Category -- Air -- The Defense Post

Dec- 2023 -

5 December

USAF Trying to Make ‘Franken-Bird’ Jet From Two Damaged F-35s

F-35 maintenance experts are undertaking the “seemingly impossible task” of “stitching together” two severely damaged F-35A Lightning II fighters into a single, operational aircraft.

5 December

Joe Saballa

South Korea Selects Embraer C-390 Millennium as New Military Transport Plane

Brazilian aerospace firm Embraer announced that it has been selected to supply South Korea’s new military transport aircraft.

5 December

KF-21 Boramae fighter aircraft. Photo: Korea Aerospace Industries

Inder Singh Bisht

MBDA and KAI to Explore Greater Missile Integration on FA-50, KF-21

MBDA and Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) have signed an agreement to explore the integration of MBDA missiles onto KAI combat aircraft.

5 December

A police officer stops a car at a check point ahead of the February 25 presidential election at Awka in Anambra State, southeast Nigeria

Staff Writer With AFP

Nigeria Army Drone Strike Accident Kills 85 Civilians

A Nigerian army drone strike accidentally killed at least 85 civilians in a village in northwest Kaduna State, emergency officials said, in one of the country's deadliest military bombing accidents.

4 December

Joe Saballa

General Atomics Wins $389M US Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle Drone Contract

General Atomics has received a $389-million contract to supply the US Army with its MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones.

4 December

Joe Saballa

Boeing Bows Out of US Air Force ‘Doomsday’ Plane Competition

Boeing has confirmed that it is no longer part of a US Air Force program to build a successor to its aging E-4B Nightwatch strategic command and control aircraft.

3 December

Staff Writer With AFP

UK to Start Gaza Surveillance Flights to Help Find Hostages

The UK's military will conduct surveillance flights over Gaza to help locate hostages held by Hamas since its October 7 attack on Israel, Britain's defense ministry confirmed.

1 December