Libyas army chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, was killed on Tuesday when a private jet carrying him and senior military officials crashed near Ankara shortly after taking off for Tripoli. The Dassault Falcon 50-type aircraft departed Ankaras Esenboğa airport at 8:10pm local time (17:10 GMT), according to Turkeys Interior...
Lockheed Martin has won a $10 billion contract modification from the U.S
China has tested Y-30, a new multi-mission tactical transport aircraft that can be used for personnel and cargo transport besides configured as a surveillance, electronic warfare and specialist payload aircraft. Though not officially confirmed, including its designation, various media reported the first test flight of the "Y-30" held on Tuesday,...
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Brazil and Poland have signed new agreements to deepen cooperation on the Embraer KC-390 program, including steps toward joint production and regional aircraft support. Embraer announced in Warsaw on December 2 that it had signed five new memorandums of understanding with Polands state-owned defense group Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) and several...
Boeing has received a new contract from the U.S
Hungary has taken delivery of three L-39 Skyfox tactical training aircraft and its second C-390 Millennium multi-mission transport aircraft in Kecskemét, marking another phase in the countrys defence and air force development program. The Defence Ministry confirmed that
Indonesias Minister of Defense, Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, joined the
Experts in Turkey are reportedly investigating whether a military transport plane that crashed in Georgia on Tuesday may have been shot down. This is according to Abdulkadir Selvi, a columnist for the pro-government newspaper
A Turkish C-130 military transport aircraft carrying 20 people crashed in Georgia on November 11 while returning from Azerbaijan, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed. “We are deeply saddened to learn that one of our C-130 military aircraft, en route from Azerbaijan to our country, has crashed near the Georgia-Azerbaijan border,” Erdogan said in Ankara
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Airbus Defence and Space has delivered the first A400M aircraft to Indonesias Ministry of Defence, with the heavy tactical airlifter to be operated by the Indonesian Air Force.