The Belgian Armed Forces have announced plans to deploy members of the Chasseurs Ardennais battalion to join the multinational NATO battalion in Estonia in 2019. According to News.err.ee, Belgium will send to Estonia approximately 200 members of the Chasseurs Ardennais battalion equipped with infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), SPIKE anti-tank missiles, and 120mm mortars, and complete with a combat engineer and […]

 U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa has announced that F-22 Raptor aircraft arrived at Kleine Brogel Air Base, Belgium today from RAF Lakenheath, England, to conduct local training with the Belgian air force. The F-22s are deployed from the 27th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Wing, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. and arrived in […]

The US State Department approved a potential Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Belgium of 34 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Conventional Take Off and Landing aircraft. According to the U.S. State Department, the estimated total of the proposed deal is $6.53 billion. The Government of Belgium has requested to buy 34  Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike […]

Belgian F-16 fighters intercepted two Russian Air Force Su-27 jets and a cargo aircraft over the Baltic Sea during an air-policing mission, NATO said on Wednesday. On the afternoon of September 5, 2017, a NATO radar picked up two Russian Federation Air Force fighter jets leaving Kaliningrad airspace heading north in international airspace. The military […]

The Belgian Armed Forces publicly displayed its recently received Fox Rapid Reaction Vehicle during a military parade on 21 Jule. The Fox Rapid Reaction Vehicle (RRV) has been designed by Jankel with enhanced weight carrying capacity, internal CH-47 air transportability and increased off-road agility to push the boundaries of payload, mobility and performance. Fox is built on […]

Major General Pierre Neirinckx Medical Component Commander of Belgian Armed Forces inspecting an improved version of DINGO 2 armored ambulance vehicles on Thursday 22 June in Marche-en-Famenne. The Dingo ambulance will change somewhat in the near future. The vehicles retain the same appearance, but the division and use of the sanitary cell have been carefully studied and adapted. […]

Soldiers of the Belgian Armed Forces was arrived in Lithuania by ferry via Klaipėda Seaport. Over 100 troops with their weaponry and roughly 50 vehicles are the forward logistical group for the arrival of the rest of the NATO enhanced forward presence battalion deployed in Lithuania as of this year. The group is mainly formed by […]

Belgium has ordered 108 Fox 4×4 Rapid Reaction Vehicles (RRVs) from Jankel and first prototype of the new FOX vehicle for Special Forces Group was unveiled by Belgian Minister of Defense Steven Vandeput. That reported by armyrecognition.com. The FOX vehicle is designed and manufactured by the British Company Jankel based on a 4×4 Toyota LandCruiser 79 chassis. For Belgium, […]

The Belgian Air Force has begun the acquisition of bombs for more planes, small size (approximately 125 kg instead of the double for the ammunition usually dropped in recent operations, as in Iraq), but she will have in principle only towards the At the end of 2017, partly because of the duration of the deliveries. Belgian […]

The government of Belgium delivered 50 M113  tracked armored personnel carrier to Indonesia. The 50 unit of  M113  tracked armored personnel carrier  had arrived from Belgium by sea to the port of Indonesia in May. In a gesture of goodwill, Belgium  has decided to provide total  150 M113  tracked armored personnel carrier to Indonesia as a gift. The M113 is […]