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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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ORSEC operation in French Guiana

15 January 2025 Jacek Domański

Since 2023, French Guiana – an overseas department of France located in the northern part of South America, between Suriname and Brazil – is suffering from extreme drought. In addition, the eighteen-month-long dry season French […]

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Operation Estrella Polar III – presidential visit at the South Pole

8 January 2025 Jacek Domański

On 3rd January 2025, the President of Chile Gabriel Boric, landed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, therefore beginning the first official visit of Latin American president at the South Pole. The presidential flight was […]

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Twilight of crewed combat aircraft? Perhaps in centuries, expert says.

18 December 2024 Jacek Domański

At the end of November 2024, the tech guru and entrepreneur Elon Musk – and probably the future head of the new US Department of Government Efficiency – posted a series of messages on X […]

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End of the era – the last operational flight of MiG-21 in Europe

9 December 2024 Jacek Domański

On 30th November 2024, the Croatian Ministry of Defence officially announced the final operational flight of the MiG-21 fighter of the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence (Hrvatsko ratno zrakoplovstvo i protuzračna obrana – CroAF). […]

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