New Double Seated JF-17 Thunder Jet Added In na Pak Airforce

 

F-16 Night Refueling

 

The Wooden Planes That Terrorised The Luftwaffe

 

Italian shipyard Offer its Surface Combatant Ship to Indonesia

 

Japan Wants to Sell the Frigates to Indonesia, the Italian Offer also Appears

Among the priorities of the Tokyo government is the export of military equipment with particular attention to the area of ​​Japanese influence.Japan is allegedly pushing the sale of military ships to Indonesia in order to fuel the vision of a "free Indo-Pacific".The units in question would be the "30FFM" classified as destroyers by Japan but frigates in all respects.Tokyo has in fact chosen to launch this new class of ships to support the larger units and carry out the "minor" tasks.A way to increase the operational capacity and the number of ships available to the Chief of Staff to face China more widely. The numbers are in fact very important: 8 units for the first batch and 22 for the second.The price, including four units, should be 300 billion yen for the Indonesian tax payer .

Taking into account the exchange rate (1 yen = 0.0082 euros as of November 6, 2020), the expenditure is 2.45 billion euros, specifically 612 million euros per unit.The proposed Japanese units, which can give us a rough idea of ​​what Jakarta wants, have a displacement of around 5,000 tons, a length of 130 meters and a width of 16 meters.The armament consists of a Mk-45 cannon in the bow, two quadruple Type 17 anti-ship missile launchers, a SeaRAM launcher, Type 12 light torpedoes and 16 VLS Mk-41 cells.Propulsion is ensured by a Rolls Royce MT30 gas turbine and two MAN diesel generators , in the CODAG (Combined Diesel and Gas) configuration, capable of propelling the Japanese frigate to more than 30 knots.The radar is the AESA OPY-2 in X-band is derived from the FCS-3 already installed on several units of the Japanese Navy. To complete the suite of sensors, the OAX-3 for EO/IR, OQQ-25 consisting of the sonar in the bow and the trailed bulb and OQQ-11 for minesweeper operations. All managed by the OYQ-1 Combat Management System (CMS).

The frigates are also capable of carrying out "minesweepers" missions thanks to the use of remotely controlled means and to lay mines.The diamond point of the ships is the innative bridge that uses virtual reality.A total of 90 crew members can be found on board.

First Spanish Air Force woman to go solo on Eurofighter

 Lieutenant Elena Gutiérrez has become the first woman to fly a Eurofighter fighter for the Spanish Air Force alone , and she already operates with this aircraft from the base of Morón de la Frontera (Seville). As sources from the base have informed Efe, the first flight took place last week during the so-called "releases" of the 20-02 course.

In military jargon, the "loose" are the first flights carried out by pilots alone, after training to take command of the two models of combat aircraft in service in the Air Force, the F-18 and the Eurofighter. , which begins at the General Air Academy (AGA) of San Javier in Murcia. The hunting and attack school is located in Wing 23 of the Talavera la Real air base (Badajoz), where Elena Gutiérrez was the only woman in her class . After passing this stage, the new lieutenants arrive at the destination units where the last step takes place, the operational conversion courses to F-18s or Eurofighters.The Spanish Air Force operates a fleet of 70 Eurofighter combat aircraft distributed between Wing 14 located at the Los Llanos air base in Albacete and Wing 11 located at the Morón base.

Starting from Dec. 31, Swiss Air Force to provide 24 hours airspace protection

The Swiss Air Force will start having fighters on standby 24 hours a day starting from Dec. 31.

 

RTA's 6th Infantry Division Receives Rafael’s SPIKE Missile systems

 Earlier this year, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems supplied the Royal Thai Army (RTA) a supply of SPIKE MR - medium range - missiles for its 6th Infantry Division.

SPIKE MR is an electro-optical Fire & Forget missile, and is part of the wider SPIKE missile family, consisting of the SR, MR, LR2, ER2, NLOS variants of electro-optical, multi-purpose, multi-platform missiles, with ranges of up to 32km and fire-and-update capabilities.

To date, SPIKE has been sold to 35 countries, including 19 NATO nations, with over 33,000 missiles already supplied and more than 6,000 fired in tests and in combat. SPIKE missiles have been integrated onto 45 different vehicular, helicopter and naval platforms.

Russian airborne units aboard the Il-76 aircraft