Category: Special Reports

A-29B Super Tucanos handed over to the Philippines 0

A-29B Super Tucanos handed over to the Philippines

PhilippineS An official ceremony was held on October 13 to hand over six Embraer A-29B Super Tucano close air support aircraft to the Philippine Air Force (PAF) at Clark Air Base, Pampanga. The six...

Algeria 14 MiG-29M FGA aircraft from Russia 0

Algeria 14 MiG-29M FGA aircraft from Russia

The Algerian Air Force is taking delivery of its first Russian-made MiG-29M/M2 multirole combat aircrafts in a deal which is expected to increase the size of the country’s combat fleet and replace legacy systems...

US Army Medium Tactical Vehicle (FMTV) TLS-Echelons Above Brigade System, 30 September 2020 0

US Army Wants Electronic Jammer Weapon With Missile Defense Capabilities

Tuesday for a vehicle-mounted electronic jamming system that will uniquely have the ability to jam incoming projectiles, fouling their targeting in the moments before impact. At the Army’s CEMAlite conference on Tuesday, three Army...

China Air Force (PLAAF) subsonic H-20 stealth bomber, 20 November 2020 0

China’s new stealth bomber H-20 will allow it to make ‘truly intercontinental’ strikes, report says

China’s subsonic H-20 stealth bomber will give the country a “truly intercontinental” capacity expanding its reach far beyond the country’s seaboard, according to a report by a leading think tank. The bomber is still...

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...

No Air dominance without Space dominance 0

No Air dominance without Space dominance

The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) will create a network of manned and unmanned platforms in the sky from fighter to drones, up to satellites. Connected to ground and maritime forces, these air- and...

Kenyan Air Force Leonardo C-27J Spartan 0

Kenyan C-27J Spartan still in Italy

Kenyan Air Force (KAF) Leonardo C-27J Spartan 222 carrying test serial number CSX62308 takes o for a sortie from Italian aircraft maker Leonardo’s facility at Venegono, on July 27. Kenyan Air Force Leonardo C-27J...

Georgian Air Force Su-25UB ‘20 Blue’ 0

Georgia to return stored Mi-24P/Vs and Su-25K/UBs to service

The Georgian Ministry of Defence announced on July 24 it would refurbish and upgrade stored Mil Mi-24 attack helicopters and Sukhoi Su-25 aircraft in Tbilisi. Georgian Air Force Su-25UB ‘20 Blue’ being dismantled at...

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...