A Nigerian Air Force (NAF)  air plane crashed at about 6.45am on Saturday at the old Nigeria Defense Academy (NDA) in Kaduna.
The site of the crash is also called Ribadu Cantonment.‎ The seven occupant including crew members are believed to have died in the crash, Daily Trust has gathered.

The plane which fell between two houses in the Cantonment, consumed one of the houses as it went up in flames on impact. The plane, Dornier 2K was on a routine mission to Abuja from Kaduna, Daily Trust learnt. The site of the crash has been cordoned off by military personnel who stopped people from getting close.

Spokesperson of 1 Division headquarters of the  Nigerian Army, Colonel Abdul Usman confirmed the incident and the number of casualties.

So it more like a military outpost?

Is it anchored down and permanently at that location?
Or it can be move, or have some mobility to it?

What's are its inventory?
How well is it defended?

What about AV 8 is it still going on ?
last Defence show there's rumour that still unable to pass prototype phase

guys, just saw the parade footage and saw that the flag has enter the parade ground upside down. Please correct me if i'm wrong, but dont upside down flag is the signal of distress?

that is the correct way carrying the flag

malaysia flag the correct way

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Actually is there good or promising news coming out of the meeting?

Regarding first win 4x4 av-4,  is it exclusive use by TDM only?

Several business representatives from French defense industry will be part of the delegation that will be accompanying Minister of Defense Jean-Yves Le Drian during his visit to Malaysia on August 31st and September 1.

Representatives from Dassault Aviation, Thales, Safran, DCNS, DCI, MBDA will be part of the delegation along with 10 members of Parliament, among them Jean-Pierre Raffarin, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces Committee and former Prime Minister, and Patricia Adam, chairman of the National Assembly Defense and Armed Forces Committee, French Embassy in Kuala Lumpur said last Thursday.

Mr. Le Drian is scheduled to meet with Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. He will also co-chair the French-Malaysian Defense Joint High Strategic Committee with his Malaysian counterpart Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.

u mean it will be under-utilized..??

AFAIK ATM dun have that kind of 'luxury' with almost all of their asset

most of ATM asset right now especially Navy asset is always over-utilized..

i just worry that this Mistral also will be over-utilized IF gomen really bought it

KKTV 11 News learned from Fort Carson that a Black Hawk helicopter made a hard landing in Douglas County.

The helicopter crashed in a heavily wooded area. Our sister station in Denver says this is happening in an area five miles west of Perry Park near Devil’s Head. Multiple crews are on scene.

Fort Carson is confirming that two soldiers were injured in that Black Hawk helicopter crash in Douglas County this afternoon. Right now, we don't know the extent of their injuries.

Four soldiers were on board the helicopter. They were on a routine training mission on U.S. Forest Service land in Douglas County around 4:30 this afternoon, when the helicopter went down.

The soldiers are part of the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division.

The cause of the accident is still under investigation.

Pul-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): A helicopter made an emergency landing in central Logar province before noon on Thursday, a local official said.

Several people were wounded in the incident that happened in Azra district at 10am, the governor’s spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News.

One service member was killed and as many as 10 others were injured when a U.S. Marines helicopter had a hard landing Wednesday night at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, the Marine Corps said.

A CH-53E helicopter made the landing at about 9 p.m. during a training exercise, the Marine Corps said. Further details weren't immediately available.

Seven service members were treated at a hospital at Camp Lejeune; one was admitted and was in stable condition, while the others were scheduled for release, according to the Marine Corps.

Three others were taken to a different hospital and were in stable condition, the service said.

The incident is under investigation.

ISLAMABAD: An F-7 training aircraft of the Pakistan Airforce (PAF) has crashed near Mastung area of Balochistan province, a PAF spokesperson said on Wednesday.

No loss of life took place because of the accident, as the pilot was able to safely evacuate from the aircraft, which was destroyed from the crash, said the spokesman.

The aircraft was on regular training flight when it crashed. The PAF spokesman said that an inquiry board has been formed to find out the reasons for the accident.

A helicopter from the Emergency Military Unit (UME) has crashed Thursday at the Requena airfield, no injury recorded to any occupants of the helicopter, as reported by the Valencian Generalitat.

The helicopter, a HU-27 Cougar, belongs to the EMU emergency at the base of Bétera. The unit has not specified external medical personnel and firefighters, except for agents of the Guardia Civil "to guard the wreckage and the subsequent investigation into the causes of the accident," according to the Emergency Service of the Valencian Government.

Saudi Arabia’s military blamed a “technical error” for a helicopter crash that killed a pilot during a training mission on Sunday.

The air force machine went down in the Taif area, more than 800 kilometers (500 miles) from the border with Yemen.

A defense ministry statement said the pilot was on a “routine training trip.”

Since March 26, a Saudi-led Arab air coalition has been bombing Iran-backed Houthi militia group in Yemen, while also assisting local anti-rebel forces on the ground.

Coalition helicopters have joined the fight.

In late August, two pilots died when a coalition Apache gunship crashed in Saudi Arabia’s Jazan district along the border.

SHAH ALAM: More details have emerged of the Starstreak SAM deal which was signed in July at the current DSEI show in London.

It appears that we bought the same set-up as the Indonesian armed forces back in 2014, though it is likely that the numbers between the two services may vary. No word on the cost for the Malaysian deal however. The Indonesian one reportedly costs 100 million pounds or RM680 million.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) will deploy its commandos onboard government-linked companies' cargo vessels soon to deter piracy activities in Malaysian waters.

Maritime Criminal Investigation division director First Admiral Datuk Zulkifli Abu Bakar said the deployment of commandos from MMEA's Special Task and Rescue (Star) will be made based on threat assessment analysis.

"This initiative has been discussed with the management of GLC shipping companies, where they agreed to have our commandos onboard their randomly selected vessels.

"Each operation will involve a unit of at least four armed commandos," he said during a press conference at a hotel, here, earlier today. Zulkifli said they are in the final stage of planning and preparation, and the operation will start "very soon".

It was understood that the latest initiative was a part of the agency's plan in combating piracy activities in Malaysian territory following recent incidents which saw several cargo vessels, including GLC-owned MT Orkim Harmony, hijacked by pirates.

On Monday evening, a Syrian Arab Air Force (SAAF) helicopter suddenly crashed near the Palestinian “Nayrab Refugee Camp” after coming under heavy gunfire from the Syrian Al-Qaeda group “Jabhat Al-Nusra” and Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham during its take-off at this area in the Aleppo Governorate’s southeastern countryside.

According to a military source in Aleppo, the aircraft was carrying medical supplies, food, clothing, and other provisions for the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers that under the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham’s (ISIS) brutal siege at the Kuweries Military Airport in southeast Aleppo.

The military source added that the pilot and his crew were all also killed by the impact of the crash; this aerial disaster marks the second time in two months that a Syrian Air Force helicopter has crashed outside of Aleppo City.