Portugal deploys 4 F-16s to Romania

Four F-16s from the Portuguese Air Force have been in Romania since Sept. 18 for exercise Falcon Defense 2017.

Portuguese Navy - first Frontex mission in Italy

Airbus Achieves Automatic Air to Air Refuelling Contact

Airbus Defence and Space has successfully demonstrated automatic air-to-air refuelling (AAR) contacts with a fighter aircraft from a tanker’s refuelling boom – the first time in the world that this has been done.

Portuguese Air Force - Dedication, Effort and courage

Portugal's debt

Abracadabra, where did this come from?
One by one, all will fall.

Euro won't last beyond 2017-18. Plan accordingly

Portuguese Navy - Arrival of the NRP Viana do Castelo the TRITON operation

Viana do Castelo patrol in the control of illegal immigration in southern Italy
The ocean patrol CASTLE VIANA operated in the central Mediterranean, 02-30 November participating in the mission TRITON 2014, the FRONTEX agency within the European Union, control of migration flows from North Africa.

Portuguese Air Force rescue performs to 1800 KMs away

Was successfully performed the rescue of a crew member of an American flag sailboat, sailing about 1800 Kms of the island of São Miguel, the last day November 29, 2014.

Portuguese Air Force on the Baltic Air Policing mission in Lithuania

The Chief of the Air Staff (CEMFA), General Antonio José de Magalhães Araujo Pinheiro, visited on 23 and 24 October the detachment of the Portuguese Air Force in the Baltic Air Policing mission, taking place from Lithuania.

Portuguese Air Force - SHARPEYE14 drone

Portuguese Air Force medical evacuation MEDICAL EVACUATION

Portuguese Air Force during Baltic Air Policing, Lithuania

Video shot inside an F-16 Portuguese Air Force, during a ceremony in airfare handover of the blocks 35 to 36 of the Baltic Air Policing, Lithuania

Portugal to induct Harpoon Block II for submarines in 2014

The Portuguese Navy (Marinha Portuguesa) is planning to introduce the UGM-84 Sub-Harpoon Block II missile later this year to equip its two Type 214 (locally known as Type 209PN) Tridente-class attack submarines NRP Tridente (S 160) and NRP Arpão (S 161).Eight Portuguese Navy RGM-84 Block I surface-launched anti-ship missiles are being adapted into Block II weapons in Den Helder, the Netherlands, with the installation of upgrade kits supplied by Boeing, the missile's original equipment manufacturer. Upgrade of the first missile was completed on schedule at the end of 2013; the navy plans to formally induct the updated UGM-84 missile into service in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Portugal also purchased eight capsules and associated containers in 2009 under its Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LoA) agreement with the United States.In mid-2012, Tridente carried out sea trials at the US Navy's (USN's) Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, where it fired several capsules to qualify both the missile launch procedure, and integration with the weapon system's fire control unit and other submarine systems.The diesel-electric/air-independent propulsion submarines were delivered with the Advanced Harpoon Weapon Control System (AHWCS) fitted. Alongside active radar guidance for the prosecution of anti-ship targets, the Block II introduces GPS-aided inertial navigation to provide a land attack capability against fixed targets.

Along with the missiles, the boats' eight 533 mm torpedo tubes are capable of firing Black Shark heavyweight torpedoes, 24 of which were purchased in March 2005 from Whitehead Alenia Sisteími Subacquei (WASS) under a EUR46.2 million (USD63.3 million) contract.Intended to replace the Albacore-class Daphné boats, Tridente and Arpão were commissioned in June and December 2010 respectively. The vessels were acquired in April 2004 for EUR833 million by the Portuguese procurement agency (DGAIED) from what is known today as ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS).


http://www.janes.com/article/38456/portugal-to-induct-harpoon-block-ii-for-submarines-in-2014

Portuguese navy’s drone launch ends in embarrassing fail

NATO ? :)




The Portuguese navy unveiled its new state-of-the-art surveillance drone this week, but things didn’t exactly go to plan.

It was launched in front of the nation’s media and Portugal’s defence minister at a Lisbon naval base, with disastrous results.‘It will be highly effective in missions the navy has to fulfil,’ declared minister José Pedro Aguiar-Branco before the demonstration.