Category -- Air -- The Defense Post

Oct- 2020 -

27 October

Photo of a common hypersonic glide body launche from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, during a Defense Department flight experiment, March 19, 2020.

Texas A&M Secures $20M Contract to Establish Applied Hypersonics Consortium

Texas A&M University has been awarded a $20 million contract by the Department of Defense to set up a University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics.

22 October

Photo of a Tactical Unmanned Aerial System maintainer with 3rd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, conducting final preflight checks during operational tests of the new RQ–7B Shadow Block III system at Fort Bliss, Texas

Ronald Watkins

US Army Field Tests Latest RQ–7B Shadow Drone

The US Army has wrapped up its operational testing of the RQ–7B Shadow Block III system, the latest in the Shadow series of the tactical unmanned aerial system.

22 October

A handout picture provided by the Iranian army's website on Sept. 11, 2020, shows an Iranian Ghader missile being fired during the second day of a military exercise in the Gulf, near the strategic strait of Hormuz in southern Iran.

Staff Writer With AFP

Iran Tests Home-Made Air Defense Systems

Iran tested home-made air defense systems during military exercises, state media said, days after the expiry of an international arms embargo against the Islamic republic.

15 October

The Fifth-Generation Aerial Target sits on the flightline at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, September 2020.

Staff Writer

US Fifth Generation Target Drone to Begin Test Flights

The Defense Department announced it will begin test flights of its much-anticipated Fifth Generation Aerial Target drone (5GAT) later this month at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.

13 October

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rests on Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on February 5, 2018, ahead of its demonstration mission

Inder Singh Bisht

US Army Partners With SpaceX to Deliver Military Cargo Anywhere In an Hour

The US military is partnering with SpaceX to explore the possibility of transporting military systems in a rocket anywhere on the globe in merely 60 minutes.

Sep- 2020 -

21 September

Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force H6-K bomber

Staff Writer With AFP

Hollywood Action Clips Spotted in China Airforce Propaganda Video

A high-octane PR video for China's airforce crashlanded on social media after users questioned why the world's second-largest military power spliced clips from Hollywood blockbusters into its own propaganda material.

Aug- 2020 -

26 August

Armoured vehicles and 155 mm self-propelled howitzers deployed in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel on the border with Lebanon on July 27, 2020

Staff Writer With AFP

Israeli Army Claims Air Strikes on Hezbollah Positions in Lebanon

Israel's army said it had conducted air strikes on Hezbollah observation posts in Lebanon in response to fire from across the border directed at its troops.

17 August

Staff Writer With AFP

PKK Says Shot Down Turkish Helicopter in Iraq

The PKK said Monday it had shot down a Turkish helicopter in Iraqi Kurdistan in retaliation for the death of one of its commanders last week.

Jul- 2020 -

29 July

Staff Writer With AFP

India Warns China After Receiving New Fighter Jets From France

The first five Rafale fighter jets bought from France in a multi-billion-dollar deal landed in India on Wednesday and the defense minister used their arrival to launch a veiled warning to neighboring China over territorial tensions.

28 July