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Hi everyone, It’s been a long time since I’ve been here...I’m back!!! :wink: Adla SIGINT C-160G aircraft successor has been announced by French MoD on Feb 28th. Both Transall should be replaced by three Falcon (7X?) Epicure, with CUGE capability (for EW Universal Capability), from 2025. Below is a l...

http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/au-moins-un-mort-dans-le-crash-d-un-helicoptere-de-la-gendarmerie-dans-les-hautes-pyrenees-20-05-2016-5813557.php Un hélicoptère de la gendarmerie de Tarbes s'est écrasé ce vendredi midi durant une mission en altitude à Cauterets, dans les Hautes-Pyrénées avec ...

http://news.yahoo.com/french-military-buy-us-c-130-transport-aircraft-151721875.html Washington (AFP) - The United States has given the go-ahead for its ally France to buy four Lockheed Martin C-130J military aircraft, a rival to the French-built Airbus A400M. The US Defense Security Cooperation Ag...

The three first Rafales should leave Istres AB tomorrow for Egypt

http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/Indre-et-Loire/Actualite/Faits-divers-justice/n/Contenus/Articles/2014/12/10/Un-Alphajet-s-ecrase-a-Vouvray-un-mort-et-au-moins-quatre-blesses-2149048 Tonight, at 17h30LT, an Alphajet from BA105 crashed in Vouvray, near Tours, during a night training mission. Both...

Yesterday evening around 21h00, an EC-725 crashed during a night training exercise in Burkina Faso. One SF was killed while 2 soldiers were wounded.

http://www.janes.com/article/44758/a-7-corsair-ii-finally-retires-from-service The Hellenic Air Force (HAF) held a decommissioning ceremony for its LTV (later Vought) A-7 Corsair II aircraft at Araxos Air Base, home of the 116 Combat Wing, on 17 October. The world's last operator of the A-7 Corsair...

http://www.janes.com/article/44750/oman-retires-jaguars The Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO) has held a ceremony to mark the retirement of its fleet of SEPECAT Jaguar attack aircraft at the Al-Shafaq Club in Seeb, the Oman News Agency reported on 16 October. It added that the Jaguars, which had been ...

http://www.janes.com/article/44606/uk-to-deploy-reaper-uavs-to-fight-islamic-state-in-iraq The United Kingdom is to deploy an undisclosed number of General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Iraq as part of its ongoing efforts to combat Islamic State. The turboprop aircraft will...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/16/us-boeing-brazil-helicopters-idUSKCN0I503120141016?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews (Reuters) - The Brazilian Army has expressed interest in buying a handful of Boeing Co (BA.N) CH-47 Chinook helicopters, the company said on Wednesday, saying that it cont...

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20141016/DEFREG02/310160032/New-US-Navy-E-2D-Aircraft-Goes-Operational WASHINGTON — The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye has been declared to be operational, meaning that deployment training for the US Navy’s newest airborne warning and control aircraft can begin in earnest....

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=68485 ALGIERS - An Algerian air force plane crashed Monday in the south of the country during a training exercise, killing the two soldiers on board, the defence ministry said. It said the Sukhoi Su-24, a bomber first developed in the former Soviet Unio...

http://www.janes.com/article/44031/sikorsky-s-97-raider-to-fly-this-year Sikorsky Aircraft unveiled the first of two S-97 Raider helicopter prototypes on 2 October at its facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. Test flights will begin this year, company officials said. "Sikorsky will begin ground tes...

http://www.thelocal.at/20141008/crippled-eurofighter-stays-grounded-in-innsbruck An advanced Eurofighter aircraft which was forced to make an emergency landing on Thursday remains grounded at Innsbruck airport, guarded by military police while technicians struggle to make it airworthy again. While ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/04/us-germany-defence-idUSKCN0HT0OB20141004 (Reuters) - German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen wants to revive the high-altitude reconnaissance drone Euro Hawk after the government backed away from plans to buy some last year, a German newspaper said on ...