Category -- Air -- The Defense Post

Aug- 2021 -

26 August

German Military Orders $24.7M Surveillance Balloon to Protect Niger Base

The German military has ordered a $24.7 million Rheinmetall-made tethered balloon-based area reconnaissance system to help protect a forward operating base in Niger.

26 August

Inder Singh Bisht

USAF Tests 2,000-Pound Dialable Effects Munition

The US Air Force Research Laboratory has demonstrated the customized detonation of an aircraft-launched munition.

26 August

A 52nd Special Operations Squadron MC-130J Combat Shadow II aircraft flies over the skies of New Mexico.

Inder Singh Bisht

USAF Remotely Retargets Cargo Aircraft-Launched Missiles

The US Air Force has demonstrated its air-to-surface standoff missile-equipped Palletized Weapon System by remotely retargeting simulated missiles aboard a cargo aircraft.

25 August

Inder Singh Bisht

China to Build Mach 30 Wind Tunnel by 2022

China said it will build the world’s fastest hypervelocity wind tunnel by 2022, which will simulate flying conditions at about 30 Mach.

25 August

Iran's Mohajer 6 tactical and combat unmanned aerial vehicle

Inder Singh Bisht

Images Suggest Ethiopia Using Iranian Drones in Civil War

Citing images shared on the internet, several media outlets have reported that Ethiopia is using Iranian-made Mohajer-6 combat drones as it fights a civil war.

25 August