European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has delivered the first upgraded Tranche 1 Eurofighter to the Spanish Air Force. According to a news release put out by Airbus, the upgrade was carried out at Airbus facilities in Getafe and involved the introduction of hardware modifications which support the Operational Flight Program 02 (OFP-02) developed by the Armament and Experimental […]

South Korea has started talks with Spain about a potential sale of KT-1 and T-50 trainer jets in exchange for military transport aircraft Airbus A400M. Korea’s officials said the Ministry of National Defense and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) have been reviewing Spain’s proposal to trade some of its A-400M transport planes, made by Airbus, for […]

Star Defense Logistics & Engineering has announced on 24 January that Spanish Army to repair fleet of RG-31 vehicles. According to a company’s statement, the Spanish Ministry of Defense has awarded Star Defence Logistics & Engineering (SDLE) the contract for the repair and maintenance of the Army’s RG-31 Armoured Mine-Protected Personnel Carrier Vehicle (MPV). By […]

Boeing has announced a plans to modernize entire Spanish CH-47D Chinook helicopter fleet to the CH-47F configuration. Boeing will upgrade all 17 of Spain’s CH-47D Chinook (designated HT.17 in national service) helicopters to the F-model configuration, adding features such as the digital automatic flight control system, common avionics architecture system and advanced cargo handling to align […]

The Madrid-based company Star Defense Logistics & Engineering (SDLE) has announced that the company will present its Dragoon tactical armored vehicle at the first Egypt Defense Expo (EDEX). EDEX will be hosted at the International Exhibition Center in Egypt on 3, 4 and 5 December 2018. The event hosts more than 300 exhibitors from around […]

The Spanish Ministry of Defence (MOD) and TAURUS Systems GmbH (TSG) signed a contract on 26th September in Madrid for an upgrade and maintenance of the operational capability of the TAURUS KEPD 350 Weapon System used by the Spanish Air Force. The contract value is just below 30 million Euros. The TAURUS KEPD 350 has […]

Star Defense Logistics & Engineering (SDLE) has been awarded, through a framework contract signed with the Spanish Ministry of Defense for 2018-2019 and worth 240.000 euros, the “Development and Supply of a Reprogramming System of Ballistic Calculators for the Leopardo 2E ” for the Spanish Army. The reprogramming system will provide the Army with the […]

The Estonian Defence Forces have reported that a Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon 2000 multirole fighter accidentally launched an air-to-air missile in the Estonian air space on 7 August. According to the statement, an incident occurred on 7 August at 3:44 PM EEDT over the village of Pangodi near the city of Otepaa. The Eurofighter ‘s missile was […]

On 3 July, Fernando Alonso, Airbus’s head of military aircraft, said in an interview with a The Financial Times that ” the [A400M] programme’s troubled history is nearing its end”. The industrial problems that hampered the programme and led to management changes in 2015 had been resolved, he said. This year, aircraft were being delivered “on the date […]

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of five AEGIS Weapons Systems at an estimated cost of $860.4 million to Spain.  The sale, which was announced by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) on 26 June, is includede  five AEGIS Weapons Systems (AWS) MK7, six shipsets Digital Signal Processing, five shipsets AWS Computing Infrastructure MARK […]