Russia's MS-28 Progress resupply mission is on course for an automated docking with the ISS early Aug. 17 following an Aug. 15 launch atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket.
France joins Croatia, Greece, Portugal and Spain in acquiring the firefighting aircraft, which the European Commission is partly funding through its RescEU program.
The South African Air Force (SAAF) has been subject to increasingly heavy budget cuts. It is therefore having to do a lot with a little, particularly in terms of its responsibilities to its broader African peacekeeping responsibilities.
Bulgaria operates one of the smallest military aircraft fleets in Europe, but the modernization of key capabilities is underway to respond to the worsening security situation in Eastern Europe and in the Black Sea.