One of the world’s most significant international aerospace shows, Farnborough, will open its doors for the first time since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Airshow was last displayed in 2018. After four years of the interval of the Airshow, Turkish Defence, aerospace and airframe production companies will attend the show despite the weak Turkish Lira against the USD and Sterling.
Greek Air Force staff and BAE systems officials met in Athens to add Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) capacity to Greek fighters.
United Kingdom’s “future uncrewed Combat Aircraft Technology Demonstration” Project Mosquito will not proceed beyond the design phase.
British Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace visited Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar in Ankara.
Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft performed NATO Missions in Turkiye and attended the International Anatolian Eagle-2022 Training. Turkish Defence ministry announced from its social media accounts that Royal Air Force Eurofighter aircraft attended Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) NATO Maritime cooperation training along with Turkish Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. Turkish aircraft took off from Konya and Bandırma Air Bases.
Ministerial meeting on 16 June, the Ministers of six countries, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK, launched a new concept of a next-generation military helicopter, Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability (NGRC). They agreed to allocate €26.7m ($28.2m) to define their military’s requirements for a new medium multi-role helicopter to replace in these countries in the next 15-20 years. In November 2020, Scramble Magazine reported on five countries signing a Letter of Intent (LoI) to develop a new helicopter capability to replace the existing helicopters in their inventory. Spain and the US, which had expressed interest, ultimately did not join up. The UK is the leading nation for the project.
A British Army drone Watchkeeper crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Greek Cyprus. The £30m army drone first entered service in 2014 in Afghanistan. But the unmanned platform has crashed at least seven times. On the other hand, the Romanian Defence Ministry cancelled the acquisition of drones.
Britain will send 70 Husky TSV armoured vehicles to Ghana to help improve security along the northern part of the country's border.
President of SSB Professor Demir answered TurDef's questions about the visit to the UK to discuss Turkish / British cooperation on the TF-X engine.
According to Sampson, Qatar's first batch of Typhoon fighter jets will arrive in August this year.
The British Ministry of Defence issued a tender to procure up to 44 New Medium Helicopters (NMH) to replace the Royal Air Force's existing helicopters.
Nine companies from Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), Poland, have signed a cooperation agreement with the MBDA UK to develop anti-tank vehicles.
The planned contacts for the United Kingdom for Turkiye's national combat aircraft TF-X have begun.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and British 2Excel Aviation have conducted a demonstration of IAI's Maritime HERON UAS in a variety of scenarios, including life, beyond visual line of sight maritime search, and ISR. West Wales Airport in Aberporth, Wales, served as the base for the demonstration.
