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UK Grounds Hawk Trainer Fleet After RAF Valley Crash as Replacement Race Heats Up

UK Grounds Hawk Trainer Fleet After RAF Valley Crash as Replacement Race Heats Up

The UK Royal Air Force has grounded its entire Hawk T1 and Hawk T2 training fleet after a Hawk T2 crashed shortly after take-off from...

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ESEN: Sierra Nevada’s Ankara Affiliate and Its Growing ISR, EW and Avionics Line-Up

ESEN: Sierra Nevada’s Ankara Affiliate and Its Growing ISR, EW and Avionics Line-Up

Few US defence companies have an engineering house embedded in Türkiye's defence ecosystem. Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) does. ESEN Sistem Entegrasyon, established in Ankara in...

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326 Days at Sea and One Fire: The Navy Still Promises USS Ford Back in Six Months

326 Days at Sea and One Fire: The Navy Still Promises USS Ford Back in Six Months

USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy's newest and most expensive aircraft carrier, returned home in May after 326 days at sea — the longest American...

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RAF Lands the A400M on Grass in Poland as NATO Tests Dispersed Airlift

RAF Lands the A400M on Grass in Poland as NATO Tests Dispersed Airlift

The Royal Air Force has been landing an A400M Atlas on grass in Poland. Crews from 70 Squadron trained at Powidz alongside Polish Air Force...

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France Green-Lights Rafale F5: New Radar, 20% More Thrust and ASN4G

France Green-Lights Rafale F5: New Radar, 20% More Thrust and ASN4G

France has signed the first contracts for the Rafale F5 standard, the configuration meant to carry the fighter into the threat environment of the 2030s....

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What Is the Bayraktar Kızılelma? Türkiye’s Unmanned Combat Aircraft and the Striking Power of TCG Anadolu

What Is the Bayraktar Kızılelma? Türkiye’s Unmanned Combat Aircraft and the Striking Power of TCG Anadolu

Bottom Line: The Bayraktar Kızılelma is a jet-powered, low-observable unmanned combat aircraft (MIUS) developed by Baykar. It first flew on 14 December 2022 and is...

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France Turns the A400M Into a Flying Command Node: ISR, a Drone Mothership and Collaborative Combat

France Turns the A400M Into a Flying Command Node: ISR, a Drone Mothership and Collaborative Combat

Bottom Line: Airbus Defence and Space will develop a new mission system (Parallel Mission System) giving French A400M transports intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance (ISR) and tactical command-and-control; the...

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Who Operates the GÖKBEY? Agencies, Missions & Configurations

Who Operates the GÖKBEY? Agencies, Missions & Configurations

The GÖKBEY (T625) utility helicopter.The GÖKBEY (T625) was designed around a "one platform, many missions" architecture, meeting both military and civil needs from a single...