Defence Notes
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India has been navigating a strategic balancing act in its defence modernisation efforts as it considers deals with Russia and the US.
The land war in Ukraine has dominated the posture, spending and actions of Russia and NATO countries for two years. With a new US Government committed to ending the conflict early in 2025, there are implications on all three of those fronts.
Looming government decisions on major defence programmes in the US and UK will colour much of 2025, while manufacturers and their orderbooks look on.
There was solid programme advancement around the world in 2024, but a combination of more threats, fleet unreadiness and a financial squeeze darkened naval horizons as the year advanced.
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15th March 2010
The Nimrod MRA4 has made significant steps forward with the UK Ministry of Defence formally accepting the aircraft and declaring it ‘ready to train'. This …
12th March 2010
Vueling has announced its traffic statistics for February 2010 featuring a 4.5 percentage point increase in the seat load factor. The airline carried 685,224 passengers …
12th March 2010
British Airways, in the guise of its subsidiary BA CityFlyer, has become the first airline to operate both the Embraer 170 and 190SR out of …
12th March 2010
GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes has announced its results for the fourth quarter of 2009. In 4Q09, GOL posted operating income (EBIT) of R$119.2 million, with …
12th March 2010
The first flight of the Korean Utility Helicopter (KUH), known as the Surion, has taken place in South Korea. The 30-minute flight took place on …
12th March 2010
The Oxford–Edinburgh service launched by Varsity Express on 1 March ended on 8 March after the company fell out with its aircraft operator, Humberside-based LinksAir, …
11th March 2010
Porter Airlines is expanding its schedule to offer five daily roundtrip flights between Boston Logan and Billy Bishop Toronto City airports, from 31 March, adding …
11th March 2010
Frontier Airlines is to extend its seasonal nonstop service between Kansas City and Cancún, offering for the first time summer nonstop service on the route. …
11th March 2010
From 28 March, Air Southwest will increase the number of flights between Plymouth and Guernsey to six a week. “We’re increasing our flights from four …
11th March 2010
Lufthansa Systems has appointed Stefan Hansen as CEO and chairman of the Executive Board for a period of three years. Hansen will join the Executive …
11th March 2010
With expansion of the agreement between the two carriers, American Airlines AAdvantage members now have the ability to redeem AAdvantage miles for flights with Brazilian …
11th March 2010
Flybe has announced that it is to increase services between Birmingham and Edinburgh following the apparent planned withdrawal from the route on 27 March by …
10th March 2010
Flybe has announced a deal as a start-up provider of flight deck and ongoing line engineering and training support, together with acceptance and delivery services, …
10th March 2010
SuperJet International has been awarded Approval Certificate AFL/047 for the MRO EASA Part 145 from Aeroflot Russian Airlines. This certificate denotes that Aeroflot recognises SuperJet …
10th March 2010
Aer Lingus has disclosed to cabin crew representatives measures to achieve the cost savings laid out in its cost reduction programme which was announced in …
10th March 2010
Western Australia-based Skywest Airlines has announced its network operating statistics for the month of February 2010. Skywest’s regular passenger transport (RPT) traffic, measured by revenue …
9th March 2010
Great Lakes Aviation has reported its preliminary passenger traffic results for February 2010. Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) showed a slight increase, by 0.4%, at 9,672,000 …
9th March 2010
Frontier Airlines is to extend its seasonal service to Anchorage, Alaska, by three weeks and will also reintroduce a Saturday daytime flight. The seasonal nonstop …
9th March 2010
Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air have launched three mobile applications designed for iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile users. The free applications are available for download …