MILITARY AVIATION NEWS AND REPORTS / THE WORLD AIR FORCES. WHAT'S NEW?

Final Airbus SC-105 (C-295MPA) handed to Brazil 0

Final Airbus SC-105 (C-295MPA) handed to Brazil

Brazil the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) received its third and final Airbus SC-105 Amazonas search and rescue (SAR) aircraft on December 9, during a handover ceremony at Seville, Spain. Brazilian Air Force personnel pose...

Last USMC AH-1W Super Cobra retired 0

USMC AH-1W Super Cobra retired

USA The US Marine Corps held a Whiskey Sundown Ceremony at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 14 to mark the final retirement of the Bell AH-1W Super Cobra....

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...

USAF F-35, 158th Fighter Wing, Vermont ANG, 22 May 2020 0

U.S. arms sales to UAE draw fire from 29 rights groups

Twenty-nine arms control and human rights organizations have signed a letter opposing the sale of $23 billion worth of missiles, fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates and asking the U.S. Congress...

Nigerian Air Force A-29 Super Tucano, 30 November 2020 0

Nigerian Air Force (NAF) A-29 Super Tucano project on course for delivery as scheduled

The attention of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has been drawn to media reports insinuating that the subsisting contractual agreement between the Nigerian Government and the United States of America (USA) for the supply...

European Space Agency (ESA) SEOSAT-Ingenio 0

Science SEOSAT-Ingenio’s lost promise for Earth observation

Spain’s satellite, the SEOSAT-Ingenio, was billed as the latest in high resolution land imaging technology. Originally, we presented what it would have done. But its launch vehicle, a Vega rocket called VV17, failed. The...

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...