, the German government has approved the export of 150 Iris-T air-to-air missil...
KF-21 fighter jet goes into production for South Korean Air Force
South Korea is on the brink of a significant advancement in its defense capabilities with the initiation of production of the KF-21, an indigenous ...
Indonesian Air Force strengthens air capabilities with French Rafale fighter jets
On January 8, 2024, Indonesia finalized a major agreement for the acquisition of 42 Rafale fighter jets from the French manufacturer Dassault Aviat...
French Special Forces to receive 8 additional NH90-FS helicopters
According to a report by Laurent Lagneau in Opex360, the French Ministry of Defense has formally placed an order for eight more NH-90 helicopters d...
GA-ASI demonstrates combat operational readiness for vendor-agnostic autonomy architecture for UCAV platforms
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) demonstrated its rapidly maturing open standards-based autonomy ecosystem for Unmanned Combat A...
Mali receives 5 Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones for counterterrorism
According to Clash Report on January 4, 2024, Mali recently received a shipment of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs). T...