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Five more MH-47G Block II Chinooks for the US Army Special Operations Aviation Command

31 March 2025 Jacek Domański

Last week, Boeing announced the US Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC) awarded the company a contract worth 240 million USD to remanufacture five MH-47G Block II Chinook rotorcraft. The deliveries were set to begin […]

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Over the Pacific – from Tahiti to New Zealand in CASA CN-235

23 March 2025 Jacek Domański

In the last few weeks, Armée de l’air et de l’espace (the French Air and Space Force) performed a few interesting operations with Airbus A400M Atlas airlifter in extreme weather conditions. They included two cold […]

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Airbus A400M Atlas in the Far North – part two: Beyond the Polar Circle

16 March 2025 Jacek Domański

At the beginning of this month, the French Equipe de Marque Avion de Transport Tactique (Test and Evaluation Squadron for Tactical Airlift – EMATT) has started another stage of the cold weather test operation programme […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Airbus A400M Atlas in equatorial forest – operation BUBO25

12 March 2025 Jacek Domański

On 24th February 2025, Armée de l’air et de l’espace (the French Air and Space Force) achieved another milestone by successful deployment of Airbus A400M Atlas to equatorial area of French Guiana. It was the […]

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Royal Navy UAV helicopter tracking smugglers and drug traffickers in the Middle East

3 March 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Peregrine is a Royal Navy (RN) variant of the three-metres-long (10 ft) civilian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) rotorcraft S-100 Camcopter, made by Schiebel company from Austria. The RN-specific variant is equipped with the tailored UK […]

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UTVA 75 – the (almost) forgotten Yugoslavian trainer

26 February 2025 Jacek Domański

A little while ago, the Serbian Ministry of Defence (Министарство одбране Републике Србије) published a reportage related to aviation training programme which was ongoing at the Colonel-Pilot Milenko Pavlović military airfield in Batajnica. The course […]

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40th anniversary of Patrulla Águila and the final performance of the Spanish jet aerobatic team

23 February 2025 Jacek Domański

On 21st February 2025, Margarita Robles, the Spanish Minister of Defence, visited Academia General del Aire y del Espacio (the General Academy of the Air and Space Force) in San Javier. The local air force […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Seventeen CH-47JA Block II Chinook helicopters for Japan

17 February 2025 Jacek Domański

Since the 1980s, Boeing and Kawasaki delivered more than one hundred Chinooks to the JSDF. The helicopters were manufactured through one of the longest lasting and most successful license manufacturing programmes in Japan. ´This award […]

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Cold weather experiment – Airbus A400M Atlas

5 February 2025 Jacek Domański

Between 13th and 20th January 2025, the French Equipe de Marque Avion de Transport Tactique (Test and Evaluation Squadron for Tactical Airlift – EMATT) intensively tested capabilities of the Airbus A400M Atlas airlifter by operating […]

MILITARY AVIATION

NATO Iceland Air Policing – the Finnish debut

20 January 2025 Jacek Domański

In February this year, the Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat) will, for the first time, participate in the NATO Iceland Air Policing mission. The Finnish deployment will consist of four F/A-18 Hornet fighters and about 50 […]

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