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Twenty-two percent of US Air Force C-130 fleet remains grounded
Approximately 22% of the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules medium transport/multirole aircraft fleet remains out of service after the air force...Full story -
North Korea releases images of 6 August missile launches
Images released by North Korea’s state-run media on 7 August show that the two missiles the country launched on 6 August were of the same type as the road-mobile...Full story -
USN EASR tests start at Wallops Island
Raytheon and the US Navy (USN) recently completed the first system-level tests of the AN/SPY-6(V)2, the Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) at the Surface Combat...Full story -
Update: RAAF receives first of three leased Falcon 7X aircraft
The first of three Dassault Falcon 7X aircraft leased by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has arrived in Canberra, the Australian Department of Defence (DoD)...Full story -
Indian Air Force receives 11th C-17 transport aircraft
Boeing delivered the 11th C-17 Globemaster III strategic transport aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF) at the Hindon Air Force Station (AFS) on the outskirts of New...Full story -
MAKS 2019: Iran unveils Mobin ‘cruise UAV'
The Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO) unveiled a scale model of a previously unseen unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at the 2019 MAKS air show being held near...Full story -
ADEX 2019: Airbus pursues A400M opportunity in South Korea
Airbus Defence and Space (DS) is positioning its A400M transport aircraft to meet a requirement in the Republic of Korea (RoK) Air Force, the company said in a media...Full story -
US Air Force seeks A-10C central interface control unit redesign
The US Air Force (USAF) is seeking a redesigned central interface control unit (CICU) for the Fairchild-Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II close air support (CAS) aircraft...Full story -
Indian Navy postpones induction of second Kalvari-class submarine
The Indian Navy (IN) has postponed by several months the commissioning of the second of six Kalvari (Scorpène)-class diesel-electric attack submarines (SSKs) following...Full story -
UK begins ‘Westlant 19' carrier deployment
The UK Royal Navy (RN) aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth sailed from Portsmouth on 30 August to undertake operational trials off the east coast of the United States.Full story -
Boeing awarded USD500 million to begin Qatari F-15QA training
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Boeing USD500 million to begin air and ground training of Qatari personnel on the F-15QA combat aircraft.Full story -
Indonesian National Police deploys largest-ever vessel for South China Sea patrols
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MAKS 2019: Russia unveils export variant of Su-57
Rostec’s Rosoboronexport unveiled the Su-57E, an export variant of its only fifth-generation fighter aircraft, at the 2019 MAKS international airshow being held in...Full story -
Serbia developing new 120 mm mortar bombs
Serbia is developing new 120 mm mortar bombs for local use and export sales, all of which are for 120 mm smooth bore mortars that are already manufactured in the...Full story -
USN marks fourth littoral combat ship deployment in Singapore after 19-month hiatus
The US Navy’s (USN’s) Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Montgomery (LCS 8) arrived at Singapore’s Changi Naval Base on 6 July, marking the service’s fourth...Full story -
PT PAL cuts first steel for Indonesian Navy's second hospital ship
Indonesia’s state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL held a first steel-cutting ceremony for the country’s second purpose-built naval hospital ship at its facilities in Surabaya...Full story -
Portugal orders KC-390 airlifters
Embraer has secured its first export customer for the KC-390 airlifter, with the announcement on 11 July that Portugal has placed a firm order for five aircraft.Full story -
UK ramps up LMM firing activities
The UK Royal Navy (RN) in early July conducted pilot surface-to-surface trials of the Thales UK Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM) – designated ‘Martlet’ in RN service...Full story -
KAI reaches early production milestone on KFX
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has started production work on the first Korean Fighter eXperimental (KFX) aircraft prototype, the company said. Manufacturing work of...Full story -
HMS Queen Elizabeth to be committed to NATO
The Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, will be made available to NATO under the alliance’s Readiness Initiative when it becomes operational in 2021,...Full story