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DefenseProfumo: "Leonardo helps growing the whole Italian industry"
At Le Bourget the CEO hopes programs to built a new European fighter converge
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Defense Minister Elisabetta Trenta went to Paris "Le Bourget" Air Show to support large and small Italian companies, in a crucial strategic sector for Italian economy.... more
DefenseUSA, ultimatum to Turkey
Ankara will have to choose between F-35 aircraft and S-400 missiles
With us or against us. The US ultimatum to Turkey has arrived: by the end of July, Ankara will have to choose between the United States (thus remaining both as a buyer and as a developer in Lockheed Martin's... more
DefenseIs new US CVN-79 aircraft carrier incompatible with F-35 airplanes?
Problems could concern catapults and the stopping cables
The US Navy's new Ford class aircraft carrier, CVN-79, may not be able to deploy F-35C aircraft. Or at least not immediately. The issue is contained in a draft of the National Defense Authorization... more
DefenseF-35 aircraft: stop USA to train Turkish pilots and technicians
Next move the exclusion from the aircraft program? In the center, the S-400 node
Only a few days ago Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated that he did not want to withdraw from the agreement for the purchase of the Russian anti-aircraft missile system S-400 (see AVIONEWS),... more
DefensePutin answers to Trump: "Ready not to prolong the nuclear deal"
The international tension arises after the US withdrawal from the Inf. Treaty
"With the withdrawal from the arms reduction treaties, the United States has weakened the international relations in the field of global security", said Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting... more
DefenseAerospace and Defense: two Chinese launches in a few days from the Yellow Sea
Beijing warning in Washington
China shows its muscles rattling arrows throughout its aerospace and defense industry in front of the world, and especially in the eyes of Trump's America. Within a few days, the Nation had scored... more
DefenseS-400, Erdogan: "We do confirm the purchase"
The Turkish president said he won't withdraw from the agreement with Russia
Turkey will not turn back on the S-400s. "We have an agreement that is currently being implemented; there is no intention to leaving, we have committed ourselves", said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,... more
DefenseUsa, Pompeo: new nuclear deal with Iran is possible
The US Secretary of State met Angela Merkel in Berlin
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Heiko Mass in an official visit to Berlin. He has spoken with the German government about the question of military spending,... more
DefenseMoscow-Tokyo easing of tensions in bilateral talks today in Japan
Cooperation on various topics. But there remains the friction on the Kurils
Several signs of easing of tensions between Moscow and Tokyo that arrive in these hours, the fourth round of talks between Foreign and Defense ministers of Russia and Japan opened today in Tokyo, where... more
DefensePutin proposes the INF Treaty suspension to the Duma
On the destruction of medium and short-range ballistic missiles. But already Trump wanted to get out of it
According to local press reports, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented to the State Duma a bill on the suspension, including by Moscow, of the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or Washington... more
DefenseAirplanes, helicopters, armaments. The best of the Russian industry at "Maks"
And at "IMDS": they will take place in July and late August
Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec State Corporation) is providing support to the largest international exhibitions of armaments and military equipment, which are to be held in Russia in 2019. The company... more
DefenseRussian Coast Guard will employ drone airplanes
They'll be used to strengthen and speed up water patrol operations
The Russian Coast Guard will use drone planes on helicopter ships to patrol its territorial waters and its exclusive economic zone, according to the Coast Guard's head of border service department,... more
DefenseAlso Poland is targeting F-35 aircraft
US fighter sales have grown by 13% in the last year
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak has announced via Twitter that Poland is planning to purchase 32 F-35 fighter aircraft. Warsaw needs to replace the old planes of the Soviet era and looks with... more
DefenseThe trade war between USA and China turns to military technology
Beijing evaluates stop the supplies of materials to build American rockets
The escalation in the trade war between the United States and China continues to level up. Beijing, very irritated by the increase in tariffs and the supply ban imposed by Trump against the giant of telecommunications... more
DefenseStill US Navy ships in the Taiwan Strait
Beijing hardly tolerates provocation in an already tense climate
The US informs that it has again sent two naval ships to sail the waters of the Taiwan Strait, in clear scorn towards China and its increasingly aggressive attitude towards its borders in the South China... more
DefenseRussia: exercises for the Black Sea fleet warships
With launch of Kalibr cruise missiles
The press office of the Black Sea Fleet (the component of the Russian Navy that operates in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea), announced today that an exercise has just ended which saw the "Admiral... more
DefenseUS fighter planes "plug" Russian bombers flying over neutral waters
It's intimidation, says Moscow
Moscow's Defense Ministry said that four Tu-95MS strategic bombers of the Russian Air Force flew over the waters of the Ochotsk, Bering and Ciukci seas, on a planned flight mission to last over 12... more
DefenseLeonardo presents its simulation and training services in Stockholm
Industry at the dedicated international forum
This year Leonardo is a major exhibitor at "ITEC 2019", the annual forum dedicated to simulation, education and training in the military and civil domains.Training and simulation is a rapidly expanding... more
DefenseBriteCloud will be tested by the US Air National Guard
It is Leonardo's electronic protection system
Leonardo has announced at the "Electronic Warfare Europe" conference (Stockholm, 13-15 May) that the United States Department of Defense has selected its BriteCloud expendable active decoy (EAD) to be... more
DefenseThe new Pentagon's head comes from the top of Boeing
Wanted by Trump, it's Patrick Shanahan, former Interim Defense Minister
Donald Trump has appointed the current Pentagon chief secretary since July 2017 as Patrick Shanahan. If confirmed by the Senate he will succeed Jim Mattis, who left in December 2018 in open contrast to... more
DefenseUSA: another ICBM Minuteman-III missile test
From the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California -VIDEO
A note from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in Santa Barbara County, California, states that the United States conducted another test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Minuteman-III without... more
DefenseNuclear: Germany, France and the UK reject Iran's ultimatum
Distances also from US sanctions: the joint statement
London and Paris, permanent members of the UN Security Council, and Berlin, rejected today in a joint statement the ultimatum launched yesterday by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani when in a speech to... more
DefenseIran wants to renegotiate the terms of the nuclear pact
Rouhani threatens the West. Macron threatens European sanctions. China calls for common commitment
It was in the air for a long time, that is when, exactly one year ago, with unilateral decision, America announced the exit from the Iranian nuclear agreement (JCPOA, Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action),... more
DefenseMissiles: Ankara still a niche between the S-400 and the Patriot
The Minister of Defense Akar: more advantageous than the previous US offer
Ankara, apparently the eternal undecided, fought between the Western and Middle Eastern worlds, and between Washington and Moscow, is not denying even with regard to the affair of the S-400 anti-aircraft... more
DefenseAircraft and defense. Aselsan presents new Aesa radar
It will be integrated on the Turkish F-16 fleet - VIDEO
Aselsan, a Turkish company active in the production of tactical military radio equipment and electronic defense systems for the Turkish Armed Forces presented at "IDEF 2019", the international defense... more
DefenseNato ships enter the Baltic Sea led by a Danish frigate
Moscow observes calling action a "psychological pressure"
According to what the Russian press reported this morning, a group of NATO ships led by the Danish frigate "Tethis" class entered the waters of the Baltic Sea, kept under observation by Moscow, which considers... more
DefenseUSA. Trump studies a nuclear deal with China and Russia
Attempt to control armaments
After the United States exits from the INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty), President Donald Trump is conducting negotiations with other federal departments to draw up a new nuclear... more
DefenseChina-Russia: a joint naval exercise from Monday
Beijing's new aircraft carrier could also participate
While the United States is practicing in the Mediterranean Sea in a series of maneuvers in which two aircraft carriers participate -the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS John C. Stennis-, with their respective... more
DefenseUSA: maxi-exercise with two aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean
First time since 2016
For the first time since 2016, two US Navy aircraft carrier groups -the USS "Abraham Lincoln" and the USS "John C. Stennis"- have initiated a joint training maneuver in the Mediterranean, during which... more
DefenseF-35 plane: cost will increase by another 22 billion dollars
Due to updates and costs for aircraft fleet maintenance
The program of the fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft could -according to an analysis published on "Bloomberg"- cost 22 billion dollars (19.55 billion euros) more in the coming years, in what... more