Category: Features & Analysis

USAF F-15EX Eagle II takes flight 0

F-15EX Eagle II takes flight

US Air Force asks for 72 fighters in 2024, and it might happen again An F-15EX Eagle II takes flight for the first time out of Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., on April 26,...

US Army 50 kW-class laser architecture designed 0

Lockheed Martin Achieves First Light in Latest Laser Lab Demonstration

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) achieved first light from the Directed Energy Interceptor for Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense System (DEIMOS) system, which verifies that the laser’s optical performance parameters align with the system design parameters....

Mighty Merlin on the frontline with the Royal Navy’s Commando Helicopter Force (CHF) 0

Mighty Merlin on the frontline with the Royal Navy’s Commando Helicopter Force (CHF)

The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), on behalf of the Royal Navy, has received its final AW101 Mk4/4a Merlin helicopter. The Royal Navy AW101 Mk4/4a Merlin helicopter. (Photo by Leonard) The UK Ministry of...

Georgian Air Force Su-25UB 0

Wings Over Georgia: Retired Warplanes Can Find New Life in the Georgian Air Force

The recent Independence Day celebrations on May 26 were a beautiful moment of national pride. It was also a showcase of some of the nation’s defense and security forces, complete with a flyover of...

Nigerian Air Force L-39ZA (NAF-354), 27 November 2020 0

CAS Inspects ongoing in-Country Reactivation of L-39ZA, Reiterates Commitment to Ensuring Protection of Nigeria’s Airspace

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has expressed satisfaction with the progress of work on the ongoing in-country Life Extension Programme (LEP) on 3 L-39ZA aircraft at the 403...

Switzerland Eurofighter 0

Airbus and Germany submit Eurofighter offer to Switzerland

Airbus and the Federal Republic of Germany today submitted their official offer to the Swiss Federal Office of Armaments armasuisse for the sale of Eurofighter aircraft to Switzerland. Switzerland Eurofighter (Photo by Airbus) The...

China’s Next Jet Fighter May Be A Super F-35 0

China’s Next Jet Fighter May Be A Super F-35

Global Times cited a technical paper written by Yang Wei, an aircraft designer at Aviation Industry Corporation of China – and the chief designer of the J-20 stealth fighter. With reports that China is...

A J-20 stealth fighter of China 0

China Warns India’s Rafale Fighters ‘Have No Chance’ Against Chinese Stealth Jets

Chinese and Indian fighters are engaging in vicious dogfights. A J-20 stealth fighter of China flies at the 11th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, south China’s Guangdong Province, Nov. 1, 2016....

Hungarian Air Ambulance's Airbus H135 0

Hungarian Air Ambulance becomes first helicopter operator to fully digitalise its support operation with Airbus

Purchases complete end-to-end solution, from digitisation to analytics Hungarian Air Ambulance’s H135 The operator. (Photo by Airbus Helicopters. 29 January, 2020)Hungarian Air Ambulance Nonprofit Ltd, has signed a three-year contract to deploy Airbus Helicopters’...

Airbus Helicopters infographic. 0

Airbus Helicopters adds 250 more helicopters to global support contracts

Airbus Helicopters added 250 helicopters to HCare Smart and Infinite contracts in 2019, increasing to 2,250 the number of aircraft now covered by a global HCare material management contract. This means 19% of Airbus...