A Boeing 787-800 airplane operated by Qatar Airways collided with an Airbus A350-900 after strong winds dislodged the aircraft from chocks that secures its wheels. "During extreme weather conditions, with storms and high winds of 70 knots, a parked Qatar Airways 787-800 briefly shifted from its chocks and made contact with a QR A350-900 on Thursday 30 April," Qatar Airways posted on its Twitter account
Leonardo has modified helmets and oxygen masks to keep pilots safe from getting infected from COVID-19 infection. “As the situation surrounding Covid-19 evolves, Leonardo Helicopters (UK) has found unique ways to adapt social distancing methods to the cockpit ensuring crew safety
Germany and France have signed two agreements to launch the development of a new Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) intended to replace the Lepoard 2 and Leclerc tanks in the 2030s. German defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and her French counterpart, Florence Parly, signed the framework and implementation agreements on the Franco-German Main Ground Combat System (MGCS), Germany's Federal Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on its website on 28 April, stating that this was "an important signal for European defence co-operation"
Dassault Aviation delivered the third ATL2 maritime patrol aircraft (PATMAR) modernized to Standard 6 to the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) in mid-April. The contract for the upgraded (standard 6) ATL2 combat system was awarded by the DGA on October 4, 2013
Chinese naval and aerial forces followed US guided missile destroyer USS Barry when it ‘trespassed into China's territorial waters off Xisha Islands in South China Sea (SCS), warned and expelled it, Chinese Navy has claimed. The incident happened near Xisha island today, Senior Colonel Li Huamin, a spokesperson of the PLA Southern Theater Command said on Twitter and to local media
Elbit Systems announced today that it was awarded a $103 million contract to supply comprehensive Electronic Warfare (EW) suites for an Air Force of an Asian country. Elbit Systems will fit the customers helicopters with complete EW suites, including countermeasure systems
The US Navy accepted the delivery of $4 billion USS Zumwalt destroyer on Friday, three years after the service commissioned the stealthy warship. “The Navy accepted delivery of USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the lead ship of the Navy's next-generation of multi-mission surface combatants, on April 24
Huntington Ingalls Industries Ingalls Shipbuilding division delivered the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) to the US Navy on April 24
Eighteen sailors onboard the US Navys USS Kidd Arleigh Burke-class destroyer were found to be infected with the COVID-19 virus on Friday. “A Sailor assigned to USS Kidd (DDG 100) tested positive for COVID-19 after being medically evacuated to the United States from operations at sea, April 23
Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has denied the US Navys claims that it “harassed” the services warships in the Arabian Sea on April 19. Tehran has said that it only increased patrols in the Gulf after the US Navy blocked the path of one of its ships in two separate incidents in April