A new Chinese drone mothership 14/11/2024 | Editorial Team As part of the Zhuhai Air Show (in Guangdong Province), AVIC unveiled a new large drone “mothership”. It is an aircraft in the roughly 10-ton… [read more]

Data link integration for the Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie and USMC F-35 08/11/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli The in-flight demonstration at Eglin involved F-35B from the VMFA-214 USMC Squadron and marked the first-ever joint force data link integration test. The aim of… [read more]

GA-ASI and BAE Systems work together to bring EW and data link 16 to the MQ-20 AVENGER 07/11/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) joined forces with BAE Systems to demonstrate advanced electronic warfare capabilities backed by Data Link 16 waveform for secure… [read more]

The new Directed Infrared Countermeasure (DIRCM) for the RAF achieves 100% success in trials 30/10/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli The new DIRCM solution, which the UK Ministry of Defence began to fund back in 2017, is planned to be fitted to a 'range' of… [read more]

Germany boosts its missile capabilities with the new TAURUS 29/10/2024 | Editorial Team Defence Minister Boris Pistorius announced Germany's intention to purchase up to 600 examples of a new variant of the TAURUS long-range air-to-surface standoff missile. Of… [read more]

Airbus demonstrated mock-up of uncrewed LAKOTA helicopter to the USMC 22/10/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli Airbus carried out cargo handling demonstrators for the USMC at Station New River and Base Camp Lejeune, using a mock-up of its proposed uncrewed LAKOTA… [read more]

Leonardo UK launches BRITE STORM, a stand-in jammer for drones 17/10/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli Leonardo selected AUSA, the annual conference of the U.S. Army Association, to unveil the latest Electronic Warfare solution born in Luton (Leonardo UK headquarters). It… [read more]

Sri Lanka Air Force Inducts Beechcraft King Air 360ER 11/10/2024 | Mike Rajkumar The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) has formally inducted a newly acquired Beechcraft KING AIR 360ER, which will be assigned to No. 03 Maritime Squadron… [read more]

Dassault's UCAV Project Officially Takes Off 08/10/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone The announcement has been made today at a ceremony celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Strategic Air Forces (SAF, Commandement des Forces Aériennes Stratégiques) at… [read more]

US Navy's air defence capability takes a step forward 07/10/2024 | Massimo Annati Over the past few days, a Boeing F/A-18F of Evaluation Squadron VX-9 from the Point Mugu naval range was spotted equipped with a decidedly impressive… [read more]

Preview from FW 1/2024 - Inside Embraer’s Production Sites: KC-390 and More 27/09/2024 | Tommaso Massa FW Mag had the opportunity to visit Embraer's facilities in São José dos Campos (São Paulo State) and the final assembly line for the KC-390… [read more]

Sweden plans to launch a satellite with a JAS-39 GRIPEN 19/08/2024 | Fabio Di Felice Swedish Air Force’s Space Division has announced that it will conduct a study on the feasibility of launching a small satellite into Space from a… [read more]

GCAP: Leonardo's M-346 soon to fly with gregarious drones 22/07/2024 | Pietro Batacchi Leonardo is working hard on GCAP and related concepts and technologies. In this context, by the end of the year, or early in 2025, the… [read more]

GCAP, new fighter design unveiled at Farnborough. Radical change to the wing spotted 22/07/2024 | Tommaso Massa As the Farnborough International Airshow 2024 opens its doors, the three partner nations of the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), Italy, the UK and Japan,… [read more]

AIM-174B: the air-to-air SM-6 is officially operational 11/07/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli After several "clandestine" sightings of modified Raytheon SM-6s carried under the wings of F-18 SUPER HORNETs, it is now official: the air-to-air version exists and… [read more]

The Embraer KC-390’s sales momentum 27/06/2024 | Tommaso Massa Yesterday, June 26th, 2024, Brazilian company Embraer delivered the second tactical transport aircraft to the Portuguese Air Force, with the ceremony taking place at Embraer's… [read more]

Northrop Grumman’s FAAD C2 shows signs of immortality at Eurosatory 2024 21/06/2024 | Editorial Team At Eurosatory, Northrop Grumman showcased its Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2) system for integrated air and missile defence. FAAD C2 is… [read more]

Aeronautics Launches the Hybrid Octoper™ Multi-Rotor UAS 17/06/2024 | Hypertech Marketing Eurosatory, June 17-21, Hall 6, booth E380   May 29, 2024,- Aeronautics Ltd. - a world leader in design and production of Unmanned Aerial Systems… [read more]

Leonardo and the Rise of the Fenice (Phoenix) 07/06/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone Leonardo has been present at ILA 2024 in Berlin with a full array of its spearhead products, including the M-346 advanced jet trainer, Miysis DIRCM… [read more]

The Franco-German C-130J Squadron Completes First Aircrew Training 06/06/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone Aircrew members representing the French (Armée de l’Air) and German (Luftwaffe) air forces made history as the first-ever binational C-130J Super Hercules squadron to complete… [read more]