Embraer showcased a pair of KC-390s at the Paris Air Show 2023 for the first time as it looks to secure further international orders for the tanker-transport aircraft. (Janes/Gareth Jennings)
Embraer is eyeing NATO as a potential customer for its KC-390 Millennium as part of a wider push to promote the tanker-transport aircraft to the international market.
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Russia has been using some extraordinary methods, including suicide tanks, to try and stop the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
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As the streaming war rages on, Netflix has dropped a bombshell, altering its stance on password sharing and demanding login via original IP addresses.
For military families, service members deployed, and everyone who uses VPNs to remain safe abroad, this new rule feels less like a policy update and more like friendly fire. Netflix’s new password-sharing policy feels less like a friendly “we’re saving you from identity theft” type update and more like walking into a surprise ambush on a Monday morning before you’ve had your coffee.
With American forces fully out of Afghanistan and the elected government ousted, the Taliban has to do the important and sometimes boring job of actually governing the country. This means it has to handle things like foreign relations and watershed management. It’s covering both jobs the only way the Taliban knows how: with violence.
The Helmand River is the longest river in Afghanistan, some 790 miles long, flowing from its source in the Hindu Kush, all the way across the country and into neighboring Iran.
Technology developed during WWII led to advancements in civilian engineering after the war. Pressurized cabins and improved aeronautical design allowed companies to build larger planes that could fly higher and further than before. Boeing, which developed iconic heavy bombers like the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress, adapted its large aircraft technology to create the 377 Stratocruiser airliner.
The B-29 is the only aircraft to drop nuclear weapons in combat (U.S. Air Force)
In 1939, the U.S.
When you hear the phrase “Rolling Thunder,” you might picture a big, booming storm. Or maybe you think of the advocacy group that aims to bring accountability for POWs and those MIA. But in the context of the Vietnam Conflict, Operation Rolling Thunder means something entirely different. It’s a term from one of the most complicated and influential times in American history.
Even decades later, the Vietnam War remains a complex, multi-faceted conflict, affecting not only the course of global politics but the lives of millions.
In September 2000, a hostage situation unfolded in Sierra Leone during a knee-deep civil war and rampant chaos. Amid this turmoil, a group of British soldiers were under the United Nations‘ banner. The service members were doing their best to keep the peace. But life had other plans. These men found themselves in the crosshairs of the West Side Boys. WSB was a rebel group that had a knack for making trouble. This was the crucible that birthed Operation Barras, an audacious rescue mission that would test the mettle of the British forces to their core. A real baptism by fire.
Leonardo RAT 31DL/M radar will be delivered to the German Air Force to supplement its air-defence capabilities. (Janes/Patrick Allen )
Leonardo will deliver a new tactical RAT 31DL/M long-range deployable air-defence radar (DADR) to the German Air Force following an agreement with the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), the company announced at the Paris Air Show 2023 held between 19 and 25 June.
This will be the third system delivered by the company to the German Air Force since 2007.
The two radars currently in service will receive a mid-life upgrade as part of this contract.
The US, Russia, and China are all testing hypersonic technology, generating fears of escalating global competition for weaponry that has the potential to render current defences inadequate.
For the past five years, MBDA has been working on options for counter-hypersonic air defence.
The counter-hypersonic solutions project is named the “Aquilia”. MBDA, Europe’s biggest defence systems supplier, has built on its Aster anti-missile interceptor – a surface-to-air missile designed to intercept destroy a range of air threats.
The third MANSUP test launch was carried out in July 2019. (Marinha do Brasil)
The Brazilian Navy and the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) Edge Group signed an agreement on 14 June to co-operate on the development of a “family of anti-ship missiles”, the navy announced two days later.
Brazilian Navy Chief Fleet Admiral José Augusto Vieira da Cunha de Menezes said Edge would help form a sustainable business model for the sale and production of the National Surface Anti-Ship Missile (MANSUP).