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Luftwaffe

Defense
Boeing and Airbus join forces to offer H-47 Chinook helicopter to Germany

Boeing and Airbus join forces to offer H-47 Chinook helicopter to Germany

Boeing and Airbus cooperate to supply Germany with H-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter. ...

Defense
Germany to replace Tornado with F-35 - sources

Germany to replace Tornado with F-35

Germany plans to purchase Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets, the Federal Ministry of Defence announ ...

Defense
German Eurofighter Israeli F-15

International exercise begins with Eurofighters above Jerusalem

Luftwaffe Eurofighters, in formation with IAF jets, fly above Jerusalem as Germany and Israel reconcile. ...

Defense
Cobham to provide countermeasure to German Eurofighters

Cobham to provide countermeasure to German Eurofighters

Cobham Mission Systems will provide the chaff and flare systems for the Tranche 4 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets order...

Defense
First modernized Luftwaffe Tornado takes off for maiden flight

First modernized Luftwaffe Tornado takes off for maiden flight

The first modernized Panavia Tornado took off from Airbus facilities in Manching, Germany, following a process to extend...

Defense
Like a phoenix: German heavy-lift helicopter tender resumes

Like a phoenix: German heavy-lift helicopter tender resumes

After canceling the tender in September 2020, Germany resumed the competition to find a heavy-lift helicopter replacemen ...

Defense
Luftwaffe breaks record for longest Airbus A350 flight

Luftwaffe breaks record for longest Airbus A350 flight

The Luftwaffe broke the record for the longest Airbus A350 flight, flying 17,000 kilometers non-stop from Cologne to Can ...

Defense
governmental plane completes maiden flight

Second German governmental A350 completes maiden flight

The second A350 to be used by the Luftwaffe for the transport of the German government representatives completed its mai ...

Defense
NATO fighters intercept Russian planes flying from Kaliningrad

NATO fighters intercept Russian planes flying from Kaliningrad

In the span of a week, Eurofighter Typhoon jets assigned to NATO Baltic Air Policing mission identified and escorte ...

Defense
Airbus receives order for 38 Eurofighter Typhoons from Germany

Airbus receives order for 38 Eurofighter Typhoons from Germany

The Bundestag, the German parliament, approved the acquisition of 38 Eurofighter Typhoons for the Luftwaffe, in a deal e ...

Defense
Luftwaffe takes delivery of world’s first A350 governmental plane

Luftwaffe takes delivery of world’s first A350 governmental plane

The Luftwaffe, the German Air Force, took delivery from Lufthansa Technik of the first new Airbus A350 due to operate as ...

Defense
Lufthansa Technik orders two Airbus A321LR for German Air Force

Lufthansa Technik orders two Airbus A321LR for Luftwaffe

Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) has won the first A321LR order for two aircraft from Lufthansa Technik. ...

Defense
Airbus to modernize German Eurofighter Typhoon simulators

Airbus to modernize German Eurofighter Typhoon simulators

The Pilot Synthetic Training System (PSTS) consortium under the industrial leadership of Airbus has been commissioned to ...

MRO
Finishing touches for German governmental A350 XWB

Finishing touches for German governmental A350 XWB

The first A350 of the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force, flew from Toulouse, France to Hamburg, Germany, to receive a tran ...

Defense
Germany chooses Boeing F-18 to replace aging Tornado fleet

Germany picks Boeing F-18 to replace aging Tornado fleet

Germany has officially confirmed to the United States that it would acquire 45 F/A-18 Super Hornets from Boeing to repla...

Defense
German A400M evacuates two French coronavirus patients

German A400M evacuates two French coronavirus patients

An A400M Atlas transporter of the Luftwaffe was used to transport patients hospitalized in Strasbourg, France, towards U...

Defense
German military refuses new A400M deliveries over safety concerns

German military refuses new A400M deliveries over safety concerns

The Bundeswehr, the German military, announced it would not accept deliveries of two A400M Atlas transport aircraft due ...

Defense
Two German Eurofighter jets collide in training, one pilot dead

Two German Eurofighter jets collide in training, one pilot dead

Two Eurofighter EF-2000s of the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force, collided during a training mission. While both pilots m ...

Defense
German government places firm order for three ACJ350 XWB

German government places firm order for three ACJ350 XWB

Germany placed a firm order for three ACJ350-900 XWB and thus became the first government customer of this type of aircr ...

Defense
German government to buy three new Airbus A350 for €1.2 billion

German government to buy three new Airbus A350 for €1.2 billion

The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approved the acquisition of three new Airbus A350s on April 11, 2019, to re ...

Defense
German foreign minister stuck in Mali due to plane breakdown

German foreign minister stuck in Mali due to plane breakdown

Yet another incident affected the German governmental fleet: Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas was stuck ...

Defense
After mishaps series, Germany to acquire new governmental plane

After mishaps series, Germany to acquire new governmental plane

After the recent failure of the plane that was supposed to take Angela Merkel to the G20 summit in Argentina, the German ...