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Nouvelle étape de l'histoire de la coopération militaire entre @defense_lu & @BelgiumDefence!
La signature d'un arrangement technique, avec mon homologue @DedonderLudivin, avance la réalisation de notre projet commun du bataillon binational de reconnaissance. #WeAreNATO 🫡 pic.twitter.com/eXOry72Y8a

— Yuriko Backes (@Yuriko_Backes) February 20, 2024

Fleet#Complete: today Ministers of Defence of Luxembourg @Yuriko_Backes and Belgium @DedonderLudivin received the 8th and last A400M plane of our binational fleet. Another important milestone of the close military cooperation between Luxembourg Defence & @BelgiumDefence. pic.twitter.com/QprjEUDxjw

— Direction de la défense (@Defense_lu) February 20, 2024

The @BeAirForce received their final #A400M. This new aircraft is going to be based in Melsbroek , where Belgium and Luxembourg will from now on operate eight A400Ms together - a prime example of European cooperation. If you want to learn more about the experience of the… pic.twitter.com/w5ag0PXRip

— Airbus Defence (@AirbusDefence) February 20, 2024

"L’achat de F-35 supplémentaires va à l’encontre de ce que je mets en place comme politique et de ce qu’on dit aujourd’hui dans le but de renforcer la base industrielle européenne.

Moi, je me suis inscrite dans la dynamique du #SCAF." @DedonderLudivin https://t.co/rAig3aX5QC

— OpexNews (@OpexNews) March 3, 2024

The Belgian Air Force is helping #BFAST with the air transport of humanitarian supplies to the #Gaza Strip. Our #A400M transport plane left Jordan today to drop the first pallets of food and water for those in need.#Airdrop #humanitarian_aid
DGStratcom pic.twitter.com/eOBtXD4BfW

— Belgian Air Force (@BeAirForce) March 7, 2024

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Directorate of Defence

Visite du binational #A400M par SM le Roi des Belges et S.A.R. le Grand-Duc de Luxembourg, ainsi que par la Ministre de la Défense, Yuriko Backes.
L’unité fait partie de la 15e Escadre de transport aérien de la Force aérienne belge à Melsbroek.
Un projet phare et un modèle de coopération militaire. En février 2024, l’Unité a fêté son #FleetComplete, avec la réception du 8ème et dernier avion A400M.
Au cours des prochaines années, la Belgique et le Luxembourg approfondiront leur coopération et la porteront à de nouveaux sommets avec la création d’un bataillon
moyen de reconnaissance de combat binational.  

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LAST UPDATED: 16 MAY 2024



First flight Belgian Air Force F-35A

On 14 May 2024, an F-35A Lightning II of the Belgische Luchtmacht (BLu, Belgian Air Force) completed its first flight.

The aircraft, serial FL003 (c/n AY-03), was adorned with full colour flag and roundels. It is not known yet if all Belgian Air Force F-35As will have the full colour national markings.

Contrary to the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu, Royal Netherlands Air Force) F-35As, the Belgian Lightning IIs will all be completed in the US with only the central wings and outer wing boxes constructed at the FACO facility in Cameri (Italy).

The first four F-35As will be delivered to Luke AFB (AZ) where they will join 312th Fighter Squadron, part of the 56th Fighter Wing. This squadron was inactivated in 1991, but reactivated on 1 June 2023 as an F-35A training unit, primarily training F-35 crew for the Belgian Air Force.

The remaining thirty aircraft will be based at Kleine Brogel and Florennes air bases. However, the latter will not see the first aircraft arriving before April 2025 and Kleine Brogel will have to wait until 2027.

Credit photo: Lockheed Martin


https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/first-flight-belgian-air-force-f-35a