Aerospace News
Egypt to protect Airbus 340-200 Head-of-State aircraft with US Infrared Countermeasures LAIRCM System
According to information published by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) on December 29, 2020, the U.S. State Department has made a dete...
US approves the sale of GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb to Saudi Arabia
According to information published by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) on December 29, 2020, the U.S. State Department has made a dete...
Contract is awarded to Northrop Grumman for Japan RQ-4 Global Hawk drone program
According to a contract published by the United States Department of Defense on December 29, 2020, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, San Diego, C...
First serial production of Sukhoi Su-57 fighter aircraft delivered to Russian Air Force test center
According to information published by the Russian press agency Tass on December 28, 2020, the first serial fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet was s...
Egypt to purchase US AN/AAQ-33 Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods
According to information published by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) on December 29, 2020, the U.S. State Department has made a dete...
United States approves the sale of AH-64E attack helicopters to Kuwait
According to information published by the United States Department of Defense on December 29, 2020, the U.S. State Department has made a determinat...
Australia MoD declared Initial Operational Capability for F-35A fighter aircraft
According to a press release published on December 28, 2020, Australian Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon. Linda Reynolds, CSC, and Minister fo...
Russian Aerospace Forces take delivery of first KBLA-IVTs vertical take-off and landing drones
According to information published by the Russian press agency TASS on December 24, 2020, the Tekhodinamika group (under control of state corporati...
Russian Air Force takes delivery of first Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter aircraft
According to information published by the Russian press agency TASS on December 25, 2020, the Russian Air Force has taken delivery of the first bat...
Ilyushin Il-78M-90A refueling aircraft to enter production in 2021
Next year Aviastar-SP UAC will begin the production of ten Ilyushin Il-78M-90A refueling aircraft under the contract with the Ministry of Defence o...
Central Africa calls for help from Russian military
Russia has sent its military to the Central African Republic (CAR) to help the authorities of that country stop the rebel offensive against the cap...
Airbus Helicopters conducts first flight with Qatari NH90 TTH Tactical Troop Transport helicopter
According to a press release published on December 23, 2020, the Qatar Emiri Air Force’s NH90 helicopter program marked a major milestone last week...
Leonardo delivers first two M-345 jet trainer aircraft to the Italian Air Force
Leonardo delivered on December 22 the first two M-345 jet trainer aircraft to the Italian Air Force, which to-date has ordered 18 units from a tota...
Chinese Air Force improved J-11B fighter jet variant enters batch production
An improved variant of China's J-11B aircraft has reportedly entered batch production, and experts said on December 24 that this type of heavy figh...
Kazakhstan to buy 3 King Air B300ER Scorpions with ISR systems
The U.S. Department of Defense on December 23, 2020 announced that the State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Milit...
Belgian conviction for irradiating an F-16 pointed with a laser
The Belgian Air Force published on its Facebook page, on December 23, 2020, that in April 2018, a 69-year-old man from Hechtel (Belgium) was arrest...
INDRA to equip Spanish NH-90 helicopters with advanced electronic defense systems
According to a press release published on December 21, 2020, Spanish company Indra, one of the main global technology and consulting companies, has...
SAAB receives order for future options of Swedish Air Force Gripen C/D fighter aircraft
According to a press release published on December 22, 2020, Swedish company Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Material Administr...
Belgian Air Force takes delivery of its first new A400M MSN106 military transport aircraft
According to information published on December 22, 2020, the Belgian Air Force has taken delivery of its first of seven Airbus A400M military trans...
Singapore Air Force F-15SG fleet to benefit from 10 more years of Boeing services support
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) recently awarded Boeing its fourth Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract to support Singapore’s fle...