Belgian Air force to sell its White Fleet

under the defence reforms, it was decided to dismantle the White Fleet of the Air Component and replace the VIP/VVIP flights with chartered civilian bizjets.
this means the fleet of 2 Embraer ERJ-135, 2 ERJ-145 and 1 Dassault Falcon 900B will possibly be put up for sale.

Economical returns on Belgian Rafale offer could turn out to be “an empty box”.

in its most recent offer, the DGA stated that if Belgium invests 4Bln in Rafale fighters, it would get 20Bln in return as part of economical compensations.
the Belgian MoD and government officials believe this to be an economical blackmail, as the country is already guaranteed to get those compensations through other commited aviation projects it is takeing part off (A400M, Airbus Airliners, Falcon…).

the MoD is stating that the offer is similar to getting an empty box.

no official newslink yet, but Belgium is retiring the first of C-130H this morning.
CH-08 is currently performing its last flight.

France denies Dassault’s withdraw from Belgian Fighter tender, Rafale still in!

Brazilian Navy makes moves towards potential new Gripen maritime fighters

i thought they retired the Sao Paolo and didnt have the money for a new carrier.
if they intend to use land-based fighters, it doesnt make sense to buy a carrier based fighter.

Tango III

US Clears $366M Sale of C-17 Transport to India.

Government of India – C-17 Transport Aircraft

i thought the C-17 production was closed about 2 years ago?

Belgian C-130H fleet grounded

the article is quite cryptic, as i read, there have been technical difficulties with the flight controls with multiple aircraft, the fleet has been grounded for the past 2 weeks pending investigation.

Iran’s Qaher-313 (F-313) is back!