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Philippine Navy commissions two AW159 helicopters, four KAAVs
The four KAAVs recently commissioned by the PN are expected to be deployed from the service’s two strategic sealift vessels. Source: Philippine NavyParis Air Show 2019: Viking Twin Otter Guardian 400 makes show debut
The Viking Twin Otter Guardian 400 is fitted with the Airborne Technologies SCAR pod. Source: IHS Markit/Patrick AllenParis Air Show 2019: Embraer, ELTA announce new business jet AEW aircraft
Artist’s illustration of the new Embraer-IAI P600 AEW aircraft announced at the 2019 Paris Air Show. Source: EmbraerParis Air Show 2019: IAI offering Kfir NG to Colombia, expects to return Sri Lanka and Ecuador jets to service
A Colombian air force technician sits on the canard of a Kfir during a ‘Red Flag’ exercise in 2012. IAI hopes to sell the enhanced Kfir NG to Colombia, and expects to return to service aircraft for Sri Lanka and Ecuador. Source: US Air Force
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Germany plans expanded artillery capabilities
The German Army plans to expand its indirect fire capability and is emphasising its joint fires capability, according to Lieutenant Colonel Uwe Kraft, head of artillery and joint fires branch at the Germany Army’s Concepts and Capabilities Development Centre. The only conventional tube
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TALOS to HEO: US advances a pneumatic solution
Key Points USSOCOM officially wrapped up its TALOS concept at SOFIC 2019 Technology arising out of USSOCOM’s TALOS effort will be transitioned into the HEO concept and other major US Department of Defense programmes After more than five years in development, the US Special Operations
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UAE may have deployed Pantsir-S1 to Libya
Photographs of a Russian-made Pantsir-S1 air defence system that has purportedly arrived in Libya began circulating on social media channels on 18 June. A system mounted on a MAN SX45 8×8 truck – a configuration only previously seen on the Pantsir-S1s acquired by the United Arab Emirates
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Paris Air Show 2019: French SDT Patroller tactical UAV begins qualification flights
The Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, began the final phase of industrial qualification flights of the Safran Electronics & Defense Système de Drones Tactiques (SDT) Patroller tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from the DGA's
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IAF to curtail An-32 operations
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is looking to limit the use of its ageing fleet of Antonov An-32 ‘Cline’ transport aircraft after one of them crashed in India’s mountainous northeastern region on 3 June, killing all 13 service personnel on board. Senior IAF officers said the force
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Progressive HARM: An evolution in capability
The suppression and/or destruction of enemy air-defence systems is essential to sustaining US and allied anti access/area denial mission superiority. Robin Hughes explores the evolution of the AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile in advancing this capability -
Changing the guard: Canada transitions from Sea King to Cyclone
Canada's programme to replace its ageing Sea King maritime helicopters with the Cyclone has been a long and protracted one. Gareth Jennings explores the key issues and milestones to date -
Striking fresh: Finland’s combat aircraft procurement programme
Finland is in the midst of a thorough campaign to overhaul its air combat capability through the HX programme, under which the country will procure aircraft, weapons, and sensors to completely replace its current fleet of Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornets. Charles Forrester reports
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Philippine Navy commissions two AW159 helicopters, four KAAVs
The Philippine Navy (PN) commissioned two Leonardo AW159 Lynx Wildcat helicopters and four Korean Amphibious Assault Vehicles (KAAVs) in a ceremony held on 17 June at the Naval Base Heracleo Alano in Cavite City. The AW159s, which arrived in the Philippines on 7 May 2019 as part of a PHP5.24
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Philippine Navy commissions two AW159 helicopters, four KAAVs
The Philippine Navy (PN) commissioned two Leonardo AW159 Lynx Wildcat helicopters and four Korean Amphibious Assault Vehicles (KAAVs) in a ceremony held on 17 June at the Naval Base Heracleo Alano in Cavite City. The AW159s, which arrived in the Philippines on 7 May 2019 as part of a PHP5.24
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Belarus pursues armed multirotor UAS developments
Belarusian companies have unveiled three new weaponised multicopter unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) being developed under a wider national effort to advance indigenous unmanned technologies. The Vitebsk-based KB Display, which specialises in development and production of displays and
