Category -- Air -- The Defense Post

Apr- 2023 -

18 April

Rojoef Manuel

JACKAL Drone Fires First Lightweight Multirole Missile

The Thales lightweight multirole missile has been fired from a JACKAL aerial drone for the first time.

18 April

Rojoef Manuel

Hypersonix, Rocket Lab Team for First US Hypersonic Drone Test

Hypersonix and Rocket Lab have partnered to conduct the US Defense Innovation Unit’s first hypersonic drone test.

18 April

Image shows a. RAF Voyager from RAF Brize Norton landing at Nellis Air Force Base during Red Flag 23-1. A Royal Air Force detachment, operating from Nellis Air Base Nevada, is honing its cutting-edge air combat skills in the largest scale Exercise Red Flag to date. Exercise Red Flag is the pre-eminent annual air combat training exercise run by the United States. The United States Air Force has expanded this long-established exercise to include a vastly increased geographical area to challenge participants to overcome what USAF planners are calling the Tyranny of Distance in addition to the traditional combat air missions of previous exercises. The Exercise has previously been run over the Nevada Test and Training Range and area of 12,000 square miles of airspace and 2.9 million acres of land. Now training areas in Utah and California have been added, as well as missions being flow out over the Californian Pacific Coast. The exercise area has therefore become vast and is aimed to reflect the challenges of conducting air operations at range The RAF detachment of around 300 personnel currently taking part on the exercise is operating seven Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth based II (Army Co-operation) Squadron, plus a Voyager operated from 10 and 101 Squadron based at RAF Brize Norton. In addition, aircrew from 51 Squadron based at RAF Waddington have been integrated into the flight crew of a USAF RC-135 Rivet Joint intelligence gathering aircraft. Australia is the only other nation participating, reflecting the close Defence partnership between our three countries.

Rojoef Manuel

Sustainable Fuel-Powered British Voyager Tanker Performs Air-to-Air Replenishment

The UK Royal Air Force has conducted an air-to-air replenishment using a sustainable aviation fuel-powered Voyager tanker.

18 April

A-29N Super Tucano light attack aircraft in NATO configuration.

Rojoef Manuel

Embraer Showcases Super Tucano Aircraft in NATO Configuration

Embraer has unveiled its A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft in a NATO configuration at a military technology convention in Brazil.

18 April

Joe Saballa

Australia’s Troubled Taipan Choppers Did Not Get Crucial Software Upgrade: Report

Defense insiders have claimed that Australia’s fleet of Taipan helicopters did not receive the necessary software upgrade to operate safely.

17 April

Rojoef Manuel

Next-Gen Batteries to Increase Switchblade Suicide Drone Flight Time by 50%

Amprius Technologies and AeroVironment have teamed to integrate next-generation batteries into Switchblade 300 Block 20 suicide drones.

17 April

Joe Saballa

Saab to Modify Brazil’s C-390 Millennium Aircraft for Swedish Air Force

Saab has sealed an agreement with Brazil’s Embraer to modify the C-390 Millennium military transport aircraft and propose it to the Swedish Air Force.

17 April

The IBCS provides a common mission command and sensor/weapon integration network for all Army AMD echelons that improves protection against threats in complex integrated attack scenarios.

Rojoef Manuel

US Army Integrated Battle Command System Achieves Full-Rate Production

The US Army’s Integrated Fires Mission Command Project has approved the full-rate production of its Integrated Battle Command System.

16 April

Staff Writer With AFP

China Would Gain Swift Air Superiority Over Taiwan, US Leaks Show

China would probably gain air superiority quickly in an attack on Taiwan, something Russia failed to do in Ukraine, leaked US intelligence documents show.

16 April

A man walks in front of a destroyed school in the city of Bakhmut, in the eastern Ukrainian region of the Donbas

Staff Writer With AFP

Russian Strike Kills 11 in Eastern Ukraine, Moscow Claims Gains Near Bakhmut

The death toll from a Russian strike on a block of flats in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk climbed to 11 as Moscow claimed advances near Bakhmut.

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